HI! I wanted to ask if there are any plans about porting CEMU (Wii U emulator) to libretro 
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We can’t do it, since it’s not open source. If the Cemu team wanted to make a libretro core, we would welcome it, of course.
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Ops, I didn’t know their code wasn’t open source, sorry D:
Reviving this thread, since Cemu has been made open-source recently.
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We don’t have any plans for it currently, but now that it’s open source, it’s actually a reasonable possibility. I haven’t personally even looked at the codebase to see if the emulation part is easily separated from the interface/UI part, which is another common sticking point, or if it plays nicely with our frame-based pacing (we can work around this but it’s a significant complication).
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I would love Wii U Support and an option to display the gamepad on a separate monitor.
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Please, let us know about any news of Cemu core!
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Ain’t cemu open source now? I can smell that retro arch is gonna have their core sooner or later but for now its just using the standalone cemu emulator.
Being open source is a good first step, but creating a working core is an entirely different issue. After all, code availability and cross compatibility are different concepts.
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There are a lot of emulators that are open source and haven’t been ported in RA.
Supermodel is the most well known for older RA users because it was promised a long time ago and then it vanished.
There are also others like Ares and it’s N64 core, which is the most accurate N64 emulator. There’s even a bizhawk port for it but not for RA.
Being open source is only a small part of the puzzle it seems. It doesn’t mean you will see it in RA.
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The main requirement for any porting is finding someone who is interested, or paying someone who isn’t.
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