{"id":10,"date":"2006-12-18T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.galador.org\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2006-12-18T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T16:49:01","slug":"the-wiimote-working-on-the-playstation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/the-wiimote-working-on-the-playstation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wiimote Working on the Playstation 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Japanese Group has taken it upon themselves to do the unthinkable — to get the Wiimote to work on the Playstation 3. And they’ve succeeded. To get it to work, the group wrote a Wiimote driver for Linux, and ported that driver over to the version of Linux that the PS3 runs (it wasn’t made clear whether it was the official Yellow Dog Linux<\/a>, Fedora Core<\/a>, or Gentoo<\/a>, all of which have been reported to work with the PS3).<\/p>\n

There’s not much information on the announcement page<\/a> except for a few screenshots and pictures of the Wiimote hooked up to the PS3, and the driver information page, but it looks to be legit.<\/p>\n

Now, on to my argument: Why? I mean, seriously, it’s not like you’re even going to be close to playing any PS3 game while using the Wiimote. Unless they make like a Wii Emulator for the PS3 (which would be cool, but pretty useless especially considering that you cna almost get 3 Wiis for the cost of one PS3), then there’s really no point to having the ability to hook up your Wiimote to your PS3. I suppose it’s one of those, “Hey, look what we can do!” things, but there’s no purpose, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Japanese Group has taken it upon themselves to do the unthinkable — to get the Wiimote to work on the Playstation 3. And they’ve succeeded. To get it to work, the group wrote a Wiimote driver for Linux, and ported that driver over to the version of Linux that the PS3 runs (it wasn’t … Continue reading The Wiimote Working on the Playstation 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}