Hardware Wii Speak drivers for Windows

[LuigiPT]

I've searched, I truly did, but couldn't find anything.

First of all, I don't need advise on buying another headset/microphone. I have the WiiSpeak already and would like to use.
Me and my friends are planning on recording us playing games LOCALLY and instead of all using mics while we're in the same room it would be fun if we could get the Wii Speak to record our voices. Dunno how messy it would get with the sound TV, but we wanted to try.

But for all that to happen, we first need to get the Wii Speak to work so... Is there any change that there is some drivers out there?

 

[Gullwing]

I searched for this, like 4 months ago but I still couldn't find anything...

 

[tueidj]

Nope, the wii speak requires firmware to be uploaded to it by the games when they initialize it. So there's zero chance of finding some windows drivers that support it.

 

[PsyBlade]

drivers pushing firmware to devices on init is not a new thing in the pc world
there is no driver because nobody cared, not because of fw

 

[tueidj]

Of course it's not new, but the firmware is proprietary - it would be illegal to rip it out of a game and incorporate it into a driver.

 

[WiiUBricker]

How about an open source driver? If I recall correct, marcan made a driver for kinect.

 

[PsyBlade]

that’s not uncommon either
you don’t incorporate it but let the installer grab a copy
that way you don’t have to distribute it and are out of legal trouble

 

[SifJar]

Of course it's not new, but the firmware is proprietary - it would be illegal to rip it out of a game and incorporate it into a driver.
Not if you only did it for yourself and didn't distribute it. But that rules out 99% of the visitors of this forum (myself included).

QUOTE(WiiBricker @ Jul 5 2011, 10:05 PM) How about an open source driver? If I recall correct, marcan made a driver for kinect.

The difference there was kinect didn't need a firmware sent to it to make it work, it has firmware on it. The driver there "just" needs to read input and send signals. Which can be done completely from scratch.

In this case, I thing you'd have to reverse engineer the firmware completely and then write your own alternative. Even then I don't know if it'd be possible.

 

[tueidj]

I probably should have mentioned that it looks like the firmware is encrypted.

 

[LuigiPT]

So I guess the thing is, no luck, hem? Well, at least I tried, guess the Wii Speak is going to near the TV again.

 

[Spiringmovie]

I probably should have mentioned that it looks like the firmware is encrypted.

Since there are a select number of games that have the capability of using the Wii speak, maybe they're have their own decryption keys? Some digging in the code of the games could prove to be useful in trying to find it. And if we could only find part of it, there would have to be an equation that would give us a decryption key. Kind of how Seedminer works to root a 3ds.