Hardware libsicksaxis - connect sixaxis/DS3 to the Wii

[xerpi]

Hi guys, these days I've been writing a library called "sicksaxis" (yeah sick xD) for the Wii.
It's very simple, it allows you to connect your sixaxis and dualshock 3 via USB to the Wii and read its data.

Lib SickSaxis allows:

• Read the buttons
• Read the analog sticks
• Read the motion sensors (accelerometer and gyro)
• Read the button pressure
• Rumble
• Turn on/off the LEDs
• Set the controller's MAC
• Get the controller's MAC

Version 2:

• Rewritten from scratch
• Should be more stable

Version 1.0 improvements:

• Reorganizated the code
• Improved some functions
• Changed synchronous USB functions to asyncrhonous (this means it won't lag anymore)

Download version 2.0
GitHub: https://github.com/xerpi/libsicksaxis


A video:




Old versions:

• Download [beta]

This is not yet a library, it's just a homebrew, I mean the library source is compiled with the main.c

 

[boomario]

Awesome work
please continue with this wonderful work and maybe in future we will be able to play some games with dualshock 3 wihout any problems.

 

[xerpi]

Awesome work
please continue with this wonderful work and maybe in future we will be able to play some games with dualshock 3 wihout any problems.

Thanks
Well, currently it's only a library, it can be useful for current homebrew (and maybe new), I mean, if you grab some emulator's code for example, you can implement this library very easily.
The hard this would be to write a IOS driver to support sixaxis/dualshock3 natively.
And even a harder think would be to do the same via bluetooth.

If you find an interesting open source Wii project, tell me and I'll try to implement libsicksaxis

 

[Oxybelis]

It would be great if this can be impemented into cIOSX d2x as classic controller emulator. http://code.google.com/p/d2x-cios/

 

[WoJjTeK]

Awesome work , do you think it'd be possible to implement this library into Dios Mios ? I'd be a great solution for new Wii's without GC controller support.

 

[BlackWizzard17]

so cool hopefully I can play ps1 emulator with it for MK trilogy

 

[LightyKD]

Great work! Id love to see a 360 controller version of this!

 

[Cyan]

If you find an interesting open source Wii project, tell me and I'll try to implement libsicksaxis

WiiSX? Playstation emulator with a Playstation controller.


@users: it needs to be included into the homebrew sources/devkit, not into IOS/MIOS.

 

[SifJar]

WiiSX? Playstation emulator with a Playstation controller.


@users: it needs to be included into the homebrew sources/devkit, not into IOS/MIOS.

People talking about IOS/MIOS are meaning they want it to work in official software.

 

[phrozenfeonix]

You wouldn't be able to implement this into dios mios, for sure. Apparently there is already so much space restriction involved with the code, that the devs can't even fit in an ntfs support module.

 

[xerpi]

Snes emulator with this lib: http://gbatemp.net/threads/snes9x-gx-4-3-2-with-libsicksaxis.339612/

Hope you enjoy!

 

[xerpi]

New version 1.0, see the top of the page!

 

[BlackWizzard17]

So how would we use this, and by the way nice work.

 

[xerpi]

So how would we use this, and by the way nice work.

We can implement it on homebrews (on emulators it would be nice ). And thanks.

 

[xerpi]

I have updated it a little, now the library is actually a library, not a homebrew. Typing make install will do the trick.

 

[filfat]

Great work! Id love to see a 360 controller version of this!

The 360 controller isencrypted so it req a driver. That makes it 1000x harder to make.

 

[daxtsu]

Hi, do you have any idea why the sample stops updating the controller info after about 5 seconds? I compiled it with the latest commit from https://github.com/xerpi/libsicksaxis, connected a genuine Sony DS3 via a USB cable, and saw it started printing button info and such to the screen, but after about 5 seconds, it just completely stops. I do have a USB hard drive connected to the Wii while trying this; is there a problem with this library and USB hard drives?

