Connecting a Wii U game pad
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Does anyone know if it's possible to hook up a Wii U game pad to a raspberry pi and use it on Retropie?
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@afunnyname let me know if this works for you...
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I apologize I worded this question poorly and it seemed like I wanted a controller. What I was actually asking for if it was possible to connect the second screen controller of the Wii U.
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@afunnyname Oh I see.... that's a good question. It doesn't run off of bluetooth I don't believe... so I don't know. Here is a quote from a different forum about getting it to work with PC.
"The Bluetooth connection only handles the controller inputs. Bluetooth doesn't have the bandwidth for A/V connections of anywhere near the quality that the GamePad uses.
The streaming is done by a highly customized and proprietary variant of 802.11n. It's not impossible that this could be replicated by a PC but it'd be tricky."
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@afunnyname Here is an emulator to emulate the gamepad on a phone or tablet... early stages
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I would be surprised if this was successfully done by someone. The video for the screen is streamed over a proprietary 5 GHz radio. A gentleman in a previous post said it's based on 802.11n and he could very well be right. Still I think it may be possible through a custom USB adapter of some kind, though the 480mbps throughput limit may turn out to be a constraint, not sure. Is it possible? I believe so yes. Is it something easy to do, almost certainly not. You would probably need to find an engineer to design a custom USB adapter to communicate with the pad.
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