Wii Mote Drivers For Mac

Do you want a gamepad for your Mac, but don’t want to buy yet another controller? Use your WiiMote as a gamepad with Wjoy. This app doesn’t enable motion controls on your Mac, but it does let you use your WiiMote as a simple gamepad – perfect for games and even emulators if that’s what you like to do.

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Not everyone knows it, but the WiiMote connects to the Wii using Bluetooth – and there’s nothing stopping you from using the WiiMote with any computer that uses Bluetooth. The Mac is no exception.

We’ve shown you how to connect your WiiMote to your PCHow To Connect Your Wiimote To Your PCHow To Connect Your Wiimote To Your PCHow do you prefer to interact with your computer? Sometimes a mouse and keyboard just isn’t enough. Depending on what you’re doing, a completely different interface method is required for you to get the most..Read More, and while that process is great – you end up with full motion control – it’s also fairly complex. This Mac solution is simple, letting you use any WiiMote with your Mac in a matter of minutes.

Getting Started

  1. Because Windows internally ranks all possible drivers for a device mainly by their signing, the default driver might be still used for the Wii Remote. This driver ranking will be performed each time the device is.
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Before we begin: you’ll need to turn Bluetooth onWhat Is Bluetooth? [Technology Explained]What Is Bluetooth? [Technology Explained]Read More before you can use this. If you don’t have Bluetooth you’re out of luck, sorry.

A Mac computer with a bluetooth adaptor (Most laptops have built-in bluetooth chipsets) An infrared pen. You can build the pen yourself or get a pre-made one from our partners as listed on our Reseller page.

Go ahead and download Wjoy. It’s a typical Mac package, so install by dragging the enclosed application to your Applications folder. Start it up and you’ll see a WiiMote icon in your Menu Bar, along with a notification:

Go ahead and press the 1 and 2 buttons. Your WiiMote should shake, as usual, and then you’re ready to go:

Wiimote Mouse

You can click the WiiMote icon in the tray if you want information about your WiiMotes, including the battery life. You can also quit the programming from here, which will also disconnect all of your WiiMotes from your Mac.

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The real brilliance of this program is that any and all programs capable of recognizing a joystick will now recognize your WiiMote as one. Sometimes this will require some in-game configuration – here’s me setting up Braid:

I might be short on buttons with just my WiiMote.

Other programs will simply work out of the box, but check the options in your game to learn more. Hold your WiiMote sideways and you’re ready to play. The Classic Controller is also supported, meaning you can potentially use more buttons if you’ve got access to that accessory.

Oh, and if a game you want to play doesn’t support gamepads check out Enjoy, which lets you map gamepad buttons to keyboard buttons. It’s a little work to set up, but worth it if you want to game using your WiiMote.

Conclusion

Of course this isn’t the only thing you can use a WiiMote for. We’ve outlined 6 crazy, interesting or useful ways to use a WiiMote6 Crazy, Interesting Or Useful Ways To Use a WiiMote6 Crazy, Interesting Or Useful Ways To Use a WiiMoteWhen Nintendo released the WiiMote, it was arguably a console industry game changer. The concept of interacting with a game using your physical body was born. Lifelike motion controls enabled it to appeal to a..Read More, and you can of course connect your WiiMote to your PCHow To Connect Your Wiimote To Your PCHow To Connect Your Wiimote To Your PCHow do you prefer to interact with your computer? Sometimes a mouse and keyboard just isn’t enough. Depending on what you’re doing, a completely different interface method is required for you to get the most..Read More.

And if you’re looking for alternative uses for your WiiMotes you might also be curious about alternative uses for your Wii. You can check out these homebrew solutions that give your Wii new jobsFind 6 New Uses For Your Old Wii With A Few Homebrew SolutionsFind 6 New Uses For Your Old Wii With A Few Homebrew SolutionsThe Wii, and every game console, is basically a computer hooked up to your television. By default this doesn't mean much – you can only use the Wii to do things Nintendo intends – but..Read More, but you’ll have to jailbreak your Wii with LetterbombHow to Set Up Your Wii for Homebrew Using LetterbombHow to Set Up Your Wii for Homebrew Using LetterbombIn ancient times, running homebrew software required owning a specific game and corrupting its save data to run an exploit. It was complicated. The most recent hack, which has been working for a year now,..Read More first. Believe me, it’s worth it.

What Mac games are you playing with your WiiMote? Let me know in the comments below, complete with links if you’re feeling generous.

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  1. wow, it's cruel that THIS IS ONLY FOR MAC!

  2. i needed a windows version, but THERE IS NO WINDOWS VERSION!

  3. When i connect i disconnects a second later
    it used to work but now it does this all the time

  4. How do you make it work with Dolphin?

  5. I am able to connect my wii remote, but no game works with it. All of my steam games can use gamepads and none of them recognize it.

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  6. enjoy is a broken link.. is there an archive of the program somewhere?

  7. Never knew Nintendo and Apple were secretly an alliance..anyway I'll have to show my friend how to do this.

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  8. Cool. Is there anything like it for windows?

  9. This is really cool, I wonder if minecraft will work well with it!