Hardware Wii Speak PC Drivers

[Nasedase]

I bought wii speak when it came bundled with Animal Crossings. I was too late for the pre0-order so I had to buy it separately so I feel like I screwed up more than most people (not as bad as when I bought the broadband adapter for Gamecube).
I always thought that the microphone might work well in capturing a live band sound since nintendo designed it for a room full of people, so I'm really interested to know if anyone made it compatible with PC yet?

 

[sjones900]

Nope. No one as far as I know has bothered to develop drivers for it. I don't think it would be too difficult, but there's just been pretty much no effort to do so.

 

[tueidj]

It requires custom firmware so any PC driver would either have to "borrow" Nintendo's copyright code or require the user to rip it out of a wii-speak compatible title.

 

[Lucif3r]

Question! Whats so interesting about wiispeak that you would like to use it on a PC?

 

[olleb]

Question! Whats so interesting about wiispeak that you would like to use it on a PC?

I bought wii speak when it came bundled with Animal Crossings. I was too late for the pre0-order so I had to buy it separately so I feel like I screwed up more than most people (not as bad as when I bought the broadband adapter for Gamecube).
I always thought that the microphone might work well in capturing a live band sound since nintendo designed it for a room full of people, so I'm really interested to know if anyone made it compatible with PC yet?

 

[Lucif3r]

Question! Whats so interesting about wiispeak that you would like to use it on a PC?

I bought wii speak when it came bundled with Animal Crossings. I was too late for the pre0-order so I had to buy it separately so I feel like I screwed up more than most people (not as bad as when I bought the broadband adapter for Gamecube).
I always thought that the microphone might work well in capturing a live band sound since nintendo designed it for a room full of people, so I'm really interested to know if anyone made it compatible with PC yet?

That doesnt really answer why the wiispeak would be better than a real microphone.

 

[Spiringmovie]

That doesnt really answer why the wiispeak would be better than a real microphone.

It is a real microphone. It was just made for the wii, and the wii only. The quality of it isn't too terrible, so I can see why people would want to use it on there PC's if they didn't have one originally, or if they're pc doesn't have a good one.