I told ya'll last week that my cat chewed through the cable to my sensor bar and it had been like a week since I've been able to play Twilight Princess. Finally fustrated over the fact, I decided to get online and see if I could find some tips for repairing the wire myself. What I came across was pretty interesting though.
For some time now we've been under the impression that the Sensor Bar was the interface that the Wii used to communicate with the controller. Well I'm here to tell you people that that is wrong! The sensor bar itself is only a string of 10 Infrared LEDs, 5 on each side of the bar, that's it. We've been under the impression that the LEDs were in the Wiimote itself and the sensor bar was the "tracker" of it's movement, which it then sent to the Wii via cable. We've had it backwards this whole time. The Wiimote itself is the tracker and the Sensor bar provides the light the wiimote needs in order to track itself. What the Sensor bar does is so basic that you don't even need one. You can replace it with two Candles even and acheive the same effect!
I've been using the candle method all day. And it works just as well as the sensor bar itself did. no problems until the fire began to disappear behind the melted wax. Easily remedied by just removing the excess wax though. I just wish I would've found this out sooner, would've been able to save $15 buying a new one from Nintendo...
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We brought the Wii home and played it pretty much nonstop for the past 24 hours. At 12:10am, during a slower couch-sitting game of Wii Sports: Bowling, my Nintendo Wii got angry with me.
My buddy Troy reels back to roll his ball as he's done about 300 times tonight suddenly feels the controller slip from his hand. (THANK GOD for the wrist strap right?)
Nope. Wrist strap snaps. The Wiimote flies across the room impaling my 60" rear projection TV square in the upper left corner.
Be warned: Sweaty hands + faulty Wiimote wrist strap = broken ass TV.
I don't know much of the details about rear projection TVs. That might just be the outer glass. You can see a small white smudge from where part of the Wiimote hit the screen.
The candles function as a light source, remotes send out invisible infra red signals and only when you push the buttons, so I don't think that would work.
Wii Sensor Bar Secret Revealed!!!
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Originally Posted by soul controller
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