Why You Should Buy Official Nintendo Products For Your Android

[time pilot aka]

After successfully getting a Wiimote to hook up to my Nook and emulators, I decided to order a classic controller so I could play SNES/PSX/N64 games. In a bought of cheapskatedness, I ordered a bootleg classic controller so I could save a whopping $5. One of those ones not officially branded by Nintendo and sold direct from the back of a van in Hong Kong. Apparently those don't work.

Wiicontroller IME doesn't recognize its device id. And if I go to map buttons in my emulators, no keypresses are registered. So this weekend I'll go to Wal-Mart and spend another $20 to buy a real one.

Moral of story: Buy officially licensed Nintendo products!

 

[magicalsleeper]

I want to get some Datel brand controllers up in this rig! Speaking of official licensed ninty products, I wonder if that slim logitech keyboard would work nicely, iirc its a perfect size...

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[time pilot aka]

I want to get some Datel brand controllers up in this rig! Speaking of official licensed ninty products, I wonder if that slim logitech keyboard would work nicely, iirc its a perfect size...

Sent from my PC36100

Any BT keyboard is going to [presumably] be fine as a keyboard. The problem I have with this non-Nintendo controller is that the Wiimote IME doesn't recognize the device ID of the attachment, so it doesn't know how to interpret the signals coming from it (even though it might be exactly the same as an official CC). You might have the same problem with the Datel controllers, now that I think about it.

 

[mooja]

my main problem is that i can get wiimotes to pair, but i cant get any emulators or anything to use it

 

[Nburnes]

my main problem is that i can get wiimotes to pair, but i cant get any emulators or anything to use it

You are making sure to Select the Wiimote controller IME as the main keyboard, and also making sure to map the keys inside the emulators right?

 

[jwhited]

Speaking of the Datel wireless classic controllers, does anyone know where to get one of these? I was searching in vain a few days ago, and I'd love to snatch one of those bad boys up.

 

[magicalsleeper]

Ive only seen it available on the codejunkies site, dunno if its really available though...

http://us.codejunkies.com/Products/Wii-Wireless-Retro-Controller__EF000622.aspx

Speaking of the Datel wireless classic controllers, does anyone know where to get one of these? I was searching in vain a few days ago, and I'd love to snatch one of those bad boys up.

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