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An update in 2017 even added the ability to access the Wii’s eshop Channel.Įven on the Nintendo Wii U hardware, we enjoyed Mario Kart 8, calling the graphics absolutely gorgeous. Dolphin is more widely known with its support for both the GameCube and Nintendo Wii game library. People have even emulated the original Game Boy on the Apple Watch.įor more modern game consoles, these emulators require more power than a smartphone or smartwatch. Every system from Nintendo has a well-working emulator matching and sometimes even surpassing the original console’s performance. Even at standard 1080p, the improved textures and anti-aliasing do a lot to increase the overall image quality.Įmulating games is nothing new, especially when it comes to Nintendo classics. Mario Kart 8 marks the first entry with support for 8K. However, these packs are only available to a handful of games. Previous 4K graphic packs include options to configure anti-aliasing, resolution, shadow quality, post-processing, the level of lighting effects, and more.
The biggest benefit for emulating Wii U titles comes down to improved textures and anti-aliasing. The drop in resolution is handy since the maximum playback resolution of YouTube is 4K anyway, as long as the internet is fast enough to render it.
These specs were able to run Mario Kart 8 at full 8K, but the footage was then sampled down to 4K or 3,840 pixels wide by 2,160 pixels tall. The PC running the emulations uses an Intel i7-6700k processor with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. In a video posted on YouTube (via Kotaku), Mario Kart 8 is shown running through the latest version of the Cemu emulator, version 1.9.0c. While the game was beautiful at just 1080p, the bump to 8K resolution is unbelievable.Īchieving such a graphics boost is impossible on the Nintendo Wii U, but that does not stop people from emulating the games on a high-performance PC. Thanks to the vibrant color design of Nintendo’s characters, they tend to hold up very well when the resolution is increased.