Recent versions of Cemu (2.0 and later) prefer the WUA (Wii U Archive) format. If your game is a single .wua file, you cannot "Load" it via the folder method.
How to load a .wua file:
If you are trying to load an extracted folder that was a WUA, you may have corrupted it. unable to find meta.xml cemu
If you have the code and content folders but meta is completely missing, you can generate a minimal meta.xml file. This is not ideal (some games may crash), but it can force Cemu to load. Recent versions of Cemu (2
Create a new text file named meta.xml inside a folder named meta. Paste the following template: If you are trying to load an extracted
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<menu>
<version type="unsignedInt" length="4">2</version>
<product_code type="string" length="16">WUP-P-AAAA</product_code>
<content_optimized type="bool" length="1">true</content_optimized>
<company_code type="string" length="8">01</company_code>
<title_name type="string" length="128" lang="EN">Your Game Name</title_name>
<title_name type="string" length="128" lang="FR">Your Game Name</title_name>
<title_name type="string" length="128" lang="DE">Your Game Name</title_name>
<title_name type="string" length="128" lang="ES">Your Game Name</title_name>
<title_name type="string" length="128" lang="IT">Your Game Name</title_name>
<title_name type="string" length="128" lang="NL">Your Game Name</title_name>
<title_name type="string" length="128" lang="PT">Your Game Name</title_name>
<title_name type="string" length="128" lang="RU">Your Game Name</title_name>
<title_name type="string" length="128" lang="ZH">Your Game Name</title_name>
</menu>
Replace Your Game Name with the actual title (e.g., "Super Mario 3D World"). Save the file. This is a hack—use only if you cannot obtain a legitimate dump.