On August 19, 2008, Hillcrest Laboratories Inc. filed a complaint against Nintendo with the U.S International Trade Commission, alleging that the Wii Remote infringed on three of its patents. A fourth Hillcrest patent (for graphical interfaces displayed on television screens) was also allegedly violated. Hillcrest sought a ban on Wii consoles imported to the U.S. [123] On August 24, 2009 Nintendo and Hillcrest reached a settlement, although the terms were not publicly disclosed. [124]

Accessed with the Wii Remote's Home button, the Home Menu displays information about the controller(s) currently being used, and allows the user to configure certain options. At the bottom of the menu screen, the battery life of all connected controllers is displayed. Below that is a bar labeled Wii Remote Settings. Selecting it brings users to an options screen where they can control the audio output volume, rumble settings, and reconnect the controllers, for example to connect Wii Remotes through one-time synchronization. Depending on when the Home Menu is accessed, a different number of buttons are displayed. Sensor Bar Position, IR Sensitivity, Speaker Volume, and Wii Remote Motor are duplicates of Wii settings. They do exactly what they say they do, and work exactly like the same settings on the Wii itself.Similarities have been noted between the Wii Remote and an early Dreamcast controller prototype. [17] ThinkOptics Sues Nintendo Over Remote Control Patents - Law360". www.law360.com . Retrieved 2018-09-05. a b c d e Hall, Kenji. "The Big Ideas Behind Nintendo's Wii". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on October 15, 2007 . Retrieved August 30, 2007.

a b "Nintendo Wii – Hardware Information". Nintendo. Archived from the original on February 12, 2008 . Retrieved May 9, 2006. Fletcher, JC (October 8, 2009). "Nintendo announces new Pokemon spinoff, new Wiimote colors, hardware bundles at retailer event". Joystiq. Weblogs, Inc. Archived from the original on October 11, 2009 . Retrieved October 14, 2009. Mapping WiiMote to Right Joy-Con. Refer to image above for easier configuration. You just need to modify anything within the red box. Do not change anything else unless you know what you are doing! With Nintendo Switch getting sold for millions, many people, including perhaps yourself – that’s likely the reason you are here, have this great pair of controllers made by Nintendo: The Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons. Joy-Cons greatness doesn’t need to stop only on Nintendo Switch. Because you know what, Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons can also be used with Nintendo Wii! Well, Nintendo Wii emulator in this case. E3 2011: Wii Vitality Sensor still alive". Archived from the original on 2011-06-13 . Retrieved 2011-06-13.Factor 5 worked with GameCube motion controller". Aussie-Nintendo.com. July 28, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 . Retrieved August 30, 2007. Gerstmann, Jeff (December 12, 2006). "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess". CNET. Archived from the original on May 7, 2008. RC: Fobis Technologies Weemote Kids' Remote Control Review (1)". www.remotecentral.com . Retrieved 2018-07-22. The Wii's successor console, the Wii U, supports the Wii Remote and its peripherals in games where use of the features of the Wii U GamePad is not mandated. The Wii U's successor, the Nintendo Switch, features a follow-up named Joy-Con. The Wii Remote contains a 16 KiB EEPROM chip of which a section of 6 kilobytes can be read and written to by the host. [52] [58] Part of this memory is available to store up to ten Mii avatars, which can be transported to use with another Wii console (but it can be used to upload Miis to the Mii Parade and keep it on the console (by copying Mii to remote, moving Mii to parade from console, and then moving from remote to the console)). 4,000bytes are available for game use before the Mii data. Pokémon Battle Revolution and Super Swing Golf also use this memory. This function is also used in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, allowing the user to save controller configuration data to the Wii Remote. [59] Monster Hunter Tri also uses this function by allowing players to save their profiles to the Wii Remote. Pokémon Rumble uses this section to store Pokémon. Carnival Games: Mini Golf and Club Penguin: Game Day! as well as other games use this to store the player's in game avatars. [60] The game Petz: Monkey Madness allows players to transport their monkey between copies of the game.

To use the actual GameCube Controllers using an Official GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U (and its clones), see How to use the Official GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U in Dolphin. It does not require any button configuration. That does not apply to the adapters that behave as generic controllers and need to be configured (see below). a b "Nintendo to set Summer '09 ablaze with Wii MotionPlus and Wii Sports Resort". Nintendo of Europe. April 14, 2009. Archived from the original on April 17, 2009 . Retrieved April 15, 2009. todbot blog» Blog Archive» "WiiChuk" Wii Nunchuk Adapter Available". Todbot.com . Retrieved March 23, 2011. TGS 2005: Revolution Teaser Video". IGN. September 16, 2005. Archived from the original on May 11, 2008 . Retrieved June 7, 2020. Beaumont, Claudine (December 12, 2008). "Nintendo sued over 'dangerous' Wii controllers". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved December 28, 2017.Sliwinski, Alexander (December 8, 2006). "Jumpin' jinkies, new Wii straps". joystiq.com . Retrieved February 24, 2007.

a b Nintendo of America (April 14, 2009). "Nintendo to Set Summer '09 Ablaze with Wii MotionPlus and Wii Sports Resort". Business Wire . Retrieved April 14, 2009. If the remote does not seem to want to connect, make sure that any real Wiis in proximity are switched off for the duration of the pairing process.a b Hatfield, Don (10 August 2012). "CLUB NINTENDO OFFERING UP LIMITED EDITION GOLD WII NUNCHUK!". MTV.com . Retrieved 3 September 2020. Smash Bros. DOJO!