Unless some company decides to make a USB adapter for it, there's no way to connect the original sensor bar without mangling the cable. Though, if you do mangle the cable and turn it into a USB sensor bar, you can still use it with the Wii, I think.
Turning on the Wii without hooking it up to a TV works just fine too. The sensor bar is an extremely simple piece of hardware, it's just two clusters of infrared lights. As long as the bar's receiving power (which it always is when connected to a Wii and the Wii's on), it's lit up. There's no actual communication between it and the Wii Remote, either – the remote determines where it's pointing and how far away it is from the screen by tracking the positions of the lights with its little infrared camera.
Turning on the Wii without hooking it up to a TV works just fine too. The sensor bar is an extremely simple piece of hardware, it's just two clusters of infrared lights. As long as the bar's receiving power (which it always is when connected to a Wii and the Wii's on), it's lit up. There's no actual communication between it and the Wii Remote, either – the remote determines where it's pointing and how far away it is from the screen by tracking the positions of the lights with its little infrared camera.
<@skid_au> fishing resort is still broken: http://i.imgur.com/dvPiQKg.png
<@neobrain> dafuq
<+JMC47> no dude, you're just holding the postcard upside down
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<@Lioncash> pauldachz in charge of shitposting :^)
<@neobrain> dafuq
<+JMC47> no dude, you're just holding the postcard upside down
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<@Lioncash> pauldachz in charge of shitposting :^)