A group of hackers has Linux software is released that allows pc images, such as, for example, games, to a Wii U controller can be streamed. The software, which the code is open source, is still in the alpha stage and is mainly intended for developers.
The GamePad of the Wii U, which is more on a tablet than a controller, has a screen, but Nintendo offers standard support only from the Wii to the device to stream. The LibDRC software for Linux that the developers have released makes it for developers it was possible to take the GamePad in their software to integrate. ‘DRC’ is the codename of the GamePad.
The hackers demonstrated their software on the CCC-hackersconferentie in Hamburg, where she is an emulated version of Zelda: The Wind Waker for the GameCube successfully to the GamePad of the Wii U managed to stream. However, it crashed the software, but the developers of the tool emphasize that it is still alpha software.
To pc images to the GamePad to be able to stream, it was necessary to the operation of the device to find out: Nintendo gives no tools or documentation free. The hackers discovered that the GamePad with the Wii U communicates over a 5GHz wi-fi-connection, where the traffic is encrypted. This is the Wii U the access point with which the GamePad to connect.
Not all hardware is suitable for gameplaybeelden to the Wii U to stream, drawing the hackers: first of all, there must be support for the 5GHz band and, in addition, the driver has the so-called master mode support. That is required for setting up an access point and is not used by all manufacturers supported.
Now the developers know how the GamePad works, they want to use that knowledge to make an Android app where a normal tablet or an nVidia Shield as a controller for the Wii U can be used. They also want a Windows – and OS X-port of their tool to create, so also of those operating systems to the GamePad can be streamed, and they want to make it possible to images on the internet streaming.