EspressU
EspressU · Games
EspressU is a sideloaded app that lets you play Wii U games on your iPad and iPhone. Free and open source (MPL-2.0). Br…
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- Version: 1.3
- Updated: 2026-10-26
- Size: 34.5 MB
- Requires: iOS 15.0 or later
What's new in 1.3
v1.3 makes games run steadier, adds a single report file for bugs and crashes, and fixes several crashes when a game starts or stops.
Highlights:
• Fewer crashes: starting a game no longer crashes when the saved pipeline archive cannot be opened, and low memory while loading no longer gets the ap…
About
• Metal renderer with a persistent shader cache.
• ARM64 recompiler (JIT), built in, iOS 17.4 and later.
• Controller support (DualSense, Xbox, MFi) and an on-screen GamePad.
• Games as .wua files, decrypted folders, or encrypted with your own keys.txt; updates and DLC can be imported.
EspressU contains no firmware, keys or games. You need your own dumps from your own Wii U.
Then:
The result is an unsigned EspressU.app. Zip it into a Payload folder as an .ipa and sign it with your own certificate. It needs the entitlements get-task-allow, com.apple.developer.kernel.increased-memory-limit and com.apple.developer.kernel.extended-virtual-addressing.
Versions
- 1.3 · 2026-10-26
