Here's a piece of news I recently stumbled upon and found quite interesting, to say the least. A guy going by the name of Aussie Mark Feldman has apparently found a way to make NES and SNES controllers work on the Wii platform...here it comes: WIRELESLY. His first advice-if anyone is to try and do it themselves is: "While this hack doesn't demand much skill in electronics you will need good soldering skills plus hardware to program the two 16F84A microcontrollers. If you don't already have a PIC programmer then you'll need to get one."

Although it's really great to see that some actually like spending their time making all sorts of gizmos and inventions, not just wasting time playing WoW 24/7, I just don't see the point for wireless NES and SNES controllers, modded to suit Wii gameplay. Surely they don't perform as well and the older the controllers are, the better chance their buttons won't work properly after some serious usage (remember that the SNES's controllers used to brake on a regular basis; only after launching the Nintendo 64 did the company improve their controllers).

Still, I'm sure Feldman didn't have mass production in mind and the only reason he probably did it for, as most inventors do, is simply because it could be done. Chances are his invention is already sitting in a dusty drawer somewhere, having realized himself that nothing compares to the Wii's original pads.