Wii controller not working

Nintendo64

Hey I had a question about the wii games. I'm running batocera 64 bit 5.20 (the latest version) and I put some wii roms on the emulator and they work but the controller doesn't get recognized. It works on other emulators. I'm using a ps4 controller and a 64bit pc. I hope someone can help.

-theNintendo64

nadenislamarre

by default, in 5.20 and before, it requires a wiimote.
on 5.21, the pad will be mapped to a gamecube controller, if the wii game allow this, it will work,
in other case, you can enabled wiimote.emulated=1in recalbox.conf. see the readme.txt file in the roms/wii directory.

Nintendo64

nadenislamarre thanks I will try it as soon as possible!!! And where can I download 5.21??

Nintendo64

nadenislamarre I downloaded 5.20 and Mario Mario kart and I copy and paste the name from the Readme and the controller still doesn't get recognized. What should I do?

-Nintendo64

Luu

nadenislamarre Hi .. first I wanted to say thanks for your awesome work.
I tried to play cod mw3 for wii console. but it didn't work I asume that because the gamecube controller and this game needs a classic one.
so is there any way to play this kind of games?
I'd be very thankful if you respond me.

joinski

Nintendo64

here:
https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/forum/d/2129-5-21-beta2

Nintendo64

joinski thank you very much!!!!!!!

BMC_War_Machine

Im in the same boat as well. I changed the emulated wiimotes to = 1, added .side to the game like mentioned in the release notes with no luck. I tried this with a few games and nothing worked. It always shows the "Wiimote 1" through "Wiimote 4" disconnected message at the top left of the screen in yellow. The weird thing is, if i open up dolphin through the file explorer and manually map out the controls, then load the game from the file explorer and NOT the main menu in Batocera it works just fine. Seems like for some reason the user config is getting changed when launching from the main menu? Anyone have any ideas? I mainly want to use this for games that can be played with just the wiimote sideways only, no nun chuck etc.

joinski

marcelosofth and BMC_War_Machine
Maybe we should remind the developers (@nadenislamarre for example) regarding this issue again via discord chat?
I will post it there.

Edit: i just posted it in the disord chat under #issues-troubleshooting
Unfortunately you sometimes have to insist more persistant to the developers regarding an issue.
They can not read/notice everything that is posted in the forum, because their time is limited (their focus is on other but also important things). so please understand.

marcelosofth

This is an old problem that I have been talking about and it seems that no one of the programmers really wants to test it, the solution is so simple and easy, just that Batocera loads the control configuration of the Dolphin as it is done running the Dolphin outside the Gui.

nadenislamarre

noticed. i will recheck.

joinski

nadenislamarre thanks! 🙂

Fransis

I'm the first time I'm going to use the wii controls with the emulator.
I bought a "clone" wiimote, a USB sensor bar. When I enter the games, the wiimote synchronizes, but it is very difficult for me to synchronize, and it disconnects me intermittently.
what I came to ask you, is if you know if dolphin supports the wii commands well, I mean if you can play as well as with a wii.
for trying another bluetooth adapter, even trying to buy an original remote, just in case it was the controller's fault.
Greetings and thank you

nadenislamarre

@Fransis disconnection comes from the dongle or the wiimote. it works perfectly as on a real wii on my side. some dongle are not well supported on linux.

there are several misunderstoods around the issue i think.
I try to explain what i've understood.

first, if you try to modify the pad configuration via the dolphin configuration tool, pads section, then run a game, batocera will reconfigure automatically the pads according to what is plugged. this is the normal process. the gui is for configuration properties which are not under the control of batocera.
if batocera didn't do that automatically, each time you change a pad or change pad order or anything else, you would have to go back in the configuration tool to reconfigue all. this is what batocera answer : having an out of the box configuration.
as a general rule, you cannot configure pads manually with batocera, and for each emulator, some other properties under the control of batocera are automatiaclly forced by batocera to ensure all will work.
configuration gui are there only for some advanced user to teak some values, not for normal users.

example : in retroarch, you can change the video display driver from gl to sdl for example. this breaks many feature if you do that. this value is forced when running a game because in the past, this problem was seen several times,

second. for super mario kart, you've nothing to do (not have to modify recalbox.conf) while this games supports gamecube controllers. just plug any pad, and play a game and it is suppose to work. if not they may be a problem of course,but from the message, i don't know exactly in which case you are.

my main guess is that something is wrong in the recalbox.conf file, but i don't exclude a bug i can't reproduce on my side. can you copy me it please ?

