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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    That's a shame, especially Cars which is a genuinely good game. Thanks very much for the continued tests. 👍 EDIT: I can confirm I just tested Cars with Force Classic and it works. That's awesome as this is a game I actually see myself replaying at some point. Before now I've only played it on...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    I think Newer already has its own Classic Controller support, doesn't it? This might be the two separate CC hacks colliding with each other. If I'm remembering correctly, I'd say you just shouldn't use my hack with Newer, instead using its built-in CC support. They're definitely two that I'd...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Fair warning, there's no hack at the end of this post, I'm just replying to stuff. That sounds like a fun thing to try, like a reverse Classic Controller hack. Not guaranteeing it can or will get done, but I'm interested. Do you have any thoughts about how the controls would work? Looking at...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    I'll answer the first part after, but as for the Nunchuk buttons, they shouldn't hurt anything if you just leave them sitting there (since you're never going to press the Nunchuk buttons in a game that doesn't use the Nunchuk), but you could remove them as you suggested if you want to save a few...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Globs of Replies. Huh, very weird, I'll have to double-check what's going on there. This might be a case where the language menu is set up to support a solo Wiimote (you could try unplugging the CC entirely and see if the Wiimote works standalone) but the game after that point only responds...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Reply-O-Rama. Building on your mapping and identifying all the relevant functions (nice work), here's what I've got for Max currently: [/spoiler] I found out that this game got a sequel on Xbox 360, so I did look at that a little and edited the mapping a tiny bit (swapped X and Y IIRC?) to...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Nice work. I'll absolutely take a look at this to see if I can bypass the extension error. 👍 Yeah, that's the basic idea. For Donkey Kong, I was able to track down WPADSetExtensionCallback(), which sets which function should run when the extension gets changed. Knowing which function runs on...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Nice, thanks again for testing. Red Steel, I know barely anything about, I'm not sure how specific the gestures are to trigger the sword fighting moves. Reading up on it, it does seem to use some fairly unique motions like underhand and overhand throws on the Nunchuk. Seems like it would be a...
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    Homebrew WiiIR - Wii app to control infrared devices (e.g. TVs) - coming soon

    But the Wii Remote is an infra-red camera ... the sensor bar has the IR LEDs. EDIT: Found another video by the developer which explains this somewhat. It is the sensor bar that's blasting the IR signals. I don't know where the dev's Roku is that it's able to receive the signals from the...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Yeah, it's not possible from a pure SDK perspective, it required game-specific reverse engineering to understand how that game handles the alternate control schemes in order to check and adjust based on that. Ah, right, I've seen a couple of weird cases like that, where the developers don't use...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Yeah, sorry, as mentioned by awesomeee I didn't hack that revision. Sorry that it doesn't work on the first pressing, but doing Lego Batman was a pretty high-effort project so I opted to do as few versions as necessary to cover all regions. I'll consider coming back to look at Rev 0 as well, but...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    MadWorld is definitely at the upper-end of complicated, with lots of unique motions the game wants you to pull off. Ordinarily, I'd say "too hard", but MadWorld is one that I've kept on my list anyway because it would be so huge for that game to have traditional controls. It's never been...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Definitely something to consider, but depends a bit on how Epic Mickey 2 works. That wouldn't really work for the first game because the game behaves differently depending on whether you're using the IR pointer currently. When you splash (not shoot) paint/thinner while the pointer is off-screen...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Ooh, that's neat. Always cool to be getting "new" Wii games. I'll add it to my list of games to investigate. I don't think anybody's requested the Crash games before, but they're definitely a couple that I've thought about as potential candidates. I haven't gone any further than thinking about...
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    Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

    Thanks for the tests, great info to have. Do those two have the same issue with the Nunchuk message unnecessarily halting the game? I'll have a look at whether I can do the same for them. 👍 Well, it's almost Christmas, so let's all think back to the festive flop that was 2012's Rise of the...
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