October News (Patreon)

today we will share some news about the upcoming Cemu release 1.11.0.

This update is scheduled to release tomorrow evening, on 24th October CET.

Here is a list of significant changes that will make it into 1.11.0: 

• Native online play
• Use account and mii data from dumped account.dat (optional)
• Fixed audio related crashes introduced in 1.10.0
• Rework of more Cafe OS libraries for better accuracy (saves, memory management, account handling)
• Recompiler and interpreter bug fixes
• Various input bug fixes
• Graphic improvements (Mostly Splatoon is affected)
• Installation of game updates and DLCs via Cemu's UI
• Several new game profile options (see detailed changelog when it releases)
• Minor optimizations (3-7% faster vs 1.10.0)

The previous version focused on an accurate implementation of the audio library. As we already explained there, implementing the sound driver functions as accurately as possible helped us to fix otherwise unapproachable problems. Consequently we started to look into other parts of the emulator to see which components would require a similar rework as well. We decided that it was best to rework the Cafe OS libraries for saves, memory management and account handling. While those aren't something that directly affects the user (you can hear sound, but you can't see if our memory management is better) we hope that those improvements will lead to a higher compatibility.

Online play

As we already announced a while ago, the next Cemu release will support native online play. (Not the same as netplay. Native online play means you can play on official servers like on a real console.)

This online functionality is not complete yet and has some limitations. Future updates will improve online support and more and more games should be compatible.

As a start, the following popular games are confirmed to be working online:

• Splatoon
• Mario Kart 8
• Super Smash Bros

What doesn't work yet: Friend list, Miiverse, Super Mario Maker (since it uses something like a Miiverse 2.0)

The requirements for online play

The security on official servers is pretty tight. Therefore Cemu needs several files from a real console in order to be able to connect online. Some of those files are unique per console and are signed by Nintendo. Therefore the only way to acquire those files is by dumping them from your own Wii U.

We wrote a preliminary guide to get you started: Click here

Some game specific news

In Cemu 1.11.0 Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is finally booting. It's not really playable yet, unless you like to suffer through flickering and crashes. But still, going from 'not booting at all' to 'ingame' is quite a large step. And it only took 2 years and more than a hundred hours of debugging!

MH3U preview video

We only tested MH3U v1.2 EU so far. It also needs a save or else it won't boot.