Mii Mega-Mall - Mii Download Application

SwiitPii has released his latest edition of Mii Transfer utilities... The Mii Mega-Mall.

This one has download abilities built right in, so you only need 1 application to load up celebrity Mii's to your wiimote to bus them over to the wii. Check out WiiDomain.net for more info.

The Mii Mega-Mall is an integrated approach to Mii sharing. What does that mean? It means that, now, instead of having to use many separate processes to get those adorable Mii off the Internet; you can use a single, streamlined approach through this one tool.

The Mii Mega Mall provides a single access-point, with a unified, consistent interface for sharing and retrieving Mii over the Internet. Everything that you need is included. It features

• Built-in RSS capabilities
• Download Mii from the Mega-Mall
• Multiple simultaneous downloads
• Transfer downloaded Mii to your wiimote (using Bluetooth)
• Copy Mii from your wiimote to your PC (using Bluetooth)
  
• Upload your own Mii to the Mii Mega-Mall to share with others

Download it from WiiDomain.net

Control TV with Wiimote

This was a special promo item given out to Nintendo Club Members in Japan. It does not have the hardware of a retail wiimote, it is simply a wii-mote shell with hardware inside to emit infared signals. Does anyone know how this is programmed? Is it a learning remote, or does it have preset codes for each brand of TV like a radioshack universal remote?




With bluetooth drivers for the Wii Remote on the way, it's only a matter of time before people (like me) are actually doing things like this with the real wii-motes. This is just a big tease as to what's to come in the next few months. Stay tuned for more info! Fun stuff is in development...

More Wii-Mote Hacking

I figured out a little trick with the wii-mote last night. The wii-mote is paired with the Wii, so you usually will not see it when you do a bluetooth 'discover all devices' on the PC.

But, If you press buttons 1 and 2 at the same time on the bottom of the wiimote it puts it into a discovery mode where the lights on the bottom are blinking. Now if you try to discover nearby devices on your pc you should see the wii-mote and can attempt to pair it.

UPDATE 11/26/06 5PM:
You can also put it into discovery mode by pressing the sync button under the battery cover. The remote doesn't actually have a passkey, however once it is connected, the 3 services it advertises are non standard bluetooth services. Until someone writes a wii-mote driver we can't do much with this hardware.

For specifics on the Wii's Bluetooth check out
WiiLii Wii Bluetooth Wiki Entry
and
WiiLi Wimote Driver Wiki

UPDATE 11/26/06 3AM:

Progress has been made! some developers have made the initial connection to the bluetooth remote and can now control the LEDS and force feedback.

The developer has posted a patch for getting bluetooth communication working and even posted a little script that makes the lights on the remote dance.

If you want to help you can join in on the conversation here on the Wiili forum.

UPDATE 11/26/06 11AM

Looks like it's time to break out the Math books, Andy on the Wiili forums has figured out how to log linear force data.

They have begun to write the algorithms which will be used to detect movement, speed and rotation of the wii-mote when it is connected to a pc or mac.

* Linear force data can be logged using a SET_REPORT HID request on Output channel 12. The first parameter is a force feedback parameter while the second must be 31. Some other 3X numbers work for the 2nd parameter and do different things, but I'm not sure what exactly. Logging can be turned back off using 30. (example to turn logging on: 52 12 02 31) When logging data data with 31 the last 3 bytes of data represent the forces with ~80 being 0 force. The 1st bit represents the side to side force, the 2nd is the lengthwise force and the 3rd is the up-down force.