Wii U GamePad Hacked to Stream PC Games

Software still in its alpha stage.

At the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, an annual conference for hackers, a team showed off a modified Wii U GamePad that was capable of streaming games directly from a PC. As reported by Engadget, the group reverse engineered the Wii U peripheral using a lengthy series of complicated techniques to achieve their goal, and while the results are still quite buggy, the team was able to successfully demo a session of a GameCube ROM of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker by way of the Dolphin Emulator.
Don't expect to do the same at home any time soon, though, as the team stresses that the modifications are still in the alpha stage. They do, however, hope to eventually develop software for use with Windows and OS X, as well as create a method for using an Android tablet for playing games from the Wii U.
If you'd like to do something similar today, you can pick up Nvidia's Shield. But if you're the type who likes to tinker with their electronics, the lecture slides can be found online and the code for the modifications is available for use—at your own risk, of course.