Turbiine

This is an Aroma plugin to turn any Wii U controller into a turbo controller.

Turbiine is the turbocharged shortcut to gaming greatness.

Blast your way to victory with the ultimate gaming weapon!

It’s time to level up your game!

Usage

• Activate the toggle shortcut (e.g. TV + ZL on the Gamepad.)

• Press any button; it will turn turbo on (or off) for that button.

Note: Only the controller where you activated the shortcut will be modified.

Note: Turbo is disabled every time you start a game, or return to the Wii U Menu.

Configuration

To configure the plugin, open the Plugin Config Menu (L + DOWN + SELECT) and enter the Turbiine plugin, to access the options:

• Enabled: Enables or disables the plugin.

• Period: The time interval between turbo actions. Pressing the button is one action, releasing the button is one action. For instance, a value of 50 ms will make the button be held down for 50 ms, then released for 50 ms, and so on; so a full press-then-release cycle is 50+50 = 100 ms, giving you 10 button presses per second (bps). The default is 16 ms, which produces roughly 30 bps.

  Note: some games restrict how fast they will register button presses, so you might need to increase the period.

  Note: turbo actions can only happen when the game checks the controller's buttons. If a game only reads inputs 30 times per second, the plugin can only generate up to 30 actions per second, or 15 bps.

• Toggle turbo 1, 2, 3: Sets the button shortcut for turning turbo on or off.

  1. Press A on the shortcut you want to change.

  2. Hold down the buttons you want to use for the button shortcut, until they are registered.

  3. Release all the buttons.

  4. Press either:

     • A to confirm the new button shortcut;

     • B to cancel;

     • X/1 to reset to the default button shortcut.

  If you leave the button shortcut empty, because you didn't hold any buttons long enough in step ii, the shortcut will be considered disabled.

• Disable all turbos...: Immediately disables all turbos on all controllers. All buttons go back to normal.

Build instructions

This is a standard Automake package; a Docker build script is also provided.

Building with Automake

Dependencies

• wut - currently, the devkitPro package is too old, you will need to compile and install the current wut from the repository.

• WiiUPluginSystem

• libnotifications

• libbuttoncombo

If you got a release tarball (.tar.gz) you can skip step 0.

0. ./bootstrap

1. ./configure --host=powerpc-eabi CXXFLAGS='-Os'

2. make

3. (optional) If your Wii U is named wiiu in your local network, you can also use these:

   • make install: install via ftp, requires curl in your system.

   • make uninstall: uninstall via ftp, requires curl in your system.

   • make run: load the plugin without installing, requires wiiload package from devkitPro.

Building with Docker

Run the ./docker-build.sh script.