Hacking Wireless Gamepad Video Capture - Is it realistically feasable?

[Deleted-19228]

Well yea WITH a 3ds it's more

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Well yea WITH a 3ds it's more

Well yeah but they charge an assembly fee with the 3DS regardless of whether you buy it with or without unless you buy the kit and install it yourself

 

[Deleted-19228]

No, the fee is always included. http://www.3dsvideocapture.com/product/70

 

[TotalInsanity4]

No, the fee is always included. http://www.3dsvideocapture.com/product/70

Wow ok, I wish I'd found that site sooner

Still though, my initial point still stands that a free software is usually going to beat a hardware solution unless the hardware offers some really great extra benefits

 

[Supercool330]

It is actually already possible to capture the video with software, it just isn't really practical. Right now, you have to use a patched wpa_supplicant that breaks normal WiFi to connect to the Wii U, and it isn't a capture so much as the computer emulating the gamepad. Setting up the connections is also a total pain, and has to be done each time. It would be possible to man in the middle the traffic as well, but getting both connections working would be a nightmare. With a little more development work, it would be possible to get all this fixed, but nobody has been working on it. At one point a while back I was looking at making a fork of wpa_supplicant that would work with the Wii U natively while still working with normal WiFi, but I didn't get very far before switching to another project. If you are interested, I found the code that I was working off of here: https://bitbucket.org/memahaxx/, but it isn't really usable without a decent amount of effort.

 

[gudenau]

You should be able to do this over WiFi, I hope to get my own libDRC to do this.

 

[Xanthe]

I personally think there could be! If you were to get an adapter and attach it to the gamepad! That adapter could lead to a wireless capture card which connects to your computer! That would be SWEET

 

[gudenau]

I personally think there could be! If you were to get an adapter and attach it to the gamepad! That adapter could lead to a wireless capture card which connects to your computer! That would be SWEET

You should just need a half decent 5GHZ WiFi adapter. A flagship Android device might be able to do it even, not like that will happen.

 

[Xanthe]

You should just need a half decent 5GHZ WiFi adapter. A flagship Android device might be able to do it even, not like that will happen.

You could probably use the Raspberry Pi for that

 

[gudenau]

You could probably use the Raspberry Pi for that

That is cutting it a little close, there are some "interesting" networking bottlenecks on them.

 

[Xanthe]

That is cutting it a little close, there are some "interesting" networking bottlenecks on them.

You could just buy a strong wireless adapter

 

[gudenau]

You could just buy a strong wireless adapter

That is not the problem, it is the interface that it uses and how it is implemented. Trust me I attempted to use one as a wireless switch, out is SUPER slow.

 

[Xanthe]

That is not the problem, it is the interface that it uses and how it is implemented. Trust me I attempted to use one as a wireless switch, out is SUPER slow.

True. The built in linux is as good as potato sitting on top of a toaster

 

[Noah Sanchez]

Any updates?

 

[Daytin13]

so eh, has anyone been working on this?!