Wii remotes wont work

Ok, I have not touched this wii in months. I have home brew on it and preloader v0.25. When i power up the wii it goes to this preloader screen and i cant get a remote to work. Any ideas would be great i dont need to save anything.

I think you might have a broken Bluetooth module. You're either going to have to manually install one, or send it in to Nintendo.

That makes not alot of sense as this wii is only 6 months old and has been used maybe 10 hours. Im thinking you cant sync remotes while in this preloader screen but i have no idea.

I'm pretty sure you cant sync remotes in preloader. Do you have a GC controller? I think they may be usable to navigate preloader.

No, I think you're thinking of Bootmii. I have preloader 0.29 and Wii Remotes sync fine. Let me take a look at the Changelog.

EDIT:No, I can't see anything. the only thing I can see relating to Wii Remotes is

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Preloader 0.26 Changelog
-fixed a bug where only the first Wiimote was powered down when the Wii got turned off

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/21/2009 11:16AM by metroid_maniac.

I think he's talking about syncing with the red/orange button

I had this problem a few days ago when I brought my wii to a friend's place... since the wiimotes weren't synced, they wouldn't sync in preloader... I had to go get a gamecube controller to get past preloader, then they synced fine and stayed that way after that.

hmm... getting a GC controller to load the Menu and syncing it normally should do the trick.

ya thats what im thinking too. I think i found a buddy that has a controller. Thanks for all your input on this guys, I'll let you know what happens.

Lets say that using a gamecube controller does not work and that the wii is actually frozen on this preloader screen what be my options?

If you dont have bootmii, then your options would probably be get a infectus/other NAND programmer and use it to install bootmii, then use betwiin to make a NAND dump from someone else's wii work on yours and then install it with bootmii. But if you dont have a vulnerable boot1, that would brick you.

See below post.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/22/2009 09:18PM by SifJar.

ignore my last post - I have a better idea. What system menu does your wii have? If its <3.4, you could get yourself a GC controller, do the SaveMiiFrii trick and stick in a game with the 3.4 update (I know Wii Sports Resort has it, and loads others. Most recent games). It'll update, getting rid of preloader. Of course, that wont work if you already have 3.4 or above. But anyway, you should be able to get past the preloader screen with the GC controller, sync your remotes, then you'll be fine.

Anyone know why I can't get 2nd remote to work in Resort? It says go to home menu and then settings and set up remote but I don't see anything for wii remotes. I see 3 pages I can view, as in lang , sensor bar ect. I have Homebrew and preloader installed and the 2nd wiimote works in older games when I choose 2 player as in wii sports ect but new games, I can't get the 2nd wiimote to sync. Any ideas will be very useful. Thanks

Dont troll other peoples threads. Especially if your problem is unrelated to theirs.

I cant recall if it was 3.2U or 3.4U been a long time since i did this and i didnt pay alot of attention..my bad on that!

did you get it fixed using a GC controller to go past the preloader screen?

i have not gotten my hands on a GC controller yet im hoping for that tomorrow or tonight.

i have 2 wii game counsels so i just kinda lost interest in the hobby but now want to get it back working.

ok the GC controller worked now i just want to get rid of preloader and make this thing work right!

Well that's easy, just update the System Menu. But why do you want rid of preloader, may I ask?