Wiimote and Wii USB Sensor Bar [Solved]

[Alkadian]

Hi guys,

I haven't played duck hunt for a while. Today I have decided to give it a go again. However, not sure what happened, but the USB sensor bar doesn't seem to be working anymore as the red crosshairs doesn't move at all. I have tried with another usb sensor bar but to no avail, still it doesn't work.

My (unchanged) settings are:

Swap Joystick : No
Peripheral: Zapper (Joy 1)
Zapper Trigger: Joystick
Crosshairs: On

Any ideas at all please?

[skooter]

I have the same issue. It seems Wii Mote support is broken in the current MiSTer Main version.

Check this bug report and sorgelig response:
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/issues/267

[Alkadian]

Hi,
Thanks for sharing your experience and the link to the bug report.

For a moment I thought I have burnt the infrared LED’s within both the USB sensor bars.

I am glad to hear that sorgelig is already working on a fix! That’s awesome!

[Alkadian]

@sorgelig,
Many thanks for fixing this. It's now working like a charm!
What a happy boy now

EDIT: I think I have spoken too early. After rebooting it doesn't work anymore!

[Alkadian]

Excellent news!!

I have just re-installed everything starting from a fresh install of MiSTer and that did the trick!

Everything is working perfectly fine!

[barfood]

I can't get the crosshair to move with MiSTer v210711, I am using a wii sensor bar powered by my Wii U. Is the bug back?

[Alkadian]

I haven't used the Wiimote for a while. Let me check it again and I will come back to you.

[Alkadian]

I have just checked it and it's working fine on my side. However, I have had to change only this setting: Peripheral: Zapper (Joy 2). I have replicated this behaviour after every reboot and it has worked every time. Try that.

[Sigismond0]

Just throwing in my experience here--joycon remote worked fine with Duck Hunt a couple of days ago as long as I set Zapper to Joy1 or Joy2. Using a battery powered sensor bar.

Also, side note, but the Precision FX pistol grip for the Wii Remote is great. Puts a joystick under your thumb and extra buttons on the bottom/sides, so you can map it out to easily navigate menus right from the gun.

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[commander]

any info where to buy this Precision FX ?

[Sigismond0]

Best bet is probably eBay or Google shopping to scrape the web. I'm sure it's been out of production for close to a decade. I snagged the last one on Datel's eBay front a year or so ago.

[barfood]

Thanks for coming back to me! I'll try out some more.

[Sigismond0]

Tangential to this, is anyone else not seeing any change in behavior when re-calibrating the screen edges in the F10 menu? It feels like no matter where I point during that process, the tracking of the crosshairs never changes--I always have to point at the far left/right of my 16:9 display to get the crosshair to the edge of the 4:3 letterbox. And verticalally it doesn't register numbers higher than 760 for the bottom edge of the screen if I have the bar above the screen (or numbers below 000 if the bar is below the screen), so vertical pointing just can't calibrate to the actual height of the screen.

Not sure if it's just a hardware limitation of the Wii remote, or a software issue of the calibration screen not having a full range and/or not storing the values I set.

[siskavard]

I have the issue where I have to tilt the wiimotes up slighty - I can't point them straight at my display else the crosshair will be much lower than where I'm pointing.

[chocomochino]

has someone sorted out this calibration thing? it just keeps worse;
So the sensor bar has to be on the bottom right? is there any way to reset it to default?