I played this game a long time ago, and it stands as one of my favorite games to date. I want to play it again, unfortunately I dont have a WiiU or the GamePad anymore. The only emulator I could find for this game was CEMU, but I don't want to download it and be disappointed.
Thanks for any reply!
Posted Aug 31, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC
I'm not by no ways an expert. But don't take Vulkan, you will experience graphic latency and shortcuts with various entities around. I think someone else would be more found to answer your question. Despite this, enjoy!
Emulators are always the same, it depends on your computer, the better it is the better is going to run. Also you may encounter some issues as emulators use to face lots of particular problems (at least for me and many others I have heard). If you really like it and want to play, don't doubt of give it a try, you can always ask for help when facing problems. Another expensive solution is to buy an used WiiU on eBay
Like others have said, it's dependant on your computer, but if you'd like to give it a shot, I made a guide on how to emulate XCX on Cemu. I hope this helps!
Currently following the guide. Game still takes a while even with gigabit.
Imo it's better than the WiiU version.
Better visuals, mods that can make the experience even better (I couldn't play without the mod that removes the fly music) and if you have 2 screens to look at the map while playing the experience is great.
I have a pretty good computer and I played ~100 hours almost flawlessly.
No online
There actually is a way to play online. You need to dump some extra files from your Wii U though. There is a tutorial for this on the CEMU website.
My experience with the cemu version has been good overall. In many ways, the experience has been superior to the Wii U version, but there are some downsides.
For one, cemu's workarounds for a lack of a second screen aren't as convenient as having a gamepad. It also took a lot of configuration to fix all of the bugs that I encountered, but I was using a lot of mods, so your experience will likely be different from mine. While you can go online with cemu, I have not attempted it, so I can't speak for its effectiveness.
Other than those issues, with my setup and some mods I can run the game at 1080p with a fairly stable 60 fps, and it looks and performs better than I remember it being on the Wii U. Honestly, I think the biggest improvement for me is that the load times are only a few seconds, but all of the upsides depend entirely upon how your PC is.
If you have a decent rig and are willing to deal with some graphical issues or take some time to fix them, then I would definitely recommend trying it.
Emulation is very dependent on your PC's strength.
As an aside, based on my recent run emulating this game, having the gamepad as a separate screen definitely felt like a downgrade compared to when I played it on WiiU. I've got a second monitor which alleviates the issue, but is by no means as good an experience.
With that said, the bump in graphical quality (again, dependent on your specs) was 100% worth it for me. Also the ability to remove the blur from overdrive.