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Wiimote troubleshooting 101: spank it |
Listed in: Wii Tags: motion-sensing, SIXAXIS, Wiimote
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No joke, so behave. Were your Wiimote's motion-sensing to suddenly stop functioning, one suggestion from Nintendo tech support is to spank the misbehaving miscreant until it works again. Or, in the specific words of aeolist who brought this up in NeoGAF, "they told us to hold the remote face down in one hand and spank it sharply with the other... by God it worked. Thing is just as precise as it was before."Jokes aside, the shock of such spanking suffered by the Wiimote must reset the motion-sensing chips or something. Heck, all we know is that spanking the Wiimote has to do something to it. Hmm... the PS3's SIXAXIS suffers from quite a similar malady ("directional lock" or "SIXAXIS epilepsy", depending on who you ask) - will similar good-ol' fashioned discipline down south correct its crooked ways?
Again, no joke. It might really work. Ninty tech support says they tried it once, and it worked, says aeolist, and someone else in the board tried it and it also worked. Perhaps this should be added to the Wii manual: If Wiimote does not sense motion, then spank it. Or more specifically, hold the Wiimote face down and then spank it. If the Wiimote cries, then... well, spare the rod and spoil the controller, we always say.
Just be glad that the Wiimote can take so much abuse (just as much as it can dish out abuse, too). Now c'mon, you misbehaving motion-sensing device, you've been a very bad Wiimote lately...
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My bride has often chastised me for beating up our electronics.. But this time I had her read your advice right off the screen. She spanked it and voila! It worked!
Thanks for the tip
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