9th December 2007, 1:07 AM
Actually they don't use their own proprietary software setup.
It's blutooth. I know it's a little weird considering how Nintendo usually goes straight proprietary but they are using an existing standard. Now that doesn't mean that everything's naked in the breeze, there's still interpreting what parts of the signal mean what, but the signal itself? Easy enough to find and recieve and send back to.
As ABF said, they already have fully functional Wii controller drivers on PC. Unofficial, but they are there.
http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie_download
One thing I hadn't thought of though. The PS3 uses blutooth, but I think the 360 does in fact use a proprietary format and doesn't support bluetooth at all... They'd have to use a USB adapter :D.
GR, with that said, what about what I said is ridiculous? I don't "know it". Explain it to me.
It's blutooth. I know it's a little weird considering how Nintendo usually goes straight proprietary but they are using an existing standard. Now that doesn't mean that everything's naked in the breeze, there's still interpreting what parts of the signal mean what, but the signal itself? Easy enough to find and recieve and send back to.
As ABF said, they already have fully functional Wii controller drivers on PC. Unofficial, but they are there.
http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie_download
One thing I hadn't thought of though. The PS3 uses blutooth, but I think the 360 does in fact use a proprietary format and doesn't support bluetooth at all... They'd have to use a USB adapter :D.
GR, with that said, what about what I said is ridiculous? I don't "know it". Explain it to me.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)