Problems with Hybrid Wiimote in Super Mario Galaxy

[Nayreel17]

Ok, so basically I'm playing Super Mario Galaxy on Dolphin 5.0, and I have a real Wiimote along with a real nunchuck. I also have a bluetooth USB Adapter to connect my wiimote. all worked fine in "real Wiimote" mode, until I realized pointing a the screen using IR is a big part of Super Mario Galaxy. So, for like, the first 10 stars in the game, I kept switching from "real wiimote" to "emulated wiimote" whenever I had to, So I could use my mouse as the pointer. After a while, I realized you could also just use the "Hybrid wiimote" mode, so I tried it. I had the configuration for the mode in "Default", and when I started the game it said communications with the Wiimote were lost. After searching on forums, I learned that you couldn't use the default mode with Hybrid mode. So I did the configuration manually in order to be able to use my Mouse for the pointer and my Wiimote for the rest. It completely worked. but One day, when I launched Super Mario Galaxy and selected my save file as usual to start playing, Mario went to the upper right on his own. I wasn't touching the nunchuck. and No, unplugging and replugging the nunchuck didn't work, and I wasn't touching the nunchuck at all when I launched the game. So I took the batteries out of the controller and put them back in, restarted the game, and it worked. Another day, this happened again, and taking the batteries out didn't work anymore. I restarted the game several time, fiddled with the controller configurations, and it worked after like, 30 minutes of doing that. Here I am today, and it doesn't work AT ALL. I've been fiddling all afternoon, it does not work. keep in mind that when I go to "real Wiimote" mode, it works perfectly fine, so it's not a hardware issue in terms of my Wiimote and its nunchuck. However, I found out later on that this happens when the extension in the configuration is set to "none", and when I set it to "Nunchuck" Mario doesn't go to the upper right on his own anymore, however the nunchuck does not work at all. So I can't move unless I configure my keyboard to do so in the configurations. But I want to use the Nunchuck. and I can't. So either Mario walks on his own but the nunchuck works, either it does not at all but Mario doesn't move (I can make him jump though, since you do that using the A button that is not on the nunchuck but on the Wiimote itself.)

So this is a really strange issue. Especially because I didn't use to have this problem and it randomly popped up. I sincerely hope there is some sort of configuration you can use so that one of the issues stop. Because otherwise I'll be doomed to use the "real Wiimote" mode and have to switch to "Emulated Wiimote" whenever I need the pointer (often).

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help!!!

[JosJuice]

The Hybrid Wii Remote mode tends to have game-breaking problems that nobody knows how to solve. I would really recommend getting a sensor bar if you can, so that you can use the Real Wii Remote mode instead.

[Nayreel17]

(08-13-2017, 02:28 AM)JosJuice Wrote: The Hybrid Wii Remote mode tends to have game-breaking problems that nobody knows how to solve. I would really recommend getting a sensor bar if you can, so that you can use the Real Wii Remote mode instead.

Alright. Thanks for replying. But would you be able to send a link to a cheap sensor bar you would recommend, because I don't know if I should take a wired one and where to plug it and all, or if there are Bluetooth ones I can connect with my Bluetooth key. and also, if you could explain how to use it with Dolphin, if you need to change some settings and stuff.

Thank you

[JosJuice]

(08-13-2017, 02:34 AM)Nayreel17 Wrote: But would you be able to send a link to a cheap sensor bar you would recommend, because I don't know if I should take a wired one and where to plug it and all, or if there are Bluetooth ones I can connect with my Bluetooth key. and also, if you could explain how to use it with Dolphin, if you need to change some settings and stuff.

Sensor bars don't actually contain any sensors and don't communicate with the device that's running the game; all they consist of are a few IR LEDs that need to be turned on while you're playing. (The Wii Remote looks for the IR LEDs in order to know where the screen is.) So if you have a USB sensor bar, you just have to plug it into something that's turned on (it doesn't have to be the PC that's you're using), and if you have a wireless sensor bar, you just have to put in batteries and turn it on.

Basically any sensor bar that you can find will work fine for your purposes, except official Nintendo ones (they use a special cable that only fits in Wiis and Wii Us) and the Mayflash DolphinBar (it's not a bad product, but you should only buy it if you want to connect your Wii Remote through the DolphinBar's built-in Bluetooth adapter rather than using your existing Bluetooth adapter). (Note that the Mayflash DolphinBar is the only sensor bar that does anything that's related to Bluetooth – it's very different from a normal sensor bar.)

[Nayreel17]

(08-13-2017, 02:50 AM)JosJuice Wrote: Sensor bars don't actually contain any sensors and don't communicate with the device that's running the game; all they consist of are a few IR LEDs that need to be turned on while you're playing. (The Wii Remote looks for the IR LEDs in order to know where the screen is.) So if you have a USB sensor bar, you just have to plug it into something that's turned on (it doesn't have to be the PC that's you're using), and if you have a wireless sensor bar, you just have to put in batteries and turn it on.

Basically any sensor bar that you can find will work fine for your purposes, except official Nintendo ones (they use a special cable that only fits in Wiis and Wii Us) and the Mayflash DolphinBar (it's not a bad product, but you should only buy it if you want to connect your Wii Remote through the DolphinBar's built-in Bluetooth adapter rather than using your existing Bluetooth adapter). (Note that the Mayflash DolphinBar is the only sensor bar that does anything that's related to Bluetooth – it's very different from a normal sensor bar.)

Ok, Thank you, I'm still answering because I just restarted Super Mario Galaxy for the bazillionth time and randomly, it WORKED! Mario doesn't move on his own anymore! I DID NOT close the emulation yet because I know as soon as I relaunch the game another time the bug will re appear. At this point I consider myself REALLY lucky. So just saying, as advice to anyone that has this problem, the only real way to fix it is restarting the game again and again (with the "extensions" part of the configuration set to "none" of course) until Mario doesn't move on his own.

EDIT: Crap, the game froze when I was in the middle of playing, so I had to re-launch the game, and of course, the bug re-occured.