Several Wii and Linux enthusiasts have gone through the trouble of developing support for the Wii controller on the PC. Though the Wii controller support can be described as flawed at best as it stands today from what we can see in the videos below, it can still be said it's an interesting turn in home brew PC-console development.

The project page link follows below:
http://www.wiili.org/Main_Page

This naturally has the potential of turning into a lot of things. A Wii emulator on the PC, or full support for Wii controller on ordinary PC operating systems. The Wii controller can after all be considered to be a very simplified haptic device (well, disregarding the force feedback), so it’s applications are many.

Question is, will Nintendo do what they can to stop it? Or will they let it slide (like they’ve seemingly done in regards to emulation in recent years)?

Wiimote Demonstration:
http://www.nwiizone.com/ninte...th-pointer-functionality

Google Earth Wii demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHFfmgrDMn0&eurl=

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Tags : cross compatibility : peripherials : wiimote

Comments

By: Dragonfly On: 10:48 Dec 7th, 2006 Offline	I suddenly have this insatiable, uncontrollable urge to dig up my NES emulator, and fire up the Duck Hunt ROM...

By: Corrine On: 09:37 Dec 9th, 2006 Offline	It would be awesome if Nintendo let people do that. I have a feeling they will.