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So, tealight candles actually do work as a replacement for the Wii sensor bar…
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So, tealight candles actually do work as a replacement for the Wii sensor bar…
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Ignore the cords…. Very temporary set-up lol.
Its cause sensor bar is just few IR leds and wiimote has IR sensor that tracks them and candles emit a bit of IR light which wiimote then can detect
WHAT. This really drives home the fact that I truly do not know how anything works.
“sensor bar” gives the impression the bar is doing the sensing, actually the wiimote has a simple IR detector in the front. If you go into the settings, there’s an option where you can see what the wiimote can “see”, white dots indicate a source of IR.
So weird to see people discover this in 2023.
EDIT: Wow, you people are amazing. No wait, the opposite of that. I am saying it’s almost a 20 year old console and people are **still** discovering secrets and tricks for it. Holy crap…
All light sources for the most part emit infrared wavelength
Like others have said, the sensor bar is just IR lights and the actual sensor is in the Wiimote
It’s a shame that Nintendo didn’t do more with the tech because the Youtuber [Johnny Lee made an awesome head tracking VR demo with the Wii hardware](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw)
We used to set up Brawl tournaments and we’d just skip bringing the sensor bars, we’d all have lighters in our pockets and would just point the wiimote at the lighter flame to start up the game.
Technically everything that emits infrared and looks like a dot can work (more or less)
I can’t be the only one that through the right tea light had burned the tv screen.
What year is it
Melee players been knowing lmao
How I beat Skyward Sword.
You just need literally anything that gives off a source of infrared light. We discovered this at a friend’s house way back in 2006 when it kept working with the Christmas Tree
I accidentally left a candle about that close to my pc monitor once and fell asleep and woke up an hour or two later and the whole screen was a different color where the candle was burning underneath, weirdly went away after a few minutes of removing the candles, I guess the pixels were just overheated but not damaged.
Our buddy’s cat chewed through the sensor bar cable.
So, it became almost ceremonial when two of us would each kneel with a lighter on opposite ends of the wii to get a game of smash/dokapon going
In desperate times I’ve used 2 lighters just to get past the menu screen. Can confirm it works!
This method has been on YouTube for ages.
Well duh. Have you seen the videos?
“also breaking news, we just invaded Iraq”
Like, why is this trending?
You guys didnt know that?
Welcome to 2006
I definitely used pink peeps before too. Totally works
We going to Mario Party like it’s 1899!
Of course they do. Flames release the full spectrum of visible light but before they get hot enough to glow red they glow infrared first.
I got my Wii on release, camped outside of Walmart for it; got Twilight Princess as well. I was so excited to play it after work that I set it up beforehand so It would be ready as soon as I walked in the door. My cat had other plans, he chewed through the sensor bar cable and at that time there was no real way to get a replacement so for the next week I was just staring at my $250 brick. Fast forward a week or so and I turned it on after trying to splice the cable back together, it didn’t work but what I did notice is that the Wiimote would react to our Christmas tree and the lights that were on it. I got the idea to make a box where I would punch through a line of Christmas lights and I was astonished that it actually worked.
It was a Christmas Miracle.
This has been known for **YEARS**
Works just fine yeah. You can buy USB powered ones online for $10 now though.
This is some mechanicus shit
But how do you connect the tea lights to the wii? Every time I try, the plastic on the console starts to melt
Yes this was mundane news in 2007
Who hates themselves enough to play Mario Party 9 or 10?
lol this has been known and confirmed for, like, years my man. Where have you been
Well hot damn
This is how I beat re4
What The
Just don’t leave the window open
I’ve only been using candles for years now. My sensor bar broke a long time ago, but oddly enough the candles have never failed me. They even work with my emulator!
The sensor bar is for rhe wii motes it’s not for the console. It’s just gest power from the console. All it does it send UV light to the wii mote to know where the TV is. So of course it be replace with other from of light that give off UV
Is this post from 2008?
They may melt your TV if you put too close, but anything that emits IR will do
Oh look it’s news from the day after the Wii came out. Did you know the Xbox 360 can play Xbox games?
Yeah. We’ve known this since the OG Wii days.
This was never in question.
what year is this?!
Been using small candles for mannnny years.
While we’re sharing little-known game facts, did you know that Super Mario Bros 2 is actually called Doki Doki Panic in Japan?
Is this the version of mario party where you jerk off and you see whose jizz shoots up the highest?
Why do I just imagine someone desperately trying to get the sensor to work and find this hack/ or a more ridiculous one and are just so desperate they try it and are baffled when it works 😭
Ya I remember finding this out when i was a kid lol. It was cool but (probably obvious) not a great replacement. It was fun playing any game where you have to aim with a cursor that flickered as much as the flame.