Homebrew libDRC Progress?

[gudenau]

has anyone actually gotten libDRC to a state where it could be reasonably used? Would be really nice if I could use the gamepad on my computer, sounds like a great opportunity to create some interesting game mods or party games with multiple gamepads.

 

[Deleted User]

has anyone actually gotten libDRC to a state where it could be reasonably used? Would be really nice if I could use the gamepad on my computer, sounds like a great opportunity to create some interesting game mods or party games with multiple gamepads.

At this point it´s unlikely to ever happen, dude. The Gamepad simply is optimized for certain chips, which the gamepad contains. A special chip-setup you can´t buy for or find in any "pc" because it simply couldn´t work there (remember it also requires the bios/firmware, which isn´t some ordinary bios you find in any motherboard).

Even if it would some day work (e.g. when this summer "WiiU environment" works, which means we could control the arm-cpu of WiiU) you would still be limited to 1 gamepad output only.
The problem is, the gamepad contains 5 cpus. And each of them does other things, no one understands.
It´s simply too complex. It could years to learn about it...
And before we don´t know exactly how the DRH works we can´t do anything useful with it.

 

[gudenau]

At this point it´s unlikely to ever happen, dude. The Gamepad simply is optimized for certain chips, which the gamepad contains. A special chip-setup you can´t buy for or find in any "pc" because it simply couldn´t work there (remember it also requires the bios/firmware, which isn´t some ordinary bios you find in any motherboard).

Even if it would some day work (e.g. when this summer "WiiU environment" works, which means we could control the arm-cpu of WiiU) you would still be limited to 1 gamepad output only.
The problem is, the gamepad contains 5 cpus. And each of them does other things, no one understands.
It´s simply too complex. It could years to learn about it...
And before we don´t know exactly how the DRH works we can´t do anything useful with it.

I don't see why you couldn't just simulate the stuff on a PC. It uses 802.11 with a slightly modified crypto/auth system.

 

[Deleted User]

I don't see why you couldn't just simulate the stuff on a PC. It uses 802.11 with a slightly modified crypto/auth system.

It´s very complex & not just "Wifi" with encryption. Did you not fully read what i said? it has about 5 cpus. One 8-bit-cpu controls the flashing of the firmware. One cortex-cpu does the streaming. And i said above the gamepad can control red/blue/green-content of streaming because another cpu detects what type of media you stream .
You simply can´t emulate everything.

It might take ten years from now on (2020) to fully understand what´s going on in this piece of tech. currently we don´t even know what is stored in this 32 mbytes of flash.