Wii U emulator team has huge parts of Zelda: Breath of the Wild working on PC

Nintendo may now make smartphone games, but it is still only launching its biggest products on its own systems. Of course, that hasn’t stopped the emulation scene from bringing it to PC.

Team CEMU, a group of hackers and developers working on a Wii U emulator for PC, has most of the basic functionality of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild up and running. While the CEMU emulator has existed for years, the people responsible for it expected that the new Zelda would need a ton of love before it would really work with the software because of Breath of the Wild’s sheer scale and unprecedented use of the Wii U hardware. But not even a month later, Team CEMU — which has a Patreon page where 5,235 emulation fans pay it $22,317 per month — has the game running, albeit in a stuttery state.