GameCube to Wiimote adapter

Here's a video of a little gamecube pad to Wii Remote adapter that I rigged up. The console sees the adapter as a Classic Controller. It's missing some buttons (-, home, ZL), but those are rarely used (Start maps to +). This lets me play SSBB, Mario Kart, and VC games using a plain GameCube pad without having to use the questionable Classic Controller, and without a WaveBird. It also works with the System Menu, as you can see in the beginning of the video. Since WaveBirds are out of production, this is probably the only way of using an official Nintendo GameCube pad with the Wii, wirelessly.

The guts: a PIC18F4520 microcontroller, and that's pretty much it. A couple resistors and capacitors, and the quartz crystal are all that there is to the hardware part. I cut up a Nunchuk extension cord for the Wiimote plug, and made a crappy GC connector out of a piece of circuit board. This uses the Wii Remote's power supply. The big flashing board that you can see to the left is an FPGA used as a logic analyzer for debugging, but it has nothing to do with the actual adapter (I unplug it halfway through the video).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• wii
• wiimote
• gc
• wavebird
• gamecube
• pad
• diy
• homebrew
• adapter
• extension
• classic
• controller

[marcan42]

The point is that:

1) You can use this on the System Menu

2) You can use this on games that only support the Classic Controller (yes, they exist)

3) The controller is wireless (no, this is not my usual gaming setup, and yes, wireless does help the way I normally have my Wii set up)

4) The controller is still responsive using this (this is why I shot a Mario Kart test).

5) I felt like building this anyway.

I obviously know Mario Kart can be played with a Gamecube controller natively.

[grimvolt]

that wasn't the point of the video, the point was to show us that he can start up his wii game with his gamecube controller

[Hazeo]

IM THROWING MY MONEY AT THE SCREEN AND NOTHING IS HAPPENING

[BowserN64]

You've got a great sound system man!

[Vriess123]

K this needs to be made so we can buy it, NOW

[TheJonathanMontuma]

give me ur friend code and i will give u mine

[milun2]

Please, please, pleeeeeeease upload a tutorial on how to make this. I want to prepare for the WiiU.

[Oshtoby]

With Smash Brother for the WiiU sure to have Classic Controller support, and the WiiU to NOT have Gamecube controller support, I would love to have something like this.

[Zeldamoron]

@marcan42 Hmmm, do you think you could actually market this online? As the Wii U releases I can see this becoming an amazingly popular device!

[Laser211521]

omg i would love to use the gamecube controller on wii black ops but it doesnt support it, i have to use the CCP, do you know where i can get a gamcube to CC adapter

[ExtremeYoshiFan]

Interesting concept. I have been looking at all sorts of controller to wiimote solutions. I am considering adapting super famicom controllers to wii remotes to save some cash on the official club nintendo ones.

Oh yeah, and Linux for the Win.

[aladrink]

I don't suppose you'd consider releasing your design for this?