Hacking GameCube Controllers on Wii U's vWii???

[TheRealMorganTubeHD]

I have a copy of DDRHP3 for Wii and wanted to play it on my Wii U but... it requires the Gamecube controller ports for the dance pad. is there a patcher for Wii Games that use the Gamecube Adapter for Gamecube Controller compatible/required games? I've had this problem for about... 3 years! if anyone knows of a patcher or is working on one, I'd LOVE to try it. thanks!

 

[pedro702]

imma wait for someone to do it for mario kart wii. i love the gc controller

lol just buy the wiimote to gc controller extension and you can use the gc controller as a classic controller in every game xD i got one and it works great.

 

[Jilou]

I wait for Bomberman Blast on Wii (in oder to play it at 8 players)

 

[TheRealMorganTubeHD]

imma wait for someone to do it for mario kart wii. i love the gc controller

Same. LOL XD

 

[TheRealMorganTubeHD]

lol just buy the wiimote to gc controller extension and you can use the gc controller as a classic controller in every game xD i got one and it works great.

Yeah, but it doesn't recognize the Gamecube controller AS a Gamecube controller, it's recognized as a Classic Controller.

 

[Deleted member 568587]

Mayflash made an adapter that plugs into your wiimote and lets you use your Gamecube controllers, it works on Wii U and it mimicks the Wii Classic Controller, I have one. It's discontinued but you might be able to find one on Ebay.

 

[pedro702]

Yeah, but it doesn't recognize the Gamecube controller AS a Gamecube controller, it's recognized as a Classic Controller.

i know but it works for any other game that you want to use a gc controller and supports classic controller too like mario kart wii, if like the guy abode just wanted to play mkwii with gc controller he can do so easily on wiiu.

Mayflash made an adapter that plugs into your wiimote and lets you use your Gamecube controllers, it works on Wii U and it mimicks the Wii Classic Controller, I have one. It's discontinued but you might be able to find one on Ebay.

this doesnt work on the case of the OP mentioned since the dance pad is connected to teh gc ports of the wii and only awnsers to the gc code and not to the mimik of the cc code sadly.

 

[Deleted member 568587]

Yes I know but someone said it wasn't possible to use Gamecube controllers other than the Smash Adapter and you were wrong. The conversation changed to a broader compatibility of can you use GC controllers at all. You said no, again you were wrong.

 

[pedro702]

Yes I know but someone said it wasn't possible to use Gamecube controllers other than the Smash Adapter and you were wrong. The conversation changed to a broader compatibility of can you use GC controllers at all. You said no, again you were wrong.

what? lol i think you didnt understood the question at all...

there are very rare wii games like dance pad ones that altough they were wii games they used the wii gc controller ports for the dance pads , and those games couldnt even be playing on wii consoles without gc ports or wii minis becuase they lacked the gc controller ports to connect the dance pads.

the adapters that exist to connect gc controllers to the wiimote dont mimik the gc controller code and instead they turn gc controller code into classic controller code so you can use the gc controller as a classic controllers.

obviously the dance pad here would never works becuase the wii game would look for the gc controller code for the inputs and would only find CC code therefore it doesnt register a single thing.


you can use the adapter toi turn gc controllers into CC but the adapter doesnt send native gc controller input therefore games that read that input and dont use CC at all wont work with it.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Since you can use an adapter to plug a GC, or PS2, or any other dance pad into a PC and play pretty much every DDR song released ever in Stepmania plus many more that were never in an official DDR game, there isn't a whole lot of point in someone going through the trouble of patching in GC adapter support for that specific game. Honestly, I recommend just playing Stepmania instead.

DO NOT use regular old stepmania, it is deprecated as fuck, use project outfox instead (or if you wanna do keyboard play, go with etterna)

 

[TonyNESgri]

I don't have the original installation, deleted those long ago. I'll look into it, but I'd be lying if I said you should get your hopes up on me achieving this any time soon.

So, have you managed to backup your GC patched inject of Brawl / Project M?

 

[MikaDubbz]

So, have you managed to backup your GC patched inject of Brawl / Project M?

Nah sorry

 

[Silencer7915]

I don't have the original installation, deleted those long ago. I'll look into it, but I'd be lying if I said you should get your hopes up on me achieving this any time soon.

Man that is so unfortunate! Really would be awesome if we could make it work, since right now I think that native wired Gamecube control on Wii games is the only perk making original Wii functionnally the better choice compared to the Wii U's vWii (aside from maybe better image upscaling on the original Wii). Everything else is doable on both systems.

 

[TrueBenjamin]

I can imagine this being the last step in making the Wii obsolete to the Wii U, because, in terms of official functionality, you're right that gamecube port support is the only thing the Wii has going for it. Other than that, my Wii U even has official channels and online support working on it. And if we could somehow get Wii U pro controllers working on the vWii, then that would also be pretty huge. I personally use pro controllers to play my GC injects. I'm not sure why else someone would rather own a wii over a wii u honestly.

 

[puppymonkeybaby]

I can imagine this being the last step in making the Wii obsolete to the Wii U, because, in terms of official functionality, you're right that gamecube port support is the only thing the Wii has going for it. Other than that, my Wii U even has official channels and online support working on it. And if we could somehow get Wii U pro controllers working on the vWii, then that would also be pretty huge. I personally use pro controllers to play my GC injects. I'm not sure why else someone would rather own a wii over a wii u honestly.

Hi, I'm pretty new to modding and it's been really fun learning how Wii U modding works and discovering what my Wii U can achieve through modding. I've learned that the modding community has taken great strides in giving the Wii U enhanced controller functionality, and it's been awesome to be able to use my Gamepad in so many different scenarios now.

What I'm wondering; is anyone able to explain what type of modding/coding these two things require (GC Adapter on VWii & Wii U Pro on VWii) in order for it to work? Is it currently too difficult for modders to achieve this functionality? I understand that the scene has died down a little in recent years as well so I imagine that is also a contributing factor. Any answers are appreciated, I'm genuinely curious about this stuff and wanna learn more

 

[BeeGeesAnd2PacFan]

I'm going to post a thread that describe a way to use the gc adapter with USB loader gx (it's not compatible with all games).
I'll post the thread link bellow when I'll be more than a "New user", it requires to post more than 5 message. Otherwise I can't post the links.

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Hacking Gaming Homebrew Tutorial Homebrew app  Thread 'Play Wii games with the Wii U Gamecube Adapter on USB Loader GX [Chadderz121 wup-028-bslug little update]'

Aug 31, 2025

Hello girls and guys,

Having a Wii U and wanting to play the compatible Wii games with a Gamecube controller, using the wup-028-bslug by Chadderz121 was a way to do it, but I had two problems.


-My first problem was that I launch my Wii games from USB Loader GX but I couldn't manage to make brainslug work with it. After some research on the web I found a solution, you can load an alternative .dol when launching the game from USB Loader GX. In my case, this alternative dol is brainslug.
Combining this solution with the fact that brainslug can load specific symbols and modules...

• BeeGeesAnd2PacFan
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• Forum: Nintendo Wii

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Feel free to help if you can and want