Playing Gyromite on Wii with R.O.B. - possible?

**Jive3D** · 11-30-2008, 12:11 PM

Random thought, I've been playing with the fantastic NES emulation per the Homebrew Channel on the Wii.

Since the Wii-motes are similar in style to the original NES controllers - would it be possible to play Gyromite with R.O.B. but on the Wii? I think that the NES controller A/B buttons were slightly concave and I'm not sure if the Gyros rested within that area on the buttons when playing or not (I have my R.O.B. in storage somewhere) - but interested what anyone thinks and if this might be possible?

**Frankie_Says_Relax** · 11-30-2008, 01:25 PM

No. There's no way you'd get the Wii controller to fit in the Gyro Aparatus without completely modifiying the entire setup.

The Gyros didn't even rest on the controller buttons anyway, they rested in holders that pressed down the controller buttons via levers.

If you're playing your Wii on a standard, non flat screen TV (like a Zapper, R.O.B. won't be able to see the flashes on a flat screen) you might be able to use a RetroUSB.com NES controller adapter to get the whole thing to work.

http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?productID=121

**rbudrick** · 11-30-2008, 06:40 PM

Perhaps if you managed to hack the Gyromite rom to get on the wii, then used a NES to Wii adapter to get the controller attached, and then put the whole setup on a CRT TV, then it may work.

-Rob

**Frankie_Says_Relax** · 11-30-2008, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by rbudrick

Perhaps if you managed to hack the Gyromite rom to get on the wii, then used a NES to Wii adapter to get the controller attached, and then put the whole setup on a CRT TV, then it may work.

-Rob

....whiiiiich is exactly what he said he did, and what I suggested he should do in response.

**Blitzwing256** · 11-30-2008, 08:53 PM

you could just install it on the ehem homebrew channel to test it out, but as long as you don't have a newer tv and have that retro thing it would work just fine.

**Graham Mitchell** · 12-01-2008, 09:30 PM

This is random, but I'm so pissed that I'm no longer able to play Gumshoe. Nintendo really should rig something up with the Wiimote for some VC zapper games. I doubt they'd ever apply that to Gyromite, though.

Gyromite and Stack-up have a cool presentation, too. They should revive that series. They could make it into some kind of high-tech puzzle game like Portals or something.