2 Wii's in the same room possible ??

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Hi planning to have a bit of a mario kart party soon with 2 wiis and playing online as there'll be about 8 of us.

Just wondering can you have 2 wiis in the same room b/c of the sensor bar ??
 
as long as the wii mote cant see the other sensor bar you should be ok i think

the wii motes just use the infra red LED's to work out its position etc then sends that back to the wii via bluetooth as far as i know?

I have a friend who made his own sensor bar cos the cable on the original wasnt long enough for his room. we have played multiplayer games on the same console with it, me using the home made sensor bar in front of us and him using the original sensor bar to the right of us lol
 
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Syph said:
Just make sure you properly sync the remotes to the right Wii and you'll be fine.
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not so sure

as far as i know there is no information sent to and from the wiimote and the sensor bar. the wiimotes just use the sensor bar to work out its current position etc.

you can run a sensor bar off batteries if you wanted and the wiimote would still work as normal with the wii :)

so by having 2 different sensor bars in the same room, roughly in the same area, the wiimote may be able to see both and chances are it would force the wiimote into working out an incorrect position, making games unplayable

id say the best way would be to have a sensor bar at each end of the room, and basically sit back to back
 
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cokecan72 said:
not so sure

as far as i know there is no information sent to and from the wiimote and the sensor bar. the remotes just use the sensor bar to work out its current position etc.

you can run a sensor bar off batteries if you wanted and the wiimote would still work as normal with the wii :)
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Yes, but the Wii remote still sends information back to the Wii. That is why they need to be synced properly.
 
ah lol sorry i was thinking of something else

yes, they will need to be synced up properlly to each wii to stop it thinking your wiimote is player 2 of the other wii lol

but still, the sensor bar bit may still cause confusion
 
Sensor bar is utterly irrelevant, as I don't think it uses the IR positioning for anything. If you use the wheel, surely the IR sensor is hidden away anyway? I'm pretty sure Mario Kart just uses the motion sensors in the remote.

I'd be more worried about the bluetooth, and whether the two Wii's will get confused. I don't know how it syncs and how the Wii will know which remotes to talk to. If it just syncs based on "remote 1" then you'll be stuffed, as there will be two "remote 1"'s in the room. If it syncs based on something more unique, say, the serial number of the Wii or the remote, then you'll be OK.
 
vonhelmet said:
Sensor bar is utterly irrelevant, as I don't think it uses the IR positioning for anything. If you use the wheel, surely the IR sensor is hidden away anyway? I'm pretty sure Mario Kart just uses the motion sensors in the remote.

I'd be more worried about the bluetooth, and whether the two Wii's will get confused. I don't know how it syncs and how the Wii will know which remotes to talk to. If it just syncs based on "remote 1" then you'll be stuffed, as there will be two "remote 1"'s in the room. If it syncs based on something more unique, say, the serial number of the Wii or the remote, then you'll be OK.
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Can't comment on other peripherals but I've definitely noticed the Wiimotes not working if something is blocking their path.

I've never covered up the IR sensor on the remote intentionally, but if somebody stands in the way, or you try it through an object it doesn't quite move the way it should and disappears at points.
 
nikebee said:
Can't comment on other peripherals but I've definitely noticed the Wiimotes not working if something is blocking their path.

I've never covered up the IR sensor on the remote intentionally, but if somebody stands in the way, or you try it through an object it doesn't quite move the way it should and disappears at points.
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Yeh but I think vonhelmet means that the game in question doesn't use the IR sensor as selection and the game is done with the buttons on the controller or the accelerometers.
 
nikebee said:
Can't comment on other peripherals but I've definitely noticed the Wiimotes not working if something is blocking their path.

I've never covered up the IR sensor on the remote intentionally, but if somebody stands in the way, or you try it through an object it doesn't quite move the way it should and disappears at points.
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As Tobes said above - I meant that Mario Kart doesn't use the IR sensors. You could unplug the sensor bars and the only thing that would stop working would be the menus, assuming they're pointer based which I'm sure they are.
 
As already mentioned, sensor bar is a bit of a misnomer. It does not sense anything, simply emit 2 points of infra red light - this is picked up by a sensor on the end of the remote. All of the communication between remote and console is done by bluetooth.

So you will need things to be set up so the remotes for each console cannot see the sensor of the other TV - at opposite ends of the room or back to back would make sense.
 
We've done this with 2 Wii's before. 2 projectors side by side and one sensor bar underneath them both. Works flawlessly :)
 
shouldnt really have a problem with mario kart assuming not too much pointing is going on, which it shouldnt lol.

I don't know how it syncs and how the Wii will know which remotes to talk to. If it just syncs based on "remote 1" then you'll be stuffed, as there will be two "remote 1"'s in the room. If it syncs based on something more unique, say, the serial number of the Wii or the remote, then you'll be OK.
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im pretty sure they are treated as a proper bluetooth device with each wiimote having its own signature. you can sync the wiimote to the pc if you have are bluetooth capable
 
tripitaka said:
Clever - didn't think of the one bar for both approach. Does this have any effect on the aiming? I guess it's fine for menus etc.
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You're never really aiming exactly at the screen with Wii target games anyway, so I doubt it makes much difference.
 
Because, as said, the sensor bar isn't a sensor of any type - it's just a pair of LEDs. You don't need to plug it into both Wiis, because all it does is take power from them. One sensor bar plugged into one Wii is enough.

It's the same way your pointer goes a bit crazy in direct sunlight. The remote is picking up all the light and thinking it's another sensor bar emission, and so goes crazy trying to calculate its own position.
 
tripitaka said:
Clever - didn't think of the one bar for both approach. Does this have any effect on the aiming? I guess it's fine for menus etc.
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As said it's never 100% accurate for any screen, or even anywhere close for most, so it causes no issues at all even for fps/warioware games because you just use the sensor bar as your point of reference and adjust from there. It's not a 1:1 mapping like a light gun, it's all relative.
 
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