Cbajd5
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The drclib website states this about the dongles:
I'm guessing this would be a good basis for what would be required in the future.
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Proper support for Wii U GamePad for PC is imminent (incl. video streaming)
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The drclib website states this about the dongles:
I'm guessing this would be a good basis for what would be required in the future.
tkscz
Member
As I know too many people who use them for straight up pirating. Makes me a little a shame to use them, as I only used them to play games I can't find or cost a fortune when I do find them.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
I try to get excited but that screen is trash.
More like
Woah this is awesome. Theres a lot of drawing programs I'd love to play on this portable device.
I don't care if it isn't pressure sensitive.
Lagless cintiq for less than 300 and comes with a Mario/Smash bros machine
rudieboy77
Member
If it can stream wireless from your PC, I'll buy a Wii U to play indie lo-fi games from bed at night.
Sounds like awesome work but how likely is it that this will ever enable low-latency streaming of all PC games? IRC, games must be on a supported list to be streaming by the Nvidia Shield, indicating that some kind of low-level driver magic is happening there.
Will somebody have to step forward and write new software to encode and transmit the PC display signal, or is there existing software to do so? If existing software will have to be adapted, how difficult will it be to keep the latency down?
The only thing I have confidence in is that streaming will be built in to the next version of Dolphin and other emulators, but I'm worried that reliable, low latency streaming of other games will never happen.
Will somebody have to step forward and write new software to encode and transmit the PC display signal, or is there existing software to do so? If existing software will have to be adapted, how difficult will it be to keep the latency down?
The only thing I have confidence in is that streaming will be built in to the next version of Dolphin and other emulators, but I'm worried that reliable, low latency streaming of other games will never happen.
shakin_haitian
Banned
Buy games, dickhead.
The WiiU gamepad is just a screen that can wirelessly receive a signal.
If you can set it up to be a second display then you would just play your games on your "second monitor". No real need for in-home streaming.
Emulation doesn't imply piracy duder.
The idea of running a DS emulator where the top screen is my TV and the bottom screen the touchpad (If the touchscreen worked omg) would be absolutely awesome.
Starfish Hero
Member
No offense 3D World, but this is ultimately the tipping point toward me getting a Wii U. If only I had money...
shakin_haitian
Banned
Yeah, I'm sure they'll be just demoing the games.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Well, emulators are just a tool so no reason to be ashamed.
ElectricKaibutsu
Member
Sounds good! And people complaining about the screen, you get free down sampling at least 
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.lol
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
This was exciting till I remembered that I can't take the gamepad out of the room without it telling me to come back. Will PC streaming have a different kind of connection or the same kind that needs to be close to work?
Fantastical
Death Prophet
This was something I had dreamed would happen for the Wii U! So happy that it's becoming reality. I really want to try this.
Xenoblade in Dolphin on the Wii U gamepad. :O
Xenoblade in Dolphin on the Wii U gamepad. :O
Or maybe they already bought the games before emulating them, poopyhead.
Wow, this is certainly exciting news. Will have to keep an eye on this and follow any updates. Having full access to Steam library on the Wii U Game Pad would be outstanding. For me, FTL jumps immediately to mind. Might be tough to implement a good control scheme though for FTL.
A Twisty Fluken
Member
So piracy isn't okay unless it's really expensive to not pirate. Hmm.
Lupin the Third
Member
It's not like you're changing the hard physical limitations of the hardware inside the pad. I doubt it's range will change much, although it can maybe get a practical boost if you modify where your WiFi AP rests in relation to your usual play area.
I use emulators regularly and I own multiple flashcarts.
I dump all of my games myself from my own collection. There's absolutely nothing wrong about it.
fabricated backlash
Member
Art Academy Scratch Pad is already godly, but I've been waiting for a proper digital drawing app since the damn WiiU launched. It boggles my head that Colors isn't available for it yet, given how active the 3DS community still is. (albeit it's mostly anime stuff now) but artists like MO.SAID, or Josh Hook continuously produce some awe inspiring stuff.
Btw, I actually might buy a second WiiU for this, so I can use that to mod later on.
Yep.
Related, I could load up retroarch and then have 60hz SNES titles on the gamepad, including Yoshi's Island rather than the shitty 50hz crap we are given here in the UK by Nintendo.
POWERSPHERE
Banned
Seeing as you can't buy gamepads, maybe this will help Wii Us sales.
ExFalsoQuodlibet
Member
Remote gaming in your bed is the last thing missing from PCs to catch up with consoles' convenience. Yeah, there's Nvidia Shield but it's expensive and no one cares about android gaming.
Ever since I put my hands on a Wii U controller my first thought was "I would be great to have something like that on PC".
Ever since I put my hands on a Wii U controller my first thought was "I would be great to have something like that on PC".
SporeCrawler
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EightBitNate
Member
Makes sense. Wii U is just a super-powered PC, after all.
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SkeptiMism
Member
They said they one of the things they eventually want to make it work with is your wireless internet connection (instead of the Wii U's built-in connection).
The difference is that playing Xenoblade on your Wii U, you can only use the Gamepad as a screen. By this thing, you could use it as a controller also.
OminoMichelin
Member
I wanted to watch the video, but the link in OP is broken.
Well, you get antialiasing, for one thing.
Also Xenoblade in bed was the first thing that came to mind.
Well you could use the GamePad as a controller as well instead of having to just use it as a screen. DKCR and Smash Bros on the GamePad sounds so good as well.
If this works out fine, then I'll just use this as a pseudo N64 VC using games I still own.
Robin64
Member
OminoMichelin
Member
Thanks!
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
They still don't sellit separately? Not worth buying the whole console for but potentially neat.
You need more than just 5GHz support. If you watch the actual presentation, working dongles are actually quite rare, and the few that do support all the required features apparently only do it on Linux because the features are not enabled in the Windows drivers. So you'll apparently need custom drivers to use this on Windows, which means you'll always be limited to a few chipsets.
Data Elemental
Member
The ROT3 protocol obfuscation is adorable.
The GamePad just receives a H.264 video stream at its screen resolution. That means it has to be encoded on the PC. Depending on what your PC can handle, you could either render directly at 854x480 or downscale a game that's rendered on the higher resolution. I wonder what the best approach for that would be; building a "dummy" display driver that encodes and sends video over network or some separate screen/render capturing software to do it. In the end it probably doesn't make much of a difference, since in both cases you need to first render graphics, then read them back out, send them to a video encoder and then send the stream over network.
Wrestlemania
Banned
You imply that Shield was ever alive in the first place.
It wouldn't really need support. It's just a video stream of whatever is playing plus controller input. If it works even remotely well it'll kill the Shield.