Hacking the wii?

hotfootball2000 · Post by **hotfootball2000** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:50 pm

can i have some links on hacking the wii?
can it be made portble or handheld?
homebrew and emulation?
thx in advance

stephen0205 · Post by **stephen0205** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:09 pm

Ok em hack the wii, yes, more than one way, what u interested in softmod, or like hardware mods, mod chips and things.

portable yes, check the ben heck wii laptop guide

Hand help em kinda no

Homebrew yes, emulation yes,

For homebrew u can get such things as the mplayer, play all your videos on the wii, or a few others, back up games, play backup games, there is quite a lot check out wiibrew.

Emulation yes, there has recently been a new psx emulator for the wii, and there are already n64, nes emulators and stuff out, hope this helps

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:20 pm

You couldn't make a handheld Wii, how would you use the wiimote?

FireTime · Post by **FireTime** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:59 pm

Valium wrote:You couldn't make a handheld Wii, how would you use the wiimote?

...put the system in the wiimote.

Bigmac · Post by **Bigmac** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:42 am

FireTime wrote:
Valium wrote:You couldn't make a handheld Wii, how would you use the wiimote?
...put the system in the wiimote.

LOL. I can just see someone waving around a wiimote 5 times the size of a regular one in my head.

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:43 am

FireTime wrote:
Valium wrote:You couldn't make a handheld Wii, how would you use the wiimote?
...put the system in the wiimote.

Yeah, I'm gonna put the system in the wiimote, that makes sense buddy.

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:24 am

Valium wrote:You couldn't make a handheld Wii, how would you use the wiimote?

For games that don't use the sensor bar, you could just use it as normal, and then have to Wii (modded to have the nunchuk internally, if needed) in the other hand, though that'd be rather heavy. More practical, though more technical, is that since the controller protocol is well documented, you could build a hybrid controller more suited to handheld use. I imagine a wiimote-like controller directly attached via a ball joint with potentiometers for most of the motion, a touch screen for most sensor bar needed games (and a joystick or active digitizer pen to control for the rest), and integrate the nunchuk into the main shell with buttons for common motion.