Hacking Nintendont WiiU gamepad patch for emulators?

[portugeek]

Everywhere I've been reading is saying that Nintendont doesn't recognize the WiiU gamepad. Last night I booted it up for the first time and it apparently does now?? Is this a recent update, or is this a patch that's being applied by the Nintendont forwarder I installed?

It still seems to be booting up Nintendont in vWii mode which has me wondering if there's any way I can apply this patch to the Wii versions of retro emulators?

Or better yet, does anyone know if the Wii retro emulators ever received any WiiU updates?

And yes, I know Retroarch exists. I appreciate that those who recommend Retroarch are simply trying to be helpful, but Retroarch is a garbage fire on every platform it's ported to. I spend more time configuring a frontend (that freezes and crashes at any/every possible moment) than I do actually playing the games. The wide spread popularity of such a fickle/buggy piece of software is beyond me.

 

[pedro702]

nintendont was updated with wiiugamepad compatibilitily like 8 months or more ago if you use it like a wiichannel inject, the only downside is no usb Storage support when nintendont is runned via wiichannel injection on wiiu mode.

the only emulators i know got updates for wiiu gamepad are wii64 1.2 compiled by fix94 and wiisx compiled by fix94.

 

[sj33]

Wait, really? Can you actually use the GamePad controls? This might be worth investing in a large SD card for.

 

[fate6]

Wait, really? Can you actually use the GamePad controls? This might be worth investing in a large SD card for.

Yea you can play GC games from the gamepad only using the gamepad itself these days.

 

[pedro702]

Wait, really? Can you actually use the GamePad controls? This might be worth investing in a large SD card for.

for a very long time lol you must be out of the loop lol, you an even isntall game specific launchers on wiiu menu like lets say resident evil 4 wich is stored on your wiiu formated drive(noone fat32) and you can play it with the gamepad on nintendont.

 

[sj33]

I am indeed out of the loop with Wii U stuff, but I’m now inspired to get back into it.

 

[WesMods]

Lol where have you been, there's more than just Nintendont with Gamepad support. You have some forums to read

 

[portugeek]

the only emulators i know got updates for wiiu gamepad are wii64 1.2 compiled by fix94 and wiisx compiled by fix94.

I wonder how complicated that is to do. Because I'd like to see if I could get that support for the 3 GX emu's and GensPlus.

Do you know of any tutorials for wiichannel injection?

 

[WesMods]

I wonder how complicated that is to do. Because I'd like to see if I could get that support for the 3 GX emu's and GensPlus.

Do you know of any tutorials for wiichannel injection?

They're already done as well:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/is-ther...iidrc-for-wii-vc-injects.491686/#post-7761885

TeconMoon's WiiVC Injector is on here