A new version of the Cemu emulator, version 1.11.5, has been released to Patreon backers this week, and reports suggest that the emulator brings significant performance improvements for Zelda Breath of the Wild, among other games.

　　The Breath of the Wild performance improvements are showcased in a new video shared by BSoD Gaming. Performance improvements over the previous Cemu version are in the range of 5 - 10 FPS, which is a huge difference.

　　Cemu 1.11.5 brings other changes outside of emulation improvements, such as support for emulating Wiimote controllers using keyboard and USB controllers and more. Catch the full patch notes below.

　　general: Updated game profiles

　　general: Added more logging options and cleaned up logging menu a bit

　　general: Enabling online mode now requires all ccert/scert files

　　input: Added support for emulating Wiimote controllers using keyboard/usb-controllers (no native support yet!)

　　input: Reworked the input settings window to open a lot faster

　　coreinit: Fixed MEMAllocFromExpHeapEx not handling negative alignment correctly

　　coreinit: Fixed MEMGetAllocatableSizeForExpHeapEx sometimes returning the wrong size

　　coreinit: Added API MEMCreateUserHeapHandle(), OSCopyFromClipboard()

　　coreinit: Fixed a potential crash in FSReadFile/FSReadFileAsync when the specified length is zero

　　AX: Rewrote snd_core2 audio driver

　　AX: Added snd_core1 API AXGetMaxVoices(), AXSetVoiceSamplesAddr()

　　GX2: Reduced shader compile time and RAM usage for Nvidia GPUs

　　GX2: Added support for creating cube-map views into 2D array textures

　　GX2: Added support for more vertex attribute formats

　　swkbd: Added support for Unicode input + some minor tweaks

　　nlibcurl: Fixed a crash bug in curl_multi_perform

　　Cemu 1.1.15 is now available only for Patreon backers. It will be released to the public this week, on March 3rd.