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Help building Wii into arcade machine
Nimbus:
I've got a spare Wii that I use occasionally. I would like to built an arcade cabinet to house the Wii and play games. Specifically, I want to set up a 4-player machine so my nieces and nephews can play Super Mario Wii on it at the same time. I want to use regular balltop joysticks for the controls.
I am stumped trying to figure out how to hack/set up joystick controllers for the Wii. I have searched searched a few times, but I got nowhere fast. There is hardware that can be used for other gaming consoles, but I can't find a Wii option. Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully there is a simple adapter to buy so I can just wire them up, but I doubt it.
Thanks for the help, and sorry if this is redundant.
CoryBee:
Hmmm, it would be cool to see the thing be a docking station for the wii. Just shove your wii into a slot and there would be ports lined up to plug in A\V cables. Then a place to dock your wii-mote on the Control Panel, which is connected to one of those classic controllers. The classic controller I assume could be easily soldered to and made into an interface to your arcade joystick and buttons....BAM!!! :cheers:
Well Fed Games:
The issue I keep running into as I brainstorm this kind of project is game compatibility. Unfortunately, some games, like NSMBwii, have a non-re-assignable controller input mapped to an action (such as shaking the remote for the jump spin) that would make a sweet 4 player NSMBwii cab a lot more complicated than interfacing arcade controls to classic controllers (or that Tatsunoko vs Capcom stick I have that is just collecting dust).
Too bad since wiis are dirt cheap and are only going to get cheaper.
paigeoliver:
The Wii is essentially the least cabinet friendly game console ever made.
Lilwolf:
they have the classic controller that you might be able to hack. (and if it was done well, you could have the wiimotes plug into the controller to activate the classic controllers, then unplug them for other games that use the wiimotes.)
Trouble is, not sure how many games use the classic contrller (never bought one)...
I would spend my time on hacking a dreamcast instead. Or other console.