Wiimotes not seeing sensor bar - extensive testing done

[henrydavis]

I've been playing with Dolphin for a long time now (I can't thank you Devs enough!) and recently I'm not able to use the sensor bar. I've been playing SMG1 and SMG2 mainly and have tried a few other games. I've tried my other two Wiimotes with no luck. I took my wireless sensor bar into a dark room and fired up my camcorder and sure enough all six of the LED's are working just fine.

I went through every setting I can find multiple times and can't seem to find one that would turn the sensor bar off. Maybe I'm just missing something.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[AnyOldName3]

I'd try the Wii System Menu too. You should be able to extract it from SMG by right clicking, choosing properties, going to the filesystem tab and looking in partition 0/sys/ for something called systemmenu 266 or similar. Then, simply put this in the folder you load .iso images from, and start it up. If the wiimote works, but the cursor doesn't, then you know it's something wrong with the wiimote or dolphin, not the game.

If it doesn't work in the system menu, try it on an actual wii. It's possible the wiimote is dead.

[henrydavis]

The Wiimotes all work just fine, it's just I can't use the cursor function in SMG because none of the Wiimotes "see" the sensor bar.

[pauldacheez]

If you've scrubbed and trimmed your games, you won't have that method of getting the System Menu out of them. You can get yourself a System Menu through NUSDownloader, though - just get it to build the SysMenu .wads (and any others that look important), then install them in Dolphin via Tools > Install WAD.

More on-topic, are the remotes first-party Nintendo remotes? Third-party ones can have issues ranging from randomly disconnecting to certain functions not working. And are you sure the remotes can see the bar perfectly fine? You might just be too close to the thing or you're holding the remotes in a spot where something's blocking the sensor bar from view.

[henrydavis]

(05-12-2013, 04:37 AM)pauldacheez Wrote: If you've scrubbed and trimmed your games, you won't have that method of getting the System Menu out of them. You can get yourself a System Menu through NUSDownloader, though - just get it to build the SysMenu .wads (and any others that look important), then install them in Dolphin via Tools > Install WAD.

More on-topic, are the remotes first-party Nintendo remotes? Third-party ones can have issues ranging from randomly disconnecting to certain functions not working. And are you sure the remotes can see the bar perfectly fine? You might just be too close to the thing or you're holding the remotes in a spot where something's blocking the sensor bar from view.

All three Wiimotes are Nintendo branded. I've been playing Dolphin for about 6 months, probably 3-4x a week, without ever an issue. I was playing SMG1 and during the Beach Bowl Galaxy my game would crash with a graphics error. One of the recommended fixes was trying the JitIL which didn't do anything so I put it back. This is a well-documented error:

http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-wii-super-mario-galaxy--25930?pid=253723#pid253723

That's the only setting I remember messing with in the last month.

I took out my dusty Wii and tested the Wiimotes and sensor bar and they are working just fine. I even used my Wii's sensor bar, with the Wii running, while running Dolphin and it is still not working. There has got to be a check box I clicked on accident that is totally jacking my Wiimotes from seeing the sensor bar.

[ExtremeDude2]

Did you try the latest?

[henrydavis]

Ok, it's working now, and I have no idea why. I restarted my computer and AMD said there was a new Catalyst for my 6850 so I downloaded it. I restarted and I had no video drivers; lovely. Also, it said there was a USB device plugged in that it didn't recognize (my BT dongle). So, I download the drivers again, tell AMD to uninstall all drivers, then I reinstall the video drivers. Restart and bam, video drivers working...but no Bluetooth dongle detected. I unplugged the Bluetooth dongle, plugged it back in and it was detected. I launch Dolphin and what do you know...the cursor is working. I've spent hours trying to get it to work and for whatever reason now it's deciding to play nice. Nothing I did should have fixed it.

Oh well, thanks again for all the input. I really appreciate it.