Wiimote emulation through GameCube controller

Hey everyone, I am opening this thread to show you a project I am currently working on.
As the name implies I am working on a way to emulate the Wiimote (+ extensions) with a GameCube controller. The way this works is by replacing the BT module interface in IOSes with a custom one that behaves as a BT module with a wiimote connected. The project is still in the early stages, but I have a couple of videos to show the progress. The project is meant mainly for Wii portables, but I think it might be suitable for home Wiis as well.
The following video was a first test in which the stick emulates the wiimote IR camera to move the cursor in the System Menu (sorry about the crappy video quality).

Lately I made a lot of progress, including extensions support (Nunchuk or Classic controller) and basic gestures (like Wiimote shaking). This video shows the hack working in Super Mario Galaxy.


I am now working on an homebrew to allow making custom configuration for each game, I hope to have something releasable soon.
Also in order to support the development of this and other projects I started a Patreon page (https://patreon.com/aureliomannara), making these works often requires expensive prototypes and tools. If this is not allowed let me know and I will remove the link ASAP.

 

Thanks everybody for the nice comments

Yes, I will release it as soon as it will be ready (hopefully I will release a working beta soon-ish). The first release will disable the use of real wiimotes (it patches out the BT module), so only GC controllers will be supported. Actually only one wiimote will be emulated, but I plan on adding support for multiple emulated wiimotes and also allowing both real and emulated wiimotes to be used at the same time (this is a bit more complex, but still doable).

The motion plus is also emulated, but as you can imagine not many games that use the motion plus are suitable to be played with buttons.

The configurator will be an homebrew for the Wii, so it can detects the games on your drive and allow you to make per-game configuration files. Although a PC software is definitely doable (windows, linux, OS X, whatever).

This is a bit harder, mostly because it would need multiple configurations per each game (one for the menus, one in game, ...) and automatically detecting which one is needed is not straightforward.

 

Thanks. When I will have the configurator ready I will make sure to make a thread for people to share their configurations

 

I have finished working on a first beta of the configurator homebrew. The video briefly show its features.
I will release the homebrew later today and I my patreon supporters will get access to a beta of the IOS (for now only compatible with neek2o).

 

It scans for all the wbfs games on your drive.

 

For now yes, but I could make it for disc games as well, although you would still require homebrews to make the games configurations (they would have to be saved over your NAND though) and you would need a custom IOS with this module installed (best way imo would be doing it over IOS249 and use priiloader to force discs to run with that).

 

Definitely not on the first release, it would require additional work to use the usb adapter. Besides I don't know much about the vWii