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Nintendo Wii Rock Band Drums

Nintendo Wii
Controller
  • Rock Band 1 Drums can be connected via USB. Rock Band 1 drums are white with grey pads and lack the connectors for cymbals.
  • Rock Band 2 (and later) Drums require their respective drum dongles to connect to your computer.
    Rock Band 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band drum dongles are compatible with either revisions.
    Nintendo Wii Rock Band Drums Dongle Nintendo Wii The Beatles: Rock Band Drums Dongle
  • Rock Band MIDI PRO Adapters for Wii can be connected via USB.
  • Works with or without the Pro Cymbal expansions.
    • Make sure to configure which cymbals are connected within Rock Band 3.
      • Menu > Options > Drum Options
  • Velocity sensitivity doesn’t seem to work.

How do I map my drums? Click on the Pads icon at the top of RPCS3.

The Pads menu in RPCS3.

It’s suggested to create a new configuration by clicking Add Configuration at the top right of the Pads window.
This is so you can change configuration profiles in case you want to play other games.

The top right of RPCS3's Pads window. 'Add Configuration' is being clicked on by the mouse cursor

Follow the instructions and/or match the assignments below.

The instrument page being used as a as a mapping reference for RPCS3.

Pad Informations

Section titled “Pad Informations”
HandlersDevices
MMJoystickJoystick
Device ClassDevice Subtype
DrumsRock Band Pro

Mapping

Section titled “Mapping”
  • Rock Band Drums send multiple button presses out at once. Keep in mind these are needed to the emulator to tell your cymbals apart.
  • To bind multiple buttons to one RPCS3 button, hold Shift then click on the RPCS3 button you want to assign multiple buttons to.
RPCS3Rock Band Drums
CrossGreen Pad
CircleRed Pad
SquareBlue Pad
TriangleYellow Pad
R3Cymbal Modifier
L3Pad Modifier
L1Foot Pedal
R1Second Foot Pedal
CrossA Button
CircleB Button
Square1 Button
Triangle2 Button
D-PadD-Pad
PS ButtonHome
StartPlus Button
SelectMinus Button
Mapping

Profile

Section titled “Profile”

[Download Profile]

How do I use profiles?

After downloading the profile,

  1. Extract the .7z file.
  2. Drag the input_configs folder into the configs folder where you have RPCS3 in.
Installing a configuration profile from the Instrument Repo
  1. After that, you can select the profile in the Pads menu.
RPCS3's Gamepad Settings, showing the cursor over a profile.

Most of the time, these controller profiles should work out of the box. If they don’t, try changing the controller listed in Devices, next to the Refresh button until it receives an input. You can edit this while the game is running.

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Mapped by [scott0852]