Wiimote pairing but no motion

anotherbob

I followed the docs (method 1) to set up the wiimote and got the remote pairing and responding to buttons. I have not gotten any motion. I’ve tried setting up on NES and MAME but never get a cursor or motion but the buttons work. Guessing it’s IR hardware, environment or rom set up that’s the issue.

I’m hoping someone can point me to docs for setting up NES and MAME for light gun support. YouTube tutorials seem to contain a lot of voodoo and conflicting info.

Not using a dolphin bar and don’t have dolphin installed. Do I need either for this to work?
I’m paired on internal BT. USB dongle didn’t make a difference.

I’m running RetroPie 4.8 (Buster) on RPi3b+ installed on Pinn /Noobs.

Wiimote is generation 1 original hardware and uses the adapter block for better resolution and confirmed working on original hardware. The IR bar is old wireless bar.

ExarKunIv

@anotherbob
i dont know how your setup is since you are using a wireless IR bar.

i have a MAYFLASH W010 Wireless Sensor Dolphinbar and it works fine

i used this to help get going
https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/fzazkq/quick_guide_to_getting_light_gun_games_working_in/

its not cut and dry, but with a bunch of messing around i got duck hunt to work fine

anotherbob

@ExarKunIv

Think you’re right. Just ordered a dolphin bar.

retropieuser555

I've also got a dolphin bar and it's pretty useful. As a rule of thumb, the nes zapper was usually in controller 2, so setup the input with that in mind.

Edit :- https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-guide-friendlier-version-of-the-mayflash-dolphinbar-s-instruction-manual this manual helped me understand the dolphin bar and what modes are available depending on if you use the nunchuk or whatever

WhiteT982

May not help since I’m using mine with Dolphin (not as a lightgun) and in x86 but maybe it’ll give you something to think about.

But I had to make a file called 51-gcadapter.rules and place it in /etc/udev/rules.d. The file contains the following

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="057e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0337", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="057e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0306", MODE="0666"

The usb device is for the GameCube controller adapter so you could ignore that. But the hidraw device is my dolphinbar which is what I had to do to get it to work with Dolphin.

Once again this was to get my wiimotes to work with Dolphin so may have absolutely nothing to do with a lightgun setup.