Cemu

by Cemu · MPL-2.0

92/100how this is calculated

Nintendo Wii U Emulator

Record

Latest version: 2.6
Release date: 06 Feb 2025
Official page: https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu
Package identifier: Cemu.Cemu

Official downloads

These URLs are the ones Cemu declares in its own manifest. We do not proxy or shorten them, and we do not host a copy.

64-bit

zipgithub.com · publisher domain

File name: cemu-2.6-windows-x64.zip

https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu/releases/download/v2.6/cemu-2.6-windows-x64.zip

SHA-256: a6bcc2bc42a362d10213819948f3152fae7d47f70067f25939b51d3ddcfb0896

Verify the file you downloaded

Run this against the file on disk. If the output does not match the hash below, the file is not what Cemu published. Delete it.

Windows · PowerShell

Get-FileHash "cemu-2.6-windows-x64.zip" -Algorithm SHA256

macOS · Linux

shasum -a 256 "cemu-2.6-windows-x64.zip"

Expected output

a6bcc2bc42a362d10213819948f3152fae7d47f70067f25939b51d3ddcfb0896

Got a different hash, or one you cannot place? Paste it into the hash checker and it will tell you which program and version it belongs to, past releases included.

Download Cemu for Mac

The macOS build as Homebrew declares it, with the same treatment as the Windows side: the publisher's own URL and a hash to check it against.

Version on Homebrew: 2.0
File name: CEmu-v2.0_macOS_Qt6_arm.dmg
Download URL: https://github.com/CE-Programming/CEmu/releases/download/v2.0/CEmu-v2.0_macOS_Qt6_arm.dmg
SHA-256: e554ca753f263b2ebba75d36c1e724b5a31b35a24c19bd004c70c59b8135abc8
Install with Homebrew: brew install --cask cemu

How we scored this 92 out of 100

Signal	Finding	Points
SHA-256 hash published	1 of 1 installers ship a SHA-256 hashWithout a published hash there is no way to prove the file you downloaded is the file the publisher built.	30 / 30
Binary provenance	1 on the publisher's own domainThe strongest signal against a repackaged installer: the file should come from the publisher, not from a mirror nobody vouches for.	35 / 35
Served over HTTPS	1 of 1 over HTTPSAn installer fetched over plain HTTP can be modified in transit.	15 / 15
Release recency	last release about 19 months agoSoftware that has not shipped in years accumulates unpatched vulnerabilities.	7 / 15
Licence declared	MPL-2.0A declared licence tells you what you are actually allowed to do with the software.	5 / 5

Is Cemu safe to download?

Yes, in the sense we can actually verify: the installer downloads from github.com, which is a domain we have tied to Cemu.

The installer on this page comes with the SHA-256 Cemu declared, so you do not have to take our word for it: hash the file you downloaded and compare.

What this does not tell you is whether the software itself is any good, or whether you want what it does once installed. A publisher can ship something you would rather not run and the download is still authentic. We answer the question we can measure and leave the other one to you.

If Windows says “Windows protected your PC” when you run it, that is SmartScreen reporting reputation, not a malware verdict — it shows up on perfectly legitimate software from small publishers and on releases that are simply new. The reverse matters more: no warning does not mean the file was checked.

How the 92/100 score is calculated · why the source matters more than the reputation

Install Cemu with winget

Windows ships with a package manager, and this program is in it. The identifier below is the one Microsoft's repository uses, which is also where the download URL and hash on this page come from.

Install

winget install --id Cemu.Cemu --exact

Upgrade later

winget upgrade --id Cemu.Cemu

Why --exact: without it winget matches on name as well as identifier, and a search that returns more than one package makes it stop and ask rather than install. Pinning the identifier is what makes the command safe to put in a script.

Not installing anything, or getting an error back? The commands that actually come up covers upgrading everything at once, what --include-unknown is for, and why winget can be missing from a machine that should have it.

Old versions of Cemu7 with hashes

The version history of Cemu, each release with the download URL the publisher declared at the time and the SHA-256 to check it against. Useful when an update breaks something and you need to downgrade to a build that worked.

We do not host any of these files and never re-upload them, which is the difference between this and an old-version download site.

2.5

released 07 Dec 2024

cemu-2.5-windows-x64.zip64-bitofficial URL
73221D437176903AF317F5D67B16374D3E4485ED6AE5B3A976D26BE69E3F15AB

2.4

released 13 Nov 2024

cemu-2.4-windows-x64.zip64-bitofficial URL
6B688E6896F83E0A95BAA36C87B31CBAA0F2BB962929A0DA86E9D50DFBAC6C5D

2.3

released 01 Nov 2024

cemu-2.3-windows-x64.zip64-bitofficial URL
5F5D1CC74ECFC0977B79ACE46DA7A007E0D45C2CE4EE7B52A34CBEFB4E191161

2.2

released 08 Sept 2024

cemu-2.2-windows-x64.zip64-bitofficial URL
1714873D2CEE992075F006AAA8372CD5532632385AEF4920973DE6E22F5D8EE1

2.1

cemu-2.1-windows-x64.zip64-bitofficial URL
25EFF2E6F410BE792A5EFBB554BBEF565C8BE2C4344C6DC028BC8F6FE357AE0A

2.0

cemu-2.0-windows-x64.zip64-bitofficial URL
660A5461333C9EECAD3065C4C3E891E6C362F6DF05C5E18FC4C36E3D806B6CA4

1.26.2

cemu_1.26.2.zip64-bitofficial URL
B0E3ABF5048F78E352B42C3E1660A2C6E85D6905CD9F60D06CA2F2318FA3152C

Publishers take old builds offline without warning, so a link here can stop working even though the hash stays correct forever. If you already have the file, the hash is what matters: it tells you whether what you have is what they published.

Every version on record8

Every Cemu version with a published manifest, newest first. The most recent ones are listed above with their file names and hashes.

2.6
2.5
2.4
2.3
2.2
2.1
2.0
1.26.2

Similar programs we index

Matched on the categories Cemu and others declare in their own manifests, so the grouping is theirs rather than ours. Each one has its official URL and hash on the same terms as this page.

More programs we index

Not related to Cemu — just other entries, each with its own official URL and published hash.

Where our data comes from

Windows manifest: github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/c/Cemu/Cemu/2.6
macOS cask: formulae.brew.sh/cask/cemu