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Review on ๐ŸŽฎ Enhanced Gaming Sensation: Mayflash W010 Wireless Sensor DolphinBar for Wii - Unleash the True Wii Experience! by Charles Osguthorpe

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Eating batteries, tedious setup

Pain to get started with my Raspberry Pi 4b. This is not due to the hardware, but to a complicated setting in the emulators, since some Mame emulators do not work with it. When run in a mode that registers the wiimote as a mouse it works, however it only works with ONE wiimote in mouse mode. For multiple wiimotes to work with light gun games you need to use mode 3 or 4 (I don't remember). BUT you MUST also have nunchucks attached to each for the IR sensor to register as an analog input. Sounds easy, but configuring IR inputs is an absolute hassle. If you don't mind doing all this to play lightgun games for 2 or more players then that's fine BUT. For some reason, when the system is powered off, the Wiimote's LEDs go out, but the Wiimote remains powered on and connected. It took me a lot of AA batteries and 2 new Wiimotes to figure it out. It just eats breakfast batteries from your wiimote, and until lunchtime when you are ready to play, your wiimote will stay disconnected due to low battery. I saw another reviewer complain that it wouldn't stay connected and I suspect a low battery was his problem. When everything is set up and working it's very accurate and just amazing, but for my use it's not worth the price. In terms of durability, I put it in a box with a handful of controllers for a week and when I tried again, it was deformed. Not broken, deformed. Connected to a real Wii, it doesn't even seem to activate the IR LEDs, so it's useless as a backup remote. Spend the extra money and buy Sinden or Aimtrak if you can find them. Unless you only use it for 1 player and don't mind setting it up.

Pros
  • One year trial
Cons
  • It's ok