Communication with the "Wii remote" being disconnected (ps3 controller)

solarnoise · (This post was last modified: 03-20-2013, 03:41 PM by solarnoise.)

Hi guys, was wondering if this is a known issue and if anyone knows how to address it.

I am playing Xenoblade on 3.5 x64

If I am "afk" for about 10 minutes, the game throws up this screen that I've attached. The problem is that even if I press buttons on my ps3 controller at that point, it doesn't close the screen. The game stays in this limbo state and I have to stop and re-play the game, loading from my last save. This is frightening to me since what if I'm going through a major point in the game and my save is a little old, and then this screen pops up and I can't close it?

If there's any way to re-awaken the "wii remote" to address this screen, please let me know!

I've tried closing and re-opening MotionJoy, as well as pausing and playing the emulation. I can open the WiiMote settings and see the buttons registering from my controller, so Dolphin still "sees" it but the game doesn't update to reflect this.

EDIT: please move this to the "Controllers" section, sorry.

EDIT: SOLVE. I went to the Tools menu in Dolphin and unchecked "Connect Wiimote 1" and then checked it again. The game sees the controller again and resumed. Hopefully this helps someone else.

**pauldacheez** · 03-20-2013, 10:07 PM #2

For future reference, all you have to do is click Tools > Connect Wiimote 1 twice, or press Alt-F5 twice.

03-13-2015, 02:42 PM #3

Thank you OP for posting the solution you found. I encountered this problem just now and am glad I don't have to reload a save from 2 hours ago.