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I haven't had a chance to play for the past 3 months, and suddenly my Wii Remote isn't being recognized when I start a game via USB Loader GX. The Wii Remote has always disconnected briefly - you'd just press A or B for a moment and it would reconnect - but now the LEDs for Players 1-3 on the Wii Remote flash for a few seconds, and then nothing happens.

I haven’t made any changes to the Wii in the meantime, and I’ve already tried re-pairing the Wiimote in the Wii menu. When I launch the game from a disc via USB Loader GX, it works, but when I launch the backup via USB, it doesn’t work.



Does anyone know what else I can do to get it working again?



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I just tried another Wii Remote, and it doesn't work either. But with this one, only the LED for Player 1 is flashing.
With some games, even the safety screen isn't showing - just a black screen.
I guess I'll have to try a different USB drive, but not today...



ETA2
Im still running USB Loader GX v3.0 r1272.
And I also tried wiping all synced Wiimotes by holding the red sync button on the Wii for 15-20 seconds and then resyncing the Wiimotes again.
 
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jeannotte said:
Hello,

Have you put new batteries in the Wiimotes?

Are they official Nintendo Wiimotes?
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Yes, I had specifically put in fresh new batteries. And as far as I know, both Wiimotes are third-party rather than official, but in the last six years that I’ve been using them with this Wii, I haven’t had any problems with them (except maybe that, unfortunately, they aren’t recognized by Nintendont).


But in the meantime, I figured out what the problem was. There have been several power outages in this area over the past two months, and I thought maybe the SD card or USB drive that was plugged into the Wii - which was on standby during that time - might have become compromised. So I compared the contents of both with backups on my PC. In doing so, I must have accidentally grabbed a different adapter for the microSD card than the one I usually use with the Wii, and since then, everything has been working just like before.
So I think the adapter I’ve always used in the Wii is slowly giving out, and that’s what caused the error. I’ll probably have to get a standard SD card specifically for the Wii, because using a microSD card with an adapter is just asking for trouble.
 
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Northrup said:
So I think the adapter I’ve always used in the Wii is slowly giving out, and that’s what caused the error. I’ll probably have to get a standard SD card specifically for the Wii, because using a microSD card with an adapter is just asking for trouble.
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Use a recognized brand SD card.
 
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jeannotte said:
Use a recognized brand SD card.
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It is/was a SanDisk SD card and adapter, so it should be more than enough. But even the best tech breaks down eventually.


XFlak said:
Use the latest version of gx, which has the ability to sync wiimotes built right into it
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I've actually been wanting to upgrade for a while now, but then I'd also have to install the new cIOS and uninstall all my WiiGSC forwarder channels, recreate them with the new WiiGSC mod, and reinstall them - and so far, I haven't had the time nor the motivation to do all that.
 
Upgrade to some real Wiimotes. Or even better, some Wii Motion Plus controllers. They work 100% of the time. I say this as someone who used to help people out in this forum and over on the Reddit one all the time with Wii issues. Those fake Wiimotes are a support nightmare and are not worth it.
 

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