Tutorial Breath of the Wild for Newbies at CEMU. (self.CemuPiracy) Recently, a friend told me that she has no clue about computers but wants to play BotW, so I wanted to help her out, and while doing it I realize that she can't be the one. I'll sort that out for people that just wants to play BotW.
The PC “version” of Breath of the Wildalready looked good with its increased resolution, but thanks to the release of the Clarity FX pack this week for the CEMU emulator, it’s looking out of this world.
If you’re playing the game (the pack is only for BotW) on PC and want to try it out, you can find download and installation instructions here. If you’re not and just want to see how good it all looks, here you go.
The pack does a few things, like increasing the...clarity of objects (especially those at a distance, while also messing with lighting and colours. If you’re looking at that video and thinking some of the effects are a bit too strong, know that they can be adjusted.
These 2K screenshots (click the expand icon on each image to see them at full resolution) might actually do a better job of showcasing the improvements. Notice how you can clearly make out buildings and even trees in the distant background.
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There are some more screens here.
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139 with 76 posters participatingOn standard Nintendo hardware, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild runs at a bare bones HD resolution of 720p, or up to 900p when using the Nintendo Switch in docked mode. Using the power of a Wii U emulator called CEMU, though, devoted coders have now got the game running at a full 4K resolution on a high-end PC.
While the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild has technically been running in CEMU since shortly after its release early last month, version 1.7.4c of the emulator (released just yesterday to Patreon backers and to the public on April 9) fixes most of the outstanding graphical and gameplay issues that prevented the game from being fully playable through emulation. While there are still some issues with bugs and cutscene playback, Breath of the Wild can now be completed through the emulator with most major features intact.
![Wild Wild](https://i.redd.it/0k2n1q62nsky.png)
As the above video shows, the emulated version lets players reset the game's internal resolution up to a full 4K 3840 x 2160 pixels at a steady 30 frames per second. To get the game looking that good, you'll need a decently beefy PC (the video was made with a reported i7 6700k @ 4.3ghz, GTX 1070, and 16GB of RAM) as well as some community-made graphics packs that resample the game's low-res textures to look acceptable when blown up to a higher resolution. You'll also probably need to play with a few GPU and emulator settings to maximize your frame rate—this Reddit thread seems like a good starting point.
Thanks to the high overhead associated with emulating different hardware, most PC-based emulation focuses on game consoles that are one or two generations older than the computer they're running on. But PC-based emulation of contemporary games and consoles in this way isn't completely unheard of. Usable PlayStation and Nintendo 64 emulators started to hit the scene in 1999, when both systems were still popular on retail shelves, for instance. Back then, you could play a decent emulated game of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time just months after its release.While this kind of emulator is definitely legal, and playing your own archival backups is generally safe, Nintendo isn't about to embrace emulation as a way to get the best Breath of the Wild experience. As the company writes on its legal FAQ: 'Distribution of an emulator developed to play illegally copied Nintendo software hurts Nintendo's goodwill, the millions of dollars invested in research & development and marketing by Nintendo and its licensees... Emulators developed to play illegally copied Nintendo software promote piracy. That's like asking why doesn't Nintendo legitimize piracy. It doesn't make any business sense. It's that simple and not open to debate.'
The Breath of the Wild emulation follows on last month's release of a new version of the Wii emulator Dolphin that allows users to access the Wii's online Shop Channel to legitimately purchase and download Wii games through the PC in what is surely a first for PC emulation.Listing image by YouTube / YamGaming