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Mednafen VS Cemu

Compare Mednafen VS Cemu and see what are their differences

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Mednafen logo Mednafen

Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system...

Cemu logo Cemu

Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC.
  • Mednafen Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-11-05
  • Cemu Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-06-19

Mednafen videos

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Ps1 emulation with Mednafen. It's great.

More videos:

  • Tutorial - How To Run Sega Saturn Games With Mednafen - Best Saturn Emulator
  • Tutorial - The Best PlayStation 1 Emulator - How To Setup Mednafen

Cemu videos

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12 FULLY Playable CEMU Games! (Wii U Emulator) 2020

More videos:

  • Tutorial - Nintendo Wii U emulator for PC: Cemu (install guide: setup / config / tutorial)
  • Review - Cemu Full Setup Guide Easy to Follow

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Mednafen and Cemu)

Mednafen

Cemu

Gaming
52 52%
Gaming
48% 48
Emulators
53 53%
Emulators
47% 47
Gaming Tools
58 58%
Gaming Tools
42% 42
Gaming Software
100 100%
Gaming Software
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Cemu should be more popular than Mednafen. It has been mentiond 39 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Mednafen mentions (12)

  • I don't know what devil magic was used to accomplish this but Goldeneye32x managed to make a PC port of Rondo of Blood. And yes, it is fully functional, i played it. The link to the game is in the description of the video
    I mean, the game's program icon gives it away. It's a custom wrapper using an older version of Mednafen. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Resources that will help you out with replaying old games.
    Mednafen with a frontend like Mednaffe are a great option for the NES, SNES, and a bunch of other 80s & early-90s systems (Genesis, Playstation 1, Saturn, etc.). Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Some questions about Playstation 1 emulator
    Duckstation and Mednafen. Mednafen is the closest to 100% game accuracy; Duckstation is Mednafen but with added graphical enhancements and quality of life features. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • To prep for March 4, I got in some practice laps on the original
    Both use "cores" to emulate various platforms, and in this case, they both use Mednafen for their PS1 core, which can also work as a standalone emulator if you are comfortable with the command line. Source: about 2 years ago
  • Sega Saturn core plays runs better when the RetroArch menu is pulled up, but unplayable when playing normally. Can somebody help me?
    I switched directly to Mednafen (https://mednafen.github.io/) using the Mednaffe GUI (https://github.com/AmatCoder/mednaffe) and it's been smoothing sailing ever since. Source: over 2 years ago
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Cemu mentions (39)

  • Backing up cemu for use on new windows installation
    You'll have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 X64 Redistributable: vc_redist.x64.exe from http://cemu.info/ again, but yeah, thats it. If you have any change to the cemu.exe file you'll have to also do it again. Source: 11 months ago
  • Wii U USB Helper Emulation Download Error
    You download Cemu yourself from https://cemu.info and follow the Cemu setup guide from https://cemu.cfw.guide/. Source: 11 months ago
  • Who exactly is this? Just bought the Game.
    If you hop on over to r/roms though they have a pinned megathread which links to trusted sources (often on a site as reputable as archive.org). Grab the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U Edition .wua from here and run it on CEMU instead of trying to locate the PS3 version. Wii U emulation is much further along so this will run better anyway and CEMU doesn't require additional BIOS for setup iirc. Source: 11 months ago
  • How to not get a computer virus?
    CEMU has an official site you download the emulator from: https://cemu.info/. Source: about 1 year ago
  • I've only seen good things online, but I get horrible performance in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
    Using latest Stable (1.26.2f from https://cemu.info/), in Desktop mode, Options > Graphics API set to Vulkan, Async Compile enabled, vs 3 CPU, it's 60FPS like 99%+ of the time, with a slight hitch now and then when something 'new' is loaded/shown. Source: about 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Mednafen and Cemu, you can also consider the following products

RetroArch - RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players.

Yuzu - An experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch

ePSXe - ePSXe (enhanced PSX emulator) is an emulator of the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC...

Dolphin Emulator - Official website of Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator. Download the latest version (5. 0-5763) now or ask questions on our forums for help. Enter your search in the box aboveDownloadDownload the latest version of the Dolphin Emulator (5.

OpenEmu - Console and Arcade video game emulator for macOS.

VisualBoyAdvance - VisualBoyAdvance (VBA) is a free software (GNU GPL) emulator targeted for the Game Boy, Super Game...

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