Cemu 2.1 Emulator Released With Flatpaks & AppImage For Linux, Initial Wayland Support

Cemu is the Wii U emulator that went open-source and began building on Linux two years ago. Since then they've continued building up their Linux support and out today is the Cemu 2.1 emulator release with even better Linux support.

With the Cemu 2.1 release they have incorporated changes from 93 experimental releases carried out since Cemu 2.0. For Linux users Cemu 2.1 brings now AppImage and Flatpak releases for convenient Cemu binaries for Linux gamers.

In addition to the Flatpak and AppImage binaries for Linux users, Cemu 2.1 also brings a tool to emulate USB portals for Skylanders and Disney Infinity, support for games within the Wii U Homebrew and NUS formats, support for the Pretendo network services, initial support for title switching, experimental GamePad microphone support, and many other updates.

Cemu 2.1 also provides initial Wayland support, better handling for case sensitive file-systems, an option to enable GameMode handling, DSU controller support, and many bug fixes. Cemu 2.1 also brings Vulkan improvements including async shader compilation being enabled by default.

Downloads and more details on the many Cemu 2.1 features and improvements via GitHub.