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Steam Deck

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I used the Sunshine game streaming software and the WiiU homebrew port of Moonlight to get game streaming working on a WiiU gamepad. It's sort of like a bootleg Steam Deck, and it works surprisingly well, but it mostly just made me want a Steam Deck.

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[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

LMAO, I just set this up on my Wii U myself! Crazy coincidence.

[–] hunterirving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a fun little hack! I like how it's alllllllmost practical, but not quite :-) The biggest limitation for me right now if that I have to stay within 10 feet of my WiiU console or it has a bad time.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Idk if you have one already, but the Wii LAN adapter helps a lot with latency and bitrate. It won't help the limitations of the Wii U Gampads poor Signal strength, but its something :P

Also, moonlight works pretty alright on the 3DS and Switch if youre looking for more projects lol

[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you can't find an original adapter, I can confirm this one works. Most of the other ones I had laying around wouldn't work. I had to search for this one. It was only $15 when I got it in January 2025, not sure why it's $25 now

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Its any Ethernet adapter with the AX88772 chipset. I would also go for getting it from any other online seller :P

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