3RD Party Wii Controllers or Wiimote

[darkdre]

I am creating this trend as it took hours for me to get remotes to work, and hope this will save someone time.

(I bought 2 Nyko Pro Mini Plus controllers from amazon for about $7.85 each, one new and the other like new condition.
A USB power Nextronics Sensor Bar it was $25. I thought this would be better than buying batteries for the wireless and the reviews were great!)

The wiimotes were able to pair with Window 7 32bit OS, after doing many bluebooth sync or searches.

However pairing would not say on long enough, causing problems when detecting in Dolphin. and even if it worked in a game it was only for a very short period of time. (alt f5 did not help at all)

I then concluded it was not a fault off dolphin but the blutooth device or the drivers.

I had two of different brands bluetooth of dongles, they both had the same problem and only one thing in common, windows BT drivers.

Therefore I tried using toshiba bluetooth stack (TBS) which work like a charm. It replaces the windows bluetooth drivers with better ones.

Once your device is detected using the TBS it [color=#FF0000]remains connected[/color] and once you start Dolphin and you select real wiimote its automatically detected. no syncing needed

I play Kirby for a while and i workered very while. just like on my wii console. ONLY PRETTER.

MY SETUP (a bit dated but works fine for all PC games and most Wii games)
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 overclocked to 3600 ghz
RAM: 4 GIGS Kingston hyper x
Hard-drive: 2 Tera
Connecttion devices: nexxt Bluetooth dongle, Microsoft wireless connector.
Controllers: 2 * Pro Mini PlusController Wii, 2 * xbox 360 wireless gamepads

[GITech]

Hi I just purchased one of these controllers today, well it's called the "Pro Pack Mini Plus" made by PowerA. I don't think Nyko makes them.

I had the same experience as you before and after update with http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/15160/

The 'mote will install drivers and show up in "Devices and Printers" and stays connected.

But when I go to Dolphin Wiimote settigns it will not "Pair Up" (or refresh) and somtimes it even causes the settings window to become unresponsive for a period of time.. and even crash sometimes. Though it may be crashing because I clicked pair up and/or refresh too many times ..sometimes.

Can you give the link to the toshiba bluetooth stack you used?

Oh, and what OS are you running?

Thanks,
Jay

[GITech]

Ok, I returned my Pro Pack Mini Plus.

I saw the store (target) I went too had the old "motion compatible" version, but I decided not to purchase anything else until I get more info.

I spent till 5am trying everthing, I ended my efforts after I tried this: http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread.php?tid=19948&page=47 and/with this: http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread.php?mode=threaded&tid=19948&pid=189694#pid189694

I got the 'mote to connect in toshiba and vibrate in several versions of dolphin but when a rom is started I just get "connection with wiimote interrupted".

What dongle did you use? Does it have to be "class 1" for this "plus" 'mote from PowerA? Are you sure yours is a "plus"? What else is missing?

It's driving me crazy!

I see a ton of threads here about this and have read ~50+ pages of posts...

This controller pack really seems to be getting more peoples attention cause it's a better size and PRICE (and multicolor LED's ), and seems to work good for those who can get it to work...I wonder what is really going on here. It must be that only certain "combos" of hardware/software work?

Thanks,
Jay