ChevronX Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Wii controller for PC? Will there be one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 I highly doubt it, Ive never seen any nintendo gear brought over to the pc, but that does not mean that it cant be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Microsoft did them *years* ago (ie back in the 90's), they may even have been the first to do them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardz Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Shame shame shame, of course Nintendo has been ported to the PC! There is a howto on converting SNES controllers to the PC, and zsnes http://zsnes.com/ provides a SNES to USB adapter (in case you want to use the controller in a SNES, or you have some strange, morbid fear of sodering irons...) Almost all the worthwile SNES and NES games have been ported to PC, and quite a good amount of N64 games as well. (These are called Roms, if you're gonna google/wikipedia). There are Gamecube emulators out there as well, but those play 1, maybe 2 games, and are slow and choppy. ZSNES is an open source SNES (if you didn't guess that bit from the name) emulator, for *NIX and Windows (SNES9x or something similar has a Max OS X port), written mostly in x86 assembly and C. I grew up playing Super Mario World for SNES, and I love playing chrono trigger and old mario games, and apps like these let me do it all from my PC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Almost all the worthwile SNES and NES games have been ported to PC, and quite a good amount of N64 games as well. (These are called Roms, if you're gonna google/wikipedia). You mean emulated rather than ported, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoR_Wraith Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 I'd say it's extremely unlikely...for a Wii controller to work on the PC the sensor bar would also have to be made to work on the PC - and even if someone works out a way to get them working then what exactly are you going to be able to play? (assuming no one is able to emulate Wii games) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellmark Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Well, the tilt sensing and button presses would be able to be made available, since the wiimote uses bluetooth. Like preivously mentioned the pointing abilities would be non existant unless someone did a shitload of work to get the sensor bar to work (IE, software to control it, hardware adapters, etc) As far as what could it be used for? NES games, racing games, Marble Madness, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Shame shame shame, of course Nintendo has been ported to the PC! /me unfounded pride is shattered /me goes and hides in dark corner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevronX Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 Hmm good point, thanks for your input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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