What's a
Wii fanboy to do without a Wii to call his own? Hack one up himself, of course. Bigjohn8411 found himself in just such a predicament, so he scraped together a "Wii OS" launcher program for his PC just to feel like one of the cool kids. Other than accepting Wiimote input over Bluetooth via
GlovePIE, the program is mostly a complete rip of Nintendo's own Wii interface, with Wii sound effects pulled out of YouTube videos, and the interface built from scratch, but referencing the real thing. Of course, that Red Steel button, it does nothing, but most of the rest of the launcher buttons shoot you right into that game's respective emulator. You can also toss in up to four of your own MP3s for background music if you find Nintendo's own to be a bit too sleep inducing. Now the only question is if Nintendo will be launching Chrono Trigger for Virtual Console before it hits this guy with a C&D. Somehow, we doubt it.
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posted Feb 5th 2007 1:17PM
Or, for that shiny Wii look on your boring PC, you could just get a Mac.
Or, for that shiny Wii look on your boring PC, you could just get a Mac.
cortana86, sounds like you would qualify more for the Engadget writing position than I would. I have little doubt that the answer to the "list three of your favorite gadgets of all time." question is a major part of the likelihood of getting the job.
I suspect my 25+ years in the tech industry and 7 years of semipro writing experience just wouldn't stack up to your Mac obsession qualification.
You have 25+ years of experience in the tech industry, and you're applying to BLOG at Engadget? Being petty about it, no less.
do you need a wiimote?
No your mouse will work just fine.
glacia, i think cortana could just be joking, nothing serious, come on, wheres your spirit?
and fred: yes, you do use the wiimote, but not like on the wii, like you would on a man/pc, by tilting it and using the motion sensors rather than the pointers, which is ridiculously slow, but it still looks like a Wii.
But hey, this is old, i saw it on Wii Fanboy a while ago, and actually, they have a Video, the redsteel part is fake :P
What a shitty little tech demo. This thing really doesn't do anything besides emulate the Wii interface (and it looks shitty at that). To run this crap you have to change the resolution of your screen to 800x600 else it wont run. Don't waste your time on this. It barely acts like the real thing.
personally, i dont think it is how he says it is.
He has the skills to program that interface, but doesnt have the money to buy a wii?
& he has a wii mote.
Personally I think he found a way to rip the interface from the wii, and came up with the I dont have a wii so i created one story to protect himself.
Does he have any VC games loaded in that do not exist on VC? He said he added his favorite games, but they have all been released for VC. Why not load something that VC doesnt have?
Nice try at CYA, but i dont think it will work. You ripped it off of the wii some how. Otherwise with your skills you could make atleast $250US and get a wii.
Part of the problem isn't really having the money, it's actually finding the system.
gawd! Yeah I used ms paint and ulead gif animator. bahhh lol!! Ok if he used,
Photoshop
3d program
maybe some hint that he knows how to program. I just wiggle this wii mote thingy around the screen and it just works you know?
How about this, video program, shitty camcorder, your buddies wii you borrowed, and a tv capture card.
I never said it was serious just tired and immature. I long ago stopped caring how ridiculously obsessed people are but it does get old doesn't it? Wouldn't it be great to have a website somewhere by and for people who actually liked tech instead of just tech from one specific company?
Wired.com for instance long ago became nothing more than a newsletter for 'a specific company'. Engadget and numerous others can't even pretend they don't have an obvious bias.
How about just giving the facts pro and con without the in your face obvious nastiness? Why has every tech website become Jerry Springerized?
Thanks Charles, I was indeed joking. Sorry if I offended you, glacia. This post doesn't have much to do with the Engadget writing positions, but I was also thinking of applying. I might suggest
trying to lighten up a bit.
And what "in your face nastiness" did I offer? I didn't mean to offer any, for sure. I think they have become "Jerry Springerized" as you say because of people who comment on how rediculous other people's comments are? Look at us. Let's chill.
@Joseph
it could be less to do with the money and more to do with the difficulty of obtaining a wii. the wiimote and sensor he probably borrowed from his friend
"lol, weather"
Whoops. Sorry for the repost of the original comment, it was an accident.
I realize I'm in the minority in that I actually *have* a Wii, but is there such a need for the Wii in people's lives that it's worth going through this sort of thing to *pretend* that you have a Wii? Guys, turst me.
It's a fun console and I'm glad that I was lucky enough to get one when I did, but this is going just a "wii" bit too far. Just my opinion, of course. YMMV.
cortana86. I didn't take it seriously and was far from offended by your comment. I simply thought it was tired. If I was offended by or even bothered by everything that was tired and overdone I would have time for little else. Also unless you thought I was suggesting that you should be "giving the facts pro and con" I don't see how you thought I was referring to you when talking about "in your face obvious nastiness."
At any rate you and Charles did manage to take things out of context misinterpret them and generally confuse the issue.
I thought this was much cooler until i actually DLed it to see it as a Low Resolution PoS, which I can tell really was made in paint...
Computer operating systems could learn a thing or two from videos games. People can operate a video game GUI without any prior knowledge, something you can't do with Windows, OS X, or Linux.