Fuck this Wii Sensor Bar! Help plz, d00d.

[Azazel]

When I first got my Wii, and hooked it up to my 58cm CRT TV (23"), all was good. The cursor wasn't exactly perfect, but it was pretty good.

Since we got our 46" WS HDTV, the Wiimote cursor has been just sooooo fucking far off, that it's not even a joke anymore.
I've tried the sensor bar on top and below, on the bezel base. and below seems marginally better, which is severely fucked up instead of totally fucked up.

I picked up a light gun game for it tonight - Ghost Hunter (it was cheap, and came with a Zapper-type thing for free). I can't even fucking calibrate it.
When it asks me to "shoot here" and I do, it tells me I'm too far outof whack. This is with me sitting about 5 feet from the tv, directly in front of the
sensor bar.

Aside from "bin the Wii", etc. Any ideas?

[Jeff Kelly]

The system menu of the Wii offers a way to calibrate the sensor bar.

Basically the sensor bar is nothing more than a few infrared leds a few centimetres apart. So it might just be that your WiiMote can't just see all of these diodes at once any longer because of the larger TV (and different gaming distance). This would be necessary however to estimate the position on screen.

How this is done is mentioned in the manual.

[cmlancas]

When I first got my Wii, and hooked it up to my 58cm CRT TV (23"), all was good. The cursor wasn't exactly perfect, but it was pretty good.

Since we got our 46" WS HDTV, the Wiimote cursor has been just sooooo fucking far off, that it's not even a joke anymore.
I've tried the sensor bar on top and below, on the bezel base. and below seems marginally better, which is severely fucked up instead of totally fucked up.

I picked up a light gun game for it tonight - Ghost Hunter (it was cheap, and came with a Zapper-type thing for free). I can't even fucking calibrate it.
When it asks me to "shoot here" and I do, it tells me I'm too far outof whack. This is with me sitting about 5 feet from the tv, directly in front of the
sensor bar.

Aside from "bin the Wii", etc. Any ideas?

Have you tried sitting farther back than 5ft? Possibly 10ft? I know that the closer I got while playing Wii Sports on the old shittyshitshit TV I had, the more likely my cursor would go wonky.

[Azazel]

Yeah. The calibration menu is "above" and "below".

Mind you I'm pretty much at the same gaming distance as before, maybe a fraction further away, but within a foot, and even pointing the wiimote AT the sensor bar doesn't get a great deal of love.

I think it's just a shitty product, actually.


That goes doubly so for Ghost Hunt. I can't believe that Sega/AM2 used to be a 1st-tier publisher/developer. Or how far they've fallen.

Have you tried sitting farther back than 5ft? Possibly 10ft? I know that the closer I got while playing Wii Sports on the old shittyshitshit TV I had, the more likely my cursor would go wonky.

In my smallish house that would have me mounted inside a bookshelf, unfortunately. Actually, it would have me bisected by a pillar.

[Jeff Kelly]

Yeah. The calibration menu is "above" and "below".

No it's not. Unfortunately you will have to wait until this evening (8 CET) before I get home and can post instructions.

[Azazel]

That's ok. 10 to midnight here and time for sleep, followed by work, followed by teh weekendz! GMT+10 here. + an hour DST.

But thanks, will read from work.

[HaemishM]

There is a 3rd party wireless sensor bar, made by Nyko, that is supposedly a lot better than the default bar.

Amazon.com

[Margalis]

It could be something about the TV itself. I've heard that with some TVs the Wiimote doesn't behave properly unless you do some tweaks. (Not sure of the details)

5 feet away from a 46 inch screen? Yikes.

The calibration menu Jeff is speaking of is (I think) the one where you get the two dots on screen and can adjust the sensitivity up or down to get them to line up.

[Tale]

Replace the batteries in your Wiimote with new ones.

Seriously, from personal experience I am pretty sure that's the main problem here. There can be a significant period of poor performance before the Wii says anything about your batteries dying.

[Yegolev]

I'm in the your-TV-is-outputting-IR camp.  That's a crazy idea, I know, but maybe you can test it by hanging a blanket in front of your TV but behind the IR bar and seeing if the wiimote goes back to normal.

[Azazel]

There's no option to calibrate the Wiimotes. There's "sensitivity" and there's "above and below". Neither lets you calibrate the remote.

I'm 6' away most of the time, it turns out. What's the point in getting a large screen if you just sit so far away that it looks like a 23" again? Well, that's in the lounge. I'm about 15' away now when looking over my shoulder to see while typing on my computer.

I've read stuff about the Nyko bar. it's main point is being wireless/battery powered.

[Margalis]

Adjusting sensitivity didn't help?

Are you sure nothing is in the way of the sensor bar? You might try googling with your tv model.

[Jeff Kelly]

Adjusting sensitivity, that's what I meant, sorry for the delay

[naum]

There is a 3rd party wireless sensor bar, made by Nyko, that is supposedly a lot better than the default bar.

Amazon.com

If you get that one, don't forget to power off after you're done playing… …battery life isn't long if it's on continuously…

Have not heard of any sensor bar problems with the standard packaged sensor bar… …I'd try hooking it up to a different TV or using friend's controllers to try to isolate problem…