Case study

New Super Mario Bros. U: a native Wii U recompilation

nsmbu-recomp builds a native New Super Mario Bros. U program from a user's Wii U game copy through its installer and runtime. It supports Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, with course and world-map save states and up to four controllers. The project documents supported USA and European revisions and experimental wider display and higher frame rates.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 160
Last commit: 2026-11-07
Language: C++
License (GitHub): MPL-2.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Provide your own supported New Super Mario Bros. U disc image, Cemu archive or extracted game folder.
Prerequisites: Disc images require the disc key and Wii U common key.
Limits: Japanese releases are not supported; combo packs have partial support.
License: MPL-2.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{nsmbu-recomp-case,
  title = {{New Super Mario Bros. U: a native Wii U recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/nsmbu-recomp/nsmbu-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/nsmbu-recomp/nsmbu-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nsmbu-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

New Super Mario Bros. U: a native Wii U recompilation. https://github.com/nsmbu-recomp/nsmbu-recomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nsmbu-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · nsmbu-recomp/nsmbu-recomp · Revision e11d228