Help my brother set up old video games on computer.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Ok a bit of background.

My elderbrother has a huge LCD TV on his wall that is linked up to a spare computer and an AppleTV. All of his movies, music, aduiobooks, etc, he streams through the computers. He even weired up a special remote that is able to work on both the TV, the Appletv and the computer.

Well, recently he got ahold of an old school NES and SNES emulator along with about 1000 old school ROM files. He has been loading them up into his entertainment computer, but there is a hitch.

The computer is tucked out of the way, so you don't see it. In order to 'do' anything on it, he still has to plug in a mouse and keybored. As you can guess, this isn't good when wanting to play video games on it.

A USB game controller would nee almost 10ft of cord to reach the computer. And with two kids and a dog, that is NOT A solution.
So what do some of the nerds out there think? Could you do a wireless controller for a computer?

[DaveJB]

Microsoft do a Windows-compatible version of the Xbox 360 wireless controller. There are also some wireless keyboards you can get which have an integrated trackpad, if you want to go totally wire-free.

[Stark]

Its the same controller, you just need the USB dongle with magic 'make it work' Microsoft technology. If he's got a 360 the dongle itself is like $20, and if he has a PS3 any random bluetooth dongle should work. There are crappier third-party ones too - wireless control pads are pretty common stuff; the 360 is just the best one.

PS 'getting ahold of' 1000 ROMs sounds pretty illegal to me, champ. Every time I play Buck Rogers I look at my original cart and think - 'fuck, I am old'.