Wii IR sensor finds new home in NES Zapper

While we continue to wait for Nintendo to go official with its "Zapper Style" shell for the Wiimote, enterprising hackers have some Far Cry Vengeance to smack down, and AcidMod's "cyberpyrot" is doing it old school. The hack is about as simple as they come, he merely rewired the Wiimote's IR sensor to the front of his NES Zapper, and hooked up the trigger to the Wiimote's trigger button. He plans to strap the Wiimote to his wrist, for easy access weapon changes, and while the mod is lacking in elegance, cyberpyrot claims his FPS performance has "vastly improved." Alright Nintendo, your turn. Video is after the break.

[CowboyGA @ Jun 25th 2007 12:42PM]

Strange - I was saddened by the destruction of the Wiimote but not the Zapper.

As far as the Far Cry port is concerned, I think I'd rather have a healthy Wiimote than more time with the game.

[Alex Jacobs @ Jun 25th 2007 12:56PM]

hahaha, i love the half dead PSP in the pile of hacked stuff at the back of the pic.

[LukeA @ Jun 25th 2007 2:28PM]

How can you tell it's only half dead?

[Aaron @ Jun 25th 2007 2:15PM]

Ahh... it's been so many years, but I can still clearly hear in my mind the "click-sproing" noise of the Zapper trigger... Good times.

[Rainier @ Jun 25th 2007 4:20PM]

What's holding up that Wiimote in the pic, velcro?

[JohnTitor @ Jun 25th 2007 10:02PM]

surgery

[Kevin @ Aug 19th 2007 7:55PM]

Gravity. It says in the post that the straps haven't been worked out yet.

[Noga Rosenthal @ Jun 25th 2007 7:02PM]

Pure genius!

- Noga Rosenthal

[John Zhang @ Jun 26th 2007 2:02AM]

He could have just rewired it and taped the wiimote off to the right of the gun. ez accesable and more realistic