"no one of the programmers really wants to test it" @marcelosofth, this kind of message it not very motivating for us. people here are taking a lot of time for others. but our time is not extensible infinitly. When i read this post the first time, i tested to control all worked. i answer. i switched to an other one and after i even added the gamecube pads configuration support for the wii.

Fransis

nadenislamarre Thanks buddy, I already assumed that it had to be the dongle or the wiimote, I imagine that the dongle of asus does not work very well in linux, I remember that I already had problems with it in the past.
I will search for a compatible realtek or similar and try again, the truth is that I really want to play Wii again.
thanks for the great work and attention

nadenislamarre

@BMC_War_Machine or maybe you broke something with the gui configuration that is not controlled by batocera.
can you rename system/config/dolphin and rerun a wii game without changing configuration via the gui

Dragu

nadenislamarre
In 5.20 the WII emulation mode was working perfectly, even if some people didn't arrived to configurate it.
On 5.21 this was not the case anymore and it was no individual configurations reloaded at game start. Now,
for me, if you dont switch back to 5.20, concerning Dolphin, you will never resolve the problem in emulated
game controllers. That you look for real WIImote connection is ok, as long as it not destroy functioning of emulated
game cube controllers, what is the case for 5.21.

marcelosofth

nadenislamarre Mario Kart Wii really works the control, but I do not see any advantage in just let this game work if the others do not work, I will give another example, one of the best games of the Wii is Donk Kong Country, this game requires Wiiremote and also of the motion sensor mapped, otherwise the Monkey can not leave the house in the first phase, ie outside the Gui it is possible to map all the buttons, however within the Gui these settings are ignored and only work the standard buttons and does not solve the problem of button mapping, motion sensor, etc.

I am not sure why the Atari 800 and Atari 5200 are separate because they can not run their bios separately for their systems, that is, whenever the last selected bios will call the next system, it is urgent to do the same process that is done in Colecovision and MSX where Bios exists as "Auto".

BMC_War_Machine

nadenislamarre sorry for the late response. I tried that and had no luck. Really this is the only thing i cannot get working right with Batocera. Everything else works beautifully. I don't stress too much on the negative comments. People sometimes get frustrated when they are tinkering with things for days and weeks on end with no success, even when others say "it works for me". Im guilty of that myself at times lol. I understand what it's like to be working on something with a very small team and it can get hectic at times for sure. Just know that a lot of us on here appreciate what you guys do.

nadenislamarre

@Dragu ok, but you must be more precise while it works on my side.

batocera 5.22 :
nothing in batocera.conf about wii.
classical pad plugged > starting mario kart => working
classical pad plugged + wii.emulatedwiimotes=1 > starting mario kart => working

however, just understand that in this order, my pad is configured for both gamecube+wii, thus maybe it may cause trouble. but it works.

can you give me a way it is not working please ?

nadenislamarre

@marcelosofth in the thread, Nintendo64 is talking about super mario kart. you told it is a known issue. in your last post, you say it works.
i understand that there is a problem, but we must be precise, otherwise, i will not found the problem.

nadenislamarre

"I am not sure why the Atari 800 and Atari 5200 are separate because they can not run their bios separately for their systems, that is, whenever the last selected bios will call the next system, it is urgent to do the same process that is done in Colecovision and MSX where Bios exists as "Auto" : not understood.

marcelosofth

nadenislamarre they use the same core and that is why there is only a single configuration for the 2, so when I choose Bios Atari 5200 it is also used for the Atari 800 and there are the big problems because it has Atari games 800 that do not accept Bios Atari 5200.

Ps: This happens also with Colecovision and MSX, but there is the option of "Auto Detect" as well so the system identifies what type of game is running and calls the corresponding bios, that is what must exist for the Atari 800 and 5200.

bluemsx_cartmapper = "Auto"

nadenislamarre

i've created a patch that may solve your issue.
please test and report the next 5.22 beta https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/upgrades/x86_64/beta/
so that i see if that's enough or something must be done before the 5.22 release.
i will build it in the coming hours.

Dragu

nadenislamarre
Sure, I can give you. So, if in 5.20 I configurate the joysticks and buttons of my USB controllers as Game cube emulation, this is normally the default configuration that will not be erased when I leave ES. I can also save this configuration under a profile where I choose the name and that I can reload at wish after boot.
In both case I can just play with the configuration from last time. In 5.21, as soon as I start game, he use a phantasy configuration that I never defined and that he probably derive from some retroarch config that was never in relation to a dolphin game in my gameplay. To be accurate, I have no idea where this configuration is coming from. And even when I reload my saved profile configuration, I always land at startup with the phantasy one.
You can just not use always the same keys for different games because of the differences in the games. Therefore in Dolphin as in Dosbox, standard automatic game control make just no sense.