Next CEMU release (Patreon)

we'll answer the burning question of "When is the next CEMU release?" right away: CEMU 1.5.2 will be released this Thursday for $5+ Patrons and for everyone else a week later.

What's new in CEMU 1.5.2:

For the past two weeks, we have been busy with implementing the remaining texture features. The biggest change is that CEMU 1.5.2 will support mip-mapping, a feature that is used in every 3D game.

Take a look at this comparision screenshot. Without mip-mapping, textures in the distance look noisy. With mip-mapping now working textures get gradually more blurred the further away they are from the camera. Here is another screenshot from Super Mario 3D World where the effect is more subtle.

Graphics aside, for 1.5.2 we further worked on improving compatibility and as always, fixed a few bugs. It's worth mentioning that compatibility improvement is by far the most time consuming task when it comes to CEMU's development. It can easily take 100-200 hours to figure out why a single game does not work as intended. But once the mystery is solved it can be very rewarding to see the result.

Indie games help debugging

Generally, when trying to locate and fix bugs, the simpler the game, the better. If we can isolate the problem, it becomes straight forward to find and fix the culprit. And as an added bonus, due to the nature of emulators, the same issue will be resolved in other games as well.

Ever tried Super Meat Boy in CEMU 1.5.1? It looked like this:

In 1.5.2 it's pretty much 100% playable with only minor issues:

That's it for this rather short update post. Recently, we have been thinking about if there is any way that we can post more regularly. Since we are such a small team we lack the capacity to write big progress reports (well, we can, but it would distract from development). So instead, we'll probably do something like weekly screenshots or small but more frequent updates as an alternative. Let's see how that turns out and thanks again for all of your support!

PS: While we would ask you to please not repost this text somewhere else, all images in the text above can be shared and discussed outside of Patreon.