Hackers Reverse Engineer Wii U Gamepad

During a lecture entitled "Reverse engineering the Wii U Gamepad" hackers Pierre Bourdon and Shuffle2 demonstrated how they reverse engineered the peripheral to produce Gamecube emulated gameplay of the Legend of Zelda: Wind Walker on the device.

During the lecture they described how they went from a "32MB binary blob" to the proof of concept Wii U gamepad "emulation" on a PC. They also showed streaming of a drawing app from a PC to the gamepad.

The lecture is described below

When the Wii U was released, a few console hackers and I were talking about potential uses for the Wii U GamePad. However, before being able to use a Wii U GamePad as a remote controller for a robot or a quadricopter, the first step was to understand how it worked and how to communicate with it.

If you want to know more technical details the lecture slides are available online. A video of the lecture was available but has since been removed.