The GameCube/Wii emulator Dolphin, which has been in open source development since 2008 (and around since 2003) only recently reached the milestone of being able to boot every single GameCube game. Understanding the ins and outs of a piece of hardware as complex as the Wii U is a process that can take years.

I was actually very surprised to see it running this good with no extra work required,' Exzap wrote. 'The game pretty much ran this way out of the box after the few issues were resolved that prevented it from going in-game. Surprisingly, it took only a few hours to get Breath of the Wild to boot in Cemu-it didn't take a lot of specialized work to make it run at the most basic level in the emulator. I reached out to Exzap to find out how much work it took to get Breath of the Wild to work in Cemu, how he did it so quickly, and how long the road to full compatibility will be. My dreams of emulating Breath of the Wild at 4K, 60 fps? Not exactly crushed, but most definitely delayed. Essentially it's impossible to leave the tutorial area without using a save.' Physic glitches, rune abilities that require object selection don't work, no water collision, etc. 'Lots of bugs that make the game unplayable.

'Audio is muted because it is just white noise,' Exzap wrote on reddit. Emulating a console is an incredibly complex process, and throwing more horsepower at the game won't be enough to make it run smoothly. The bad news is that 'running' and 'playable' are very different things, and Breath of the Wild is crawling along at about 10-15 frames per second in Exzap's video.

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