WJoy allows you to use Wii controllers as native gamepads on OS X.
The following controllers are supported
- Wii Remote
- Nunchuck
- Classic Controller
- Wii U Pro Controller
- Every other contoller supported by the original WJoy project
This project is a fork of the original (now unsupported) Wjoy project. WJoy-foohid uses foohid as the input driver rather than using the original (now unsupported) WJoy driver.
- Download and install the latest release of foohid: https://github.com/unbit/foohid/releases/latest
- Download and run the latest release of WJoy-foohid: https://github.com/tapesonthefloor/wjoy-foohid/releases/latest
- Ensure that bluetooth is enabled and then click the wiimote icon on the menu bar
- Click "start discovery" and then hit the red sync button on your Wii Remote or other accessory
- Once connected, your controller is ready to be used in any games that support native gamepads. Enjoy!
WJoy will now automatically calibrate the Wii U Pro Controller analog sticks on the fly so that they reach 100% of the analog stick range rather than being stuck around 60-70% range. To calibrate the sticks, simply move them in a few full circles so that WJoy can detect the range of motion for each stick.
Thanks to Kametrixom for this fix.
The analog sticks were underreporting diagonals in Steam titles (and perhaps elsewhere), so I've amplified both axes by 1.5 as a reasonable workaround for now. A bit of precision is lost, but it's vastly preferable to slow diagonals.
In OS X El Capitan (version 10.11), Apple added System Integrity Protection (AKA "rootless" mode) as a security feature. Among other things, this feature prevents the operating system from running unsigned kernel extensions (kexts). The original WJoy project included an unsigned kext to provide a virtual HID for each connected wiimote and thus the original project no longer works on modern versions of OS X.
Thankfully, you can still run kexts signed by Apple or by approved developers. That's where foohid comes in. foohid is a signed kext that allows programs to create virtual HID devices on demand -- exactly what we need. With foohid installed, we can use WJoy without having to disable important security features on the operating system.