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Ooh this is fun actually will check this out. I have my Gamecube gathering dust somewhere, great excuse to bring it out. I'm half joking, but the cynic in me w

Ooh this is fun actually will check this out. I have my Gamecube gathering dust somewhere, great excuse to bring it out. I'm half joking, but the cynic in me worries that a company line Nintento will have some patents on something here and not appreciate the MIT licensing.

zorked 1y ago
The WaveBird controller was released over 20 years ago, so a any patent protection it could have is gone. Also, not a reason not to do things.
kop316 1y ago
I thought about implementing something similar (I read through the reverse engineering docs). All of the information was done through clean room reverse engineering (the reason it took so long for something like this is that Nintendo used a very wonky wireless protocol). As such, I don't see what they could sue for, as that is entirely legal (at least in the US).
- roblabla 1y ago
  Well clean-room reverse engineering doesn't protect you from patent infringement - only for copyright related issues. I don't think that's a real concern for your project though, as patents only last for 20 years, so most if not all patents related to the WaveBird should have expired already. Of course, I am not a lawyer :^).
  - kop316 1y ago
    > Well clean-room reverse engineering doesn't protect you from patent infringement That's fair! What is would offer is in going through the protocol, there's nothing that is patent-able (it's all bog standard wireless protocols).
simlevesque 1y ago
BlueRetro GameCube has been around for quite some time. https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro
loopj 1y ago
I have two things going for me here, 1) this was completely clean room reverse engineered, and 2) the patents have all expired!
- IlikeKitties 1y ago
  Nintendo has two things going for them though: 1. They have Billions of Dollars 2. They don't give a fuck about suing smaller creators into oblivion. I wish you all the best but seriously, fuck nintendo.

zorked 1y ago

The WaveBird controller was released over 20 years ago, so a any patent protection it could have is gone. Also, not a reason not to do things.

kop316 1y ago

I thought about implementing something similar (I read through the reverse engineering docs). All of the information was done through clean room reverse engineering (the reason it took so long for something like this is that Nintendo used a very wonky wireless protocol). As such, I don't see what they could sue for, as that is entirely legal (at least in the US).

roblabla 1y ago
Well clean-room reverse engineering doesn't protect you from patent infringement - only for copyright related issues. I don't think that's a real concern for your project though, as patents only last for 20 years, so most if not all patents related to the WaveBird should have expired already. Of course, I am not a lawyer :^).
- kop316 1y ago
  > Well clean-room reverse engineering doesn't protect you from patent infringement That's fair! What is would offer is in going through the protocol, there's nothing that is patent-able (it's all bog standard wireless protocols).

simlevesque 1y ago

BlueRetro GameCube has been around for quite some time. https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro

loopj 1y ago

I have two things going for me here, 1) this was completely clean room reverse engineered, and 2) the patents have all expired!

IlikeKitties 1y ago
Nintendo has two things going for them though: 1. They have Billions of Dollars 2. They don't give a fuck about suing smaller creators into oblivion. I wish you all the best but seriously, fuck nintendo.