I modified the sample like so, to remove the "opening" part (I wanted it to always print the info, as pressing 1 or 2 freezes the homebrew ):

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    srand(time(NULL));
    IOS_ReloadIOS(58);
    usleep(100 * 100000);
    USB_Initialize();
    init_video();
    WPAD_Init();
       
    ss_init();
    struct ss_device dev, dev2;
    ss_initialize(&dev);
   
 
    while(run) {
        WPAD_ScanPads();
        u32 pressed = WPAD_ButtonsDown(0);
        printf("\x1b[2;1H  \n");
        printf("Press 1 or 2 to open the controllers:  %d\n", lol);
        USB_DeviceChangeNotifyAsync(USB_CLASS_HID, change_cb, (void*)&lol);
       
        if (!ss_is_connected(&dev)) {
                if (ss_open(&dev)>0) {
                    ss_start_reading(&dev);
                    ss_set_removal_cb(&dev, removal_callback, (void*)1);
                }
        } else {
            print_ss_data(&dev);
        }
 
        if (pressed & WPAD_BUTTON_HOME) run = 0;
        VIDEO_WaitVSync();
        VIDEO_ClearFrameBuffer (rmode, xfb, COLOR_BLACK);
    }
    ss_close(&dev);
    ss_close(&dev2);
    USB_Deinitialize();
    exit(0);
    return 0;
}

Edit: I found the problem myself. USB_DeviceChangeNotifyAsync(USB_CLASS_HID, change_cb, (void*)&lol); shouldn't be called on every loop iteration. It causes the Wii to freeze. If it's async, it doesn't need to be called every frame.

 

[xerpi]

Hi, do you have any idea why the sample stops updating the controller info after about 5 seconds? I compiled it with the latest commit from https://github.com/xerpi/libsicksaxis, connected a genuine Sony DS3 via a USB cable, and saw it started printing button info and such to the screen, but after about 5 seconds, it just completely stops. I do have a USB hard drive connected to the Wii while trying this; is there a problem with this library and USB hard drives?

I modified the sample like so, to remove the "opening" part (I wanted it to always print the info, as pressing 1 or 2 freezes the homebrew ):

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    srand(time(NULL));
    IOS_ReloadIOS(58);
    usleep(100 * 100000);
    USB_Initialize();
    init_video();
    WPAD_Init();
     
    ss_init();
    struct ss_device dev, dev2;
    ss_initialize(&dev);
 
 
    while(run) {
        WPAD_ScanPads();
        u32 pressed = WPAD_ButtonsDown(0);
        printf("\x1b[2;1H  \n");
        printf("Press 1 or 2 to open the controllers:  %d\n", lol);
        USB_DeviceChangeNotifyAsync(USB_CLASS_HID, change_cb, (void*)&lol);
     
        if (!ss_is_connected(&dev)) {
                if (ss_open(&dev)>0) {
                    ss_start_reading(&dev);
                    ss_set_removal_cb(&dev, removal_callback, (void*)1);
                }
        } else {
            print_ss_data(&dev);
        }
 
        if (pressed & WPAD_BUTTON_HOME) run = 0;
        VIDEO_WaitVSync();
        VIDEO_ClearFrameBuffer (rmode, xfb, COLOR_BLACK);
    }
    ss_close(&dev);
    ss_close(&dev2);
    USB_Deinitialize();
    exit(0);
    return 0;
}

Edit: I found the problem myself. USB_DeviceChangeNotifyAsync(USB_CLASS_HID, change_cb, (void*)&lol); shouldn't be called on every loop iteration. It causes the Wii to freeze. If it's async, it doesn't need to be called every frame.

Thanks for noticing that USB_DeviceChangeNotifyAsync bug! I'll take a deeper look once I've ended my finals.

 

[daxtsu]

No problem. Out of curiosity, does libsicksaxis support connecting DS3 controllers wirelessly? I saw some code to get and set the mac address, but when I tried to use either one, it seemed to crash (I'm sure I was doing it wrong somehow..).

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Hi guys, these days I've been writing a library called "sicksaxis" (yeah sick xD) for the Wii.
It's very simple, it allows you to connect your sixaxis and dualshock 3 via USB to the Wii and read its data.

Lib SickSaxis allows:

• Read the buttons
• Read the analog sticks
• Read the motion sensors (accelerometer and gyro)
• Read the button pressure
• Rumble
• Turn on/off the LEDs
• Set the controller's MAC
• Get the controller's MAC

Version 2:

• Rewritten from scratch
• Should be more stable

This is not yet a library, it's just a homebrew, I mean the library source is compiled with the main.c

Yo!
first thanks for this awesome library
second is there a way on earth to make it work in USB Loaders when a cIOS is used (force cIOS option "on" that is)