
Devolution appears to be buggy/unstable the first time you boot a game and generate the DVVs for it, especially on the Wii U. If games crash or fail to load entirely, turn off your console and try again. The DVV should've been generated at that point and the game should boot the second time.
Alternatively, a "keygen" dol is provided to simply generate a DVV and immediately exit before the console can crash. Besides the above caveat, Devolution appears to generate DVVs correctly on the Wii U, no 1st-party Wii remote required.