Wii remote trouble

[d.vader]

I have 4 Wii remotes and when I was on the home screen I decided to turn off my Wii using the Wii remote.

Well, I pressed the power button on the Wii Remote and the cursor disappeared and I wasn't connected to the Wii anymore. I did this with another controller and it didn't work either.

After several trials of this with all 4 controllers, I found that only 2 of the 4 had actually turned off my Wii and turned it back on whenever I pressed the power button. The other two seemed to have turned off my Wii remote.

If I accidentally pressed the power button off during a game that could be bad in the sense that I would suddenly be disconnected from my game.

Does this happen to anyone? Is it normal? Did I do something wrong?

Please help...

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

Make sure your remotes are synched the normal way (pressing the red buttons under the battery cover), not the "quick" way (through the system's Wii remotes menu).

Also, how would you ever accidentally press the power button in the middle of a game? Sure, disconnecting in the middle of the game would be bad, but so would the power going off in the middle of the game.

[d.vader]

I don't think I connected the Wii remotes using the Sync button. I probably did it from the menu screen.

Actually, my wife said that the controller stopped working. I have to guess that somehow she pressed the power button even though she tells me she doesn't remember how it was done.

I figured it out just by trying different things until I discovered it had to be the power button.

I thought pressing that button would turn off the Wii system, not the Wii remote. Could it be a sync issue? The battery is pretty full.

Just one more bit of detail:

I separated the two "good" Wii remotes (the ones that can turn the system on and off) from the two "bad" ones (the ones that can't turn the system on and off).

The good ones has the 4 lights at the bottom that shows 2 of them blinking whenever I touch any button on the Wii remotes.

The bad ones has the 4 lights as well, but they don't blink when I press any button EXCEPT when they are the 1 and 2 button simultaneously. When it blinks, it blinks 3 lights instead of the 2 like the good ones.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

I don't know, it could be a sync issue. I'm not sure whether temp-synched remotes can turn the power off on the main console or not. I suppose I could just de-sync my remotes and check. Or you could try synching your "bad" remotes the real way and see if it changes anything.

[The shoemaker]

When I first got three remotes I had a hard time Snycing my remotes because it seamed only one remote could be 1 player, and the others were just kind of a distraction. Now it all seams good since i can use any remote to be 1 player.

But to your problem I find it odd that the Good remotes blink and the bad don't, I was thinking it's be opposite.

[dk_xcalibur]

I never had this problem and I have taken my wiimotes to my sister's house to temp. use on their Wii. My guess is that Jogurt is right and it's a sync problem. I would re-sync the wiimotes that do not work. Follow the instructions that came with the wiimotes exactly. If you lost the instructions then check Nintendo's website out.

[d.vader]

Originally Posted by dk_xcalibur

I never had this problem and I have taken my wiimotes to my sister's house to temp. use on their Wii. My guess is that Jogurt is right and it's a sync problem. I would re-sync the wiimotes that do not work. Follow the instructions that came with the wiimotes exactly. If you lost the instructions then check Nintendo's website out.

I think it's fixed. I re-synced the "bad" Wii remotes and now I don't seem to have the problem anymore.

Thanks for all the suggestions, esp. to JtY.

[kawaiipikachu]

But as for different number of LED's (lights) blinking when you are connecting is nothing to worry about it's just showing you how much power the batteries have .

While that info is unfortunately absent from instructions but still a lot of poeple figure things out easily (like me)