You’ve invited friends around for a big game night, but as you’re sorting out the drinks, you notice you’re short of game controllers. Or perhaps your usual PC game controller has finally worn out, and you need a replacement – fast?
In both cases, your eyes might drift to the Nintendo Wii U console, sat on the shelf largely unused. Surely you can’t possibly connect a Wii U or Wii U Pro controller to your Windows gaming PC?
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Wii U Gamepad on a PC?
The classic Wii U gamepad – the one that ships with the Wii U console, complete with its own touchscreen display – can, incredibly, be used to play games on Windows. This setup requires you to have the Wii U switched on, and have your Windows PC setup to run as a web server, which is a lot easier than it sounds.
Simply press Windows + Q and type windows features, selecting Turn Windows features on or off in the results. In the resulting pop-up, scroll to Internet Information Services and place a check in the box, then click OK to have the feature added. A short while later, your Windows PC will have the capability to act as a local web server.
Once you’ve done this, press WINDOWS + R, and enter cmd to open a command prompt. Here, enter ipconfig to list all active network devices and their IP addresses. Look for the IPv4 address for your Ethernet or Wireless networking adapter – this will list your PC’s IP address, so make a note of it.
Next, head to this German WiiU hacks forum. Don’t speak German? Don’t worry, you can use Google translate to read the content and register before downloading the GamePadtoPC.rar file (registration is necessary).
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Once downloaded, extract the contents into the C:\inetpub\wwwroot folder, and open index.html in your favorite text editor, changing the IP address that points to server.js to your PC’s local IP address, which you earlier made a note of.
You should now run regplugin.bat to register the necessary components.
Before setting up the connection from your Wii U Gamepad to your PC, run simpleserver.bat.
With your Wii U switched on, grab the gamepad, open the browser, and navigate to the files you extracted into the wwwroot folder. The URL will look something like this: http://192.168.0.4/wiiu/.
Follow this on your PC by opening the pc.html page at http://localhost/wiiu/pc.html, where you should configure your controls as necessary. Your Wii U Gamepad can now be used as a controller on your Windows PC.
The Quicker Method
You can also achieve all of the above in a more streamlined manner using the U Send Mii software, available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions [No Longer Available]. See this video for the full steps.
But What about a Wii U Pro Controller?
You can also sync a Wii U Pro controller with your Windows PC.
Windows 8 and Windows 10 users can easily connect their Wii U controllers, and use them just as easily as they can on the Wii U console. This is done thanks to the WiinUPro software – download the latest version (with a name like wiinusoft_[VERSIONNUMBER]_setup.exe) from the website.
Because the Wii U controller communicates via Bluetooth, the third component you’ll need is the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack, which you should download and install.
Finally, download VJoy, a tool for configuring the Wii U controller once connected.
Installation means running the .EXE file which starts off by extracting the constituent files, however, you may run into problems here, so hold off for now.
Disable Microsoft’s Driver Autodetect
You should be able to install the Bluetooth stack, but if not, there is a workaround to install unsigned drivers.
How Can I Install Hardware With Unsigned Drivers in Windows 8?
To protect the average user, Windows 8 requires all hardware drivers have a digital signature before you can install them, making it more difficult to install malicious drivers.
In Windows Vista and 7, press F8 as your computer is booting up, and select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement. You should then be able to install as intended after Windows boots
Windows 8 and later have an autodetect system for drivers, which put simply means that the most drivers are deemed “most suitable” are installed – occasionally in place of the ones you really want.
In order to get around this, things will get a little fiddly, if ultimately successful. It basically means that you will need to reboot Windows into Advanced startup mode, temporarily disabling a key security-related setting.
We’ve previously explained the various startup modes for Windows 8 (and similarly for Windows 10); to recap, open the Charms bar and click Settings > Change PC Settings > General > Advanced Startup > Restart (Windows 10 has ditched the Charms bar; instead open All Settings > Update & security > Recovery > Restart Now).
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