After years of speculations ever since the source code for the popular Wii U emulator, Cemu, became open source back in August 2022 with their v2.0 release, users began wondering when would Cemu become available for other devices or systems, like Linux or Android.
This week, a user by the name of XForYouX on GitHub released an unofficial port of Cemu for Android devices on September 7th, 2024, based on the initial Android port by SSimco, with promising results, albeit with some slight graphical issues. The unofficial port supports Android devices from 11 and onwards, while any device running Android 10 and below is currently unsupported.
The number of changes for this specific port is quite substantial, and from the release page on the Github repository the following changes were made over the official Cemu version:
- Implement DCBZ
- Update xbyak
- Update recompiler tests
- Update xbyak dep
- Add x64 check for ATTR_MS_ABI
- Cleanup code
- Update deprecated attribute
- Send touch events to Input manager
- Fixed gamepad volume enable/disable toggle
- Fix count cycles macro for count cycles > 4095
- Updated overlay settings
- Added options to show the gamepad & added a menu when in game
- Added option to show graphic packs for installed games only
- Fixed not being able to resize some buttons
- Added support for motion
- Updated icon
- Refactored game list code & added option to remove & add multiple game paths
- Removed unused icon
- Refactored fileutils code
- Updated android workflow to create storefile only if the secret is available
It's still unknown whether or not the official Cemu development team would implement this specific Android port fork into their mainstream source code, although the Cemu team did release an FAQ some time ago regarding an Android port.
Unofficial Cemu Android GitHub repository Official Cemu GitHub repository
