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It's because of the OS itself, actually. Google introduced a new Bluetooth stack in Jellybean which broke compatibility with Wii controllers. I think there was a commit made a while back that fixed it in some newer Lollipop/Marshmallow versions though.
Well, yeah, that's the reason I have a rooted device, with 4.4.4 and 4.1.2, since 4.2 broke it. My Wii remote works with all other emulators, all are up to date and support it on legacy OSes, so there's no reason why they shouldn't take the time to support it on older OSes for RetroArch either, because now I have to get a new controller if I'm to play RA on 4.1.2, it's bullshit in my opinion, pardon my French. It's that very reason I refuse to use RA on anything but my Wii. I asked the devs about it, they treated me like garbage and called me out on it.
Yup, it's never worked on 2.3 or below for me. Anything 3.0 or up always worked fine.
4.2 and above break all Wii remote support, this is a known fact, the Wii remote app will not work on anything above 4.1. Why Google was stupid enough to break it and not fix it, I don't know.
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