Breath of the Wild Can Run 4K on PC From Start to Finish With New CemU 1.8.1b Update

The Legend of Zelda pirates looking to play on PC should be really happy.

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We aren't a big fan of the CemU Wii U emulator here at Shacknews, despite being a fan of PC games in general. But since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out for the console, CemU has pushed to perfect the game for those trying to stick it to the Nintendo suits for not bringing the game to their beloved platform. The result is a CemU Update 1.8.1b and getting Link in full 4K resolution from the beginning of the game to the end. 

The newest release has made substantial progress since the game was released back on March 3. By March 7, CemU already had the game running on PC, albeit with plenty of hiccups. By early April, CemU had the game running even smoother, now in 4K.  According to a post on NeoGAF, CemU's latest update has made the complete jump to a full 4K experience with little distortion or frame-rate slowdowns. Even the new DLC Pack 1 for the game works well.

While we must give credit for impressive technical prowess, and watching the game play in a full 4K, the emulator scene continues to be a shady area that just skirts Nintendo use rules as a playground for pirates.

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      July 3, 2017 8:12 PM

      Amazing progress

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      July 3, 2017 9:33 PM

      Man if I could move my cartridge to the PC and play it there, I'd totally be doing that. 4K @ 60hz? Yes please.

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        July 3, 2017 9:48 PM

        Zelda runs at 30fps I doubt they can get it running at 60hz without breaking physics and everything else the pc required to do that aside.

        Dolphin which is way more mature and accurate couldn’t do windwaker with 60fps despite some hacks trying to use frame interpolations and other stuff to create the illusion.

        If this one day is optimized enough that doesn’t needs god's personal overclocked cpu, and isnt broken as it is I will totally play this on my pc.

        I did it with windwaker 15 years!? after the gamecube release (and I still have my cube).

        They need to somehow find a way to get the joycons/pro controllers gyro and camera working.
        Gyro aiming is a convenience I do not want to miss. Mayflash or someone needs to get on this.

        Also I kinda hope nintendo gets to release all their big wiiu games on the switch before this interferes with them.

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      July 3, 2017 9:33 PM

      That's cool. That YouTube video is awful though. Get on with it!

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        July 3, 2017 9:45 PM

        Spent way too much time talking about the drama around this. I just want to know how to make it run nicely.

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          July 4, 2017 2:03 PM

          Overclock your cpu as high as possible, get gpufence hack, then if your running a cpu that can execute more than 1 thread per core you need to goto the cpu tab in cemu and set affinity for physical cores only.

          At least thats how I get it playable on my ryzen 1700

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      July 3, 2017 10:22 PM

      If Nintendo wants people to stop emulating their games, they should make their games available on PC. That would increase sales of said games and decrease emulation.

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      July 3, 2017 11:10 PM

      It's bizarre to me that this site chooses to publish these stories when emulation is 99% done through pirating games

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        July 4, 2017 3:03 AM

        Yup totally agree. Maybe we can have some stories about where to download 4k movies next?

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          July 4, 2017 6:33 AM

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            July 4, 2017 9:10 AM

            I'm saying when people look into it they will realise they will need to download a pirate copy of Zelda even they actually own a legitimate copy its actually easier to pirate a version.

            A story saying how good pirated 4k films were would be a comparable story.

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        July 4, 2017 5:42 AM

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        July 4, 2017 5:48 AM

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        July 4, 2017 6:26 AM

        citation needed

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        July 4, 2017 9:04 AM

        While we do not condone piracy of any game, we can look at this technical achievement objectively. This site caters to PC readers, and this is interesting PC gaming news.

        I think we have treated CemU similarly to how we have covered ReVive, the software which allows HTC Vive owners to play Oculus Rift exclusive games.

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        July 4, 2017 10:18 AM

        maybe if it wasnt full of bugs they wouldnt post it because then itd be a legit alternative way to play zelda. right now its a buggy mess its pointless to try

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      July 4, 2017 3:27 AM

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      July 4, 2017 12:24 PM

      Amazing!

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