Homebrew Misc Desperate Search For a Download Link

[maximum_egg]

Hello there my fellow interneters (cool slang for people who surf the web), I have come to you in search of a download link for the homebrew application "Padsend for Wii" which allows you to wirelessly transmit the inputs from a wiis gamecube controllers to your pc. After hours of searching I've found only two deleted links for such an app and the original thread has been dormant for almost 11 years. So now I come to this fun little website in desperate search of answers. This is a new account so I cannot post links, but if you would like to know more I can send you links privately.


Sincerely, Max




EDIT: THE LINK HAS BEEN FOUND!! I will add the files to this thread once I've confirmed they're working

Edit 2: So I do have a download link that worked, but I've been having a strange issue where the controller is only responsive like 10% of the time.

Edit 3: It seems like the app doesn't really play well with windows 7 and up because of the driver signing system, I did end up getting it to work but you have to do it on a windows vista or lower machine (or virtual machine if you configure the networking correctly) this may also not be related to said signing system at all and could just be another issue with windows 10/my pc. Let me know if you used it and got it to work on windows 7+ [I've left a 7zip file with all of the components below]

 

[Takokeshi]

Maybe @Cyan has it somewhere? Probably your best bet unless someone else randomly happens to still have it.

 

[Cyan]

Hello,

Indeed, I still have it.

If it doesn't work, don't forget that you can (or MUST) hex-edit the IP in the binary file if you need to match your PC's server app IP, and the Exe file to match your Wii's IP
Dol Location is at 0x2F1A8
Exe location at 0x36088

If I remember, the developer made it for a network mask 192.168.1.xxx

Don't set your exact PC and wii IP, I recommend you to edit only the first 3 bytes and keep the last one to 255 : 192.168.0.255
(or 192.168.1.255 if your router is set to that range)

It will make it work with DHCP and random IP assignation, looking for the PC's server app on all the IP range from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254


You'll also have to properly set the controller driver and calibration on windows.
I made some screenshot and information on the official thread to explain how I had to calibrate my GC controller on WinXP.
(screenshot are maybe offline due to filetrip being closed)

Note: It doesn't work on Win7 or newer OS anymore because the required PPjoy drivers are not signed... http://ppjoy.blogspot.com/
No idea if Vjoy has been updated and signed for Win7+

you could edit your win7 to accept unsigned drivers (launch win7 in test mode), but you'll have security risk, and an overlay message on your screen.
I don't know if Win7/8/10/11 default controller driver is compatible with the PadSend server.

I found a website saying PPJoy works on Win10 and 11...
It's maybe a fake one : https://www.filecroco.com/download-ppjoy/ but it seems it's from here https://github.com/elitak/PPJoy
But PPJoy sources are available, so maybe someone took the project and updated it ? (and paid $500 for a Microsoft driver licence?)


If you make it work, please let me know wich OS and which driver version you have

 

[maximum_egg]

So I did get it to work eventually but I had this weird issue where every input had a half second delay and analog inputs were incredibly laggy. The PPJoy driver provided by the github page actually enables windows 7+ test mode now so that wasn't an issue on windows 10. Also, vjoy has in fact been updated for use with windows 7+ but I haven't tested it as of now. Padsend server doesn't seem to have any issues and neither does the client app, so I'm pretty stumped here


Windows 10 Build 19041
ppjoy driver 0.8.4.6

@Cyan oops I forgot to mention you

 

[Cyan]

ppjoy enables test mode automatically ?
so it's still not signed, but activate test mode, that's not the ideal solution
At least it's nice the github version work on newer OS

thanks for testing and your report.

I don't know why you have input lag, when I tested it on WinXP it worked fast and I didn't notice any lag.
I didn't try since Win7

 

[maximum_egg]

ppjoy enables test mode automatically ?
so it's still not signed, but activate test mode, that's not the ideal solution
At least it's nice the github version work on newer OS

thanks for testing and your report.

I don't know why you have input lag, when I tested it on WinXP it worked fast and I didn't notice any lag.
I didn't try since Win7

yeah I think I'm going to try using a windows xp pc for it because it doesn't seem to play well with windows 10
thanks for the help!