Hey there, Guest! Voting is now open on new trophies to add to the forum, so swing by and cast your vote in the New Community Trophy Contest Poll here! 114 Comments on Wii U Pro Controller Now Working With PC And Mac TeHaxor69 from the GBAtemp forums has managed to get the Wii U Pro Controller working on both Windows and Mac. All you need to do is add your Wii U Pro Controller in the Windows Bluetooth Manager, don’t use a PIN, then start the application.
Reader Chris is doing the world a great service with his work transforming the Wii U's big pad into something you can use on a PC.
The video above shows how you can re-map the pad to almost everything needed for a game's input, meaning if you can configure it, you can use it for most contemporary titles as well (or, say, the Dolphin emulator).
Chris tells us the first pending update will add touch-screen support to the pad, while in the future he's also working on getting streaming working, so that you could play a PC game on the controller.
You can download the necessary files here.
Wii U GamePad to PC Controller - Download in Description [Chris Manning]
Wiiu Pro Controller Driver For Pc Download
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This how-to will explain the fairly easy setup of a Wii U Pro Controller (or any Wii controller) within a jessie based RetroPie Setup. After the setup the controller will connect automatically when it is turned on and can be disconnected off with the power button on the controller.The steps are based on the XWiimote description in the ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XWiimote
This will only work on Debian Jessie based distributions. So you either have to get the latest Raspbian version (Debian Jessie based) and use the RetroPie-Setup script or use RetroPie 3.5.
Either open the commandline on the pi by exiting emulationstation or ssh into it
Ensure your bluetooth adapter is setup correctly and working
Enter 'sudo bluetoothctl' command
The bluetooth control input should open, now type in the following commands in this order (you can use the TAB key to auto complete the mac address for the pair and connect command)
Now you're done, press any button on the controller and it should connect, press the power button and it should disconnect, it also persists after a reboot
Wii U Gamepad Controller
There is a github project you can easily install that will light up the appropriate lights on your controllers based upon their order on your system. It's just a matter of running 2 commands on your pi. The project is found here: https://github.com/pyhammond/retropie_wiimote_lights