Wireless nunchuck problem

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-09-21 08:47am

Nyko's website isn't helping and Google doesn't get me any usable result, but maybe one of you people knows what's going on.

I've got a wireless nunchuck from Nyko. It worked fine for a while, then all of a sudden the calibration of the accelerometer went wrong; whenever the nunchuck is plugged in it'll act as if I'm tilting it 90° to the right. The buttons and stick work fine, and the meter itself still works because tilting it to the left makes the nunchuck act like it's pointed straight up, so something's still registering.

I've tried resynching the nunchuck with the Wiimote receiver, changing the batteries, starting it up pointed in the other direction, but nothing works.

Is this thing just conveniently busted right outside of warranty or can I somehow get it recalibrated?

Post by **weemadando** » 2008-09-21 04:07pm

Has the Wii updated recently? Because Nintendo hates anyone taking from their gigantic pile of money...

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-09-21 05:46pm

No, the last update didn't break it. I don't see how it could, the Nyko reports the same raw data to the console as a real nunchuck would.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-09-21 07:41pm

weemadando wrote:Has the Wii updated recently? Because Nintendo hates anyone taking from their gigantic pile of money...

You mean for a product they don't sell and appears indistinguishable at the hardware level? Mean trick.

Bounty, I'm not sure you're going to be able to fix this. If there was software you could access, it'd be simple, but if it's reporting information properly and just has the wrong 'rest' position, you need a calibration, which I'm not sure Wii has.

EDIT - Actually, isn't there something you can do when you're connecting the controller to reset the 'rest' position? I can't be bothered dusting off my Wii, but I'm certain there's something like that. You may have tried it already I guess.

Post by **weemadando** » 2008-09-22 02:27am

But their malevolence knows no earthly bounds!

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-09-22 08:13am

There's no calibration function on the Wii, Nintendo controllers auto-calibrate on startup. Maybe there's one when you first sync up the remote, but that won't help with the Nunchuck. I guess I'm boned.

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2008-09-22 09:38am

Stark wrote:EDIT - Actually, isn't there something you can do when you're connecting the controller to reset the 'rest' position? I can't be bothered dusting off my Wii, but I'm certain there's something like that. You may have tried it already I guess.

There is some "reset" combination for the nunchuck (which I can't recall offhand), but that only re-zeroes the analogue stick.

Has the wireless nunchuck ever taken a serious whack at some point? It sounds as if the accelerometer might have been knocked out of position, and is reporting back the wrong values. Either way, this doesn't sound like something that's easily going to be fixed.

I assume you've tested it with a wired nunchuck just to make sure it isn't the Wii or Wiimote at fault here?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-09-22 01:23pm

I assume you've tested it with a wired nunchuck just to make sure it isn't the Wii or Wiimote at fault here?

I tried different wiimotes, different games, tried it with a wired nunchuck, nothing. You're right, the accelerometer's probably out of whack. It's not a problem with games that don't use the nunchuck's motion sensor, but those are few and far between.

It's a damn shame, because the Nyko worked brilliantly before. All the functionality of the wired version, none of the wires. I don't remember ever whacking it into something, but I did let my cousins play with it and they might've been a bit too enthusiastic.