WeeP5 a Wii zapper on steroids

posted Dec 26th 2008 10:17am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: nintendo hacks, wii hacks

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This is the WeeP5, a fully functional Wii controller gun that looks like an MP5. [TheOreos] found the original zapper attachments to be lacking in several areas. His solution was to build a controller, integrated into an existing gun design with all the buttons exactly where he wanted them. He picked up a toy MP5 and sacrificed a Wiimote for the cause. He did a fantastic job, it looks great and, according to him, works well too. He may want to consider putting an orange tip on it though, just to keep from spooking the police.

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Lovely job.
But please edit the article and remove the comment regarding the orange tip.

The *only* effect the orange-tip law on toy-gun’s will have is criminals painting their real gun’s orange and shooting cops.

The link you have in the article has nothng to do with gun-safety, it’s just a tragic story about suicide-by-cop, and painting the tip black is hardly a hack.

Posted at 10:35 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by Dowser

agree with above, having the gun painted is kind of useless. Just don’t bring it outside the house or if you do conceal it inside a bag or something like that.

Neat hack, by the way.

Posted at 10:58 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by IceBrain

Really? How many criminals do you think check this website for hacks. I’d think it’s a fair assumption that if someone is a criminal, they are because they don’t have the means to live (or they’re addicted to something) and in all likelyhood don’t have the money to build hacks or even the inclination to read a website about hacks. I know that might be too much of a stretch to apply to all criminals, but seriously? That comment is ridiculous.

Posted at 11:27 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by David

Awesome hack. I can’t imagine why you’d be wondering the streets with a wii gun anyway – unless of course you had a portable wii :) orange tips always struck me as somewhat of a pointless idea.

as for the comment about criminals — there are a LOT more intelligent criminals than there are unintelligent ones. The only reason people think criminals are all ‘idiotic drug addicts’ is because those are the majority of the ones we see before the courts.

Posted at 11:38 am on Dec 26th, 2008 by wijomas

I’ve know drug dealers, and robbers, none of them casually browsed the internet for ideas.

BTW you can buy airsoft guns without orange tips I think.

Posted at 12:45 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by TJHooker

tjhooker speaks the truth

orange tips are a waste of time. point anything at a person thats resembles a gun, reguardless of the color, and they’re gonna have you on the ground.

as far as the mod, pretty cool! i don’t care much for shooters for the wii tho.

Posted at 12:50 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by lioorg

Don’t point the gun at a cop?

Posted at 1:05 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by thethirdmoose

david: Regardless if there are any weapon-using criminals reading this webpage, giving *anyone* an idea that pointing a orange-tip thing that vagely resembles a gun at another armed person is just bad.

Or mabye it’s a genious way to cleanse the gene pool? In that case, don’t edit the article.

Posted at 1:07 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by Dowser

And a comment regarding the good original hack and the orange tip:
Having done such a great job with making the toy look like the real thing, I really understand if he doesn’t like the idea of adding a splash of color to make it look like a toy again. :)

Posted at 1:11 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by Dowser

it’s all about natural selection, if you are stupid enough to point something at a cop you deserve what you get….

Posted at 4:19 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by Jon

You Americans, so paranoid that u shoot kids with toys! Damn, I sometimes ask my self, where did you people go wrong!!!

Posted at 4:39 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by non

I hate to be that guy who uses common sense, but if they can use computer software they know not to point weapons, real or fake, at anyone.

I know a lot of the suburban twats from makezine come here though, and analyze everything through their cliche thick frame glasses and macbook screens though, so we’d better keep it pc(no pun intended.)

Posted at 4:46 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by TJHooker

I think it’s a cool idea.

Along with the general discussion about orange tips, I doubt anyone on here is dumb enough to kill someone and be seen doing it. Murder is always a dumb idea, but the kind of people that hack should be smart enough to do it right.

Posted at 5:42 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by icefox

To end the orange tip discussion:

The maker of this awesome hack mentioned that he lives in germany, where there are no laws about marking toy guns with orange tips.

Posted at 6:33 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by root-at-

so i think it’s my turn now =)there’s now special law in germany wich says that you have to have an orange tip neither on an air-soft gun nor on a toygun. it’s because beeing allowed to have a gun in germany is realy really complicated in germany. for example if you want to call a mp5 (a real one) you hace to be in a gun club for at least 3 years and then you have to make you huntin license, which will take you about another 2 years and A LOT of lerning. there’s no way to go to a gun store and just get it because you like it.
i removed the orange tip because first i couldn’t disassemble the toy mp5 with it and even if i could it would still disturb me.
whereever you live on this worls: aiming with a mp5 clone (toy or real, with or without a orange tip) on a policeman will get you in trouble, allways =)it would also be a bad idea to shoot a ploiceman using the b button ;)

Posted at 8:32 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by THeOReos

pls deleta post above!

so i think it’s my turn now =)there’s now special law in germany wich says that you have to have an orange tip neither on an air-soft gun nor on a toygun. i guess it’s because beeing allowed to have a real gun in germany is really, really complicated. for example if you want to call a mp5 (a real one) your own you have to be in a gun club for at least 3 years and then you have to make you hunting license, which will take you about another 2 years and A LOT of learning. there’s no way to go to a gun store and just get it because you like it.
i removed the orange tip because first i couldn’t disassemble the toygun mp5 with it and even if i could it would still disturb me.
whereever you live on this world: aiming with a mp5 (toy or real, with or without an orange tip) on a policeman will get you in trouble, allways =)it would also be a bad idea to shoot a policeman using the b button ;)

Posted at 8:34 pm on Dec 26th, 2008 by THeOReos

First let me say this hack is great. I would think the first round of comments would be about how much better you could aim with this on wii Duck Hunt than with just a wiimote in hand. I really didn’t want to add to the orange tip debacle cause it’s distracting from the hack, but nobody pointed this out yet….

If you point this at anyone it’s assault!! Assault is any time you threaten someone with serious injury. If you pull a knife, gun, or any other weapon, you have committed a crime if you don’t have good cause to have done so.

I have a carry permit and can tell you this… If I see you with a gun, even if I know it’s real or know it’s fake, I will do nothing except watch you more carefully. If you point it at me and are acting like it’s real, you will get shot. If I feel as though my life is being threatened, then you are either going to jail or the morgue, but you’re not walking away.

Read the last few lines of theoreos comment again if you have any questions.

Posted at 12:07 pm on Dec 27th, 2008 by msl

Pointing a gun at a cop, real or not, is just a dumb idea. Also, the “orange tip” law is stupid. Anyone can paint a real gun to look like a toy. Just check what this guy did for his wife:

http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2007/12/26/hello-kitty-ar-15—evil-black-rifle-meets-cute-and.aspx

Posted at 6:39 pm on Dec 27th, 2008 by JB

Wow what a bunch of fucking faggots, this is the best mod I’ve ever seen and the comments are filled with some pansy ass orange tip discussion, and some Eurofags have to tell us how the law is in Germany, as if we gave a shit. Fuck off and go heil Hitler you Teutonic fuck.

Respect to the person who did this mod.

Posted at 7:52 pm on Dec 27th, 2008 by misterb

The ONLY thing painting the tip of a toy gun orange does is give the police an excuse after they empty umpteen magazines — pausing to reload, of course — into you if you happen to be holding it anywhere they can see you.

Posted at 8:18 pm on Dec 27th, 2008 by churk

Oh yeah: Awesome mod!

Posted at 8:20 pm on Dec 27th, 2008 by churk

Dear misterb

You sir are today’s winner of the golden asshat award [hands prize to misterb].

The guy you dissed (the German explaining about Germany’s rather sensible gun laws) is the guy who did the mod.

Posted at 4:23 am on Dec 28th, 2008 by Jamma

Thanks jamma for helping :D at least misterb likes the mod :D

Posted at 12:38 am on Dec 29th, 2008 by THeOReos

So, how did you do the mod? Is there any way we can have some instructions? I work on paintball guns, so getting a body is not horribly hard. This would be really interesting if you could mod it to change guns, that way only one Wii remote is sacrificed for the greater good.

Posted at 1:31 pm on Dec 30th, 2008 by veinomenoca

Just click on the green WeeP5 letters on top to go to the instruction. =)
The problem with changing guns is that you have to keep at least the wiimote board with it’s bluetooth, IR-cam and all that kind of stuff so i can’t think about a way of doing this.

Posted at 10:05 am on Jan 3rd, 2009 by THeOReos

Who gives a fuck about the red tip, assholes. The op never said he was going to point it at anyone. Holy fuck. This mod is insane!

Posted at 7:57 pm on Mar 9th, 2009 by Chad