Set to some incredibly bad techno music, a young hacker gives us a tour of what it is like to modify your PC-gaming experience (or in this case a Macbook Pro running Bootcamp) with the use of a Wiimote and Half-Life 2. Why you'd want to do this? I have absolutely no idea. Perhaps you've accomplished all you wanted to in life and you're looking for one more meaningless mountain to climb. Or maybe you really do want next-gen graphics to play your Wiimote to. Either way, check out the vid, but turn down the volume when he "cranks up the music," so that you don't have this idiotic music burned into your brain.
First of all, this guy has only mapped the TILT to control the mouse. This is all the usefulness of showing how you can turn your mouse upside down and move the cursor by sliding paper over the back of the mouse. Then say that laser mice suck because this bastardization of it's use is stupid.
If HL2 had the ability to move the aiming reticle around the screen, and the guy actually mapped the movement of the remote rather then it's tilt, it might be cool. Otherwise it's just as stupid as trying to play Metroid Prime 3 with a mouse, and saying they suck because it doesn't work right...
It loks like a pretty solid hack, seems to work pretty well aside from the issue of using two hands to crouch. What ever he has the Mlook mapped to, he needs to crank the sensitivity up, because the scrolling is way too slow.
I personally would've made it so that you hold it on it's side. Map 1 and 2 to shooting. Would make it a little 'better' for playing it. But the 1 handed setup is kinda nice.
I apologize if I wasn't clear, -I- felt the hack sucked. I've seen the hack in windows desktop, and while it's true that the Wiimote controls the pointer, it is slow and unwieldy. I would appreciate more of a pointer interface, something like a digitizer, but a FPS would be hard to play with a digitizer.
It would need the sensor bar or something to make that work... maybe in the future, they could make the Wiimote more like the Gyration mouse...
I think this is just one of those 'Hey look what I can do!' things. It's interesting, it's cool, but it is completely impractical and pro'lly took more time than it was actually worth.
However, I'm sure by doing it the guys who coded it gained some more insight into how the controller works, and can possibly use this in their future endeavors.
mogbert - baby steps my friend baby steps, first they have to hack the x and y axis then they can move on to adding a sensor bar and figuring out how interpret the information sent from the wiimote via bluetooth as to it's location in space.
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10:45 AM on 12.06.2006
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If HL2 had the ability to move the aiming reticle around the screen, and the guy actually mapped the movement of the remote rather then it's tilt, it might be cool. Otherwise it's just as stupid as trying to play Metroid Prime 3 with a mouse, and saying they suck because it doesn't work right...
It would need the sensor bar or something to make that work... maybe in the future, they could make the Wiimote more like the Gyration mouse...
Oh forget it, screw this. Why do I try, and why on earth are you paid?
However, I'm sure by doing it the guys who coded it gained some more insight into how the controller works, and can possibly use this in their future endeavors.