Wireless Gc/N64 (even classic) on wii when?

lego · 21 Apr 2007 at 03:22

First thing this is a drunken question

now thats out of the way, like many i have a wii, and like many I've downloaded a few vc titles. All of which i enjoy, except mario 64, which for some reason refuses to get past the "plug in a controller" screen, even though i have a wavebird controller plugged in.

Rather than buying a classic controller or another gc controller my question is do you think we'll see a wii (bluetooth) compatible gc contoller (there may be already one for the gc but would love to see a wii one) Even the classic controllers plug into the wiimote, was just hoping for for a replacement.

(sorry if I've made no sense)

Thanks

Kreeeee · 21 Apr 2007 at 06:57

The wavebird works perfectly so I see no need to make any more controlers.

Wrathamon · 21 Apr 2007 at 09:49

lego said:
Rather than buying a classic controller or another gc controller my question is do you think we'll see a wii (bluetooth) compatible gc contoller (there may be already one for the gc but would love to see a wii one) Even the classic controllers plug into the wiimote, was just hoping for for a replacement

The problem is as the GameCube games run natively on the Wii (and not under emulation) is that they are only programmed to see the original GC port hardware - that's why they need you to use a real GC controller.

For them to get GC games to use newer peripherals they'd need to create some on-the-fly patcher that you download to the Wii's flash memory, which runs whenever a GC disc is inserted and can somehow patch the main code to let it use the new stuff.

So in theory - possible - but it means they'd have to work out everything to patch and write new routines for every GC game individually.

GarethDW · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:38

Is it just me that's got this wrong or have Nintendo stopped production of the Wavebird? You'd think they'd have ramped production up, as people will want one to go with their Wii... not every Wii owner was a GC owner, so there must be a massive market out there, imo, yet I can't find very many places that stock them - only North American web sites and that horrible auction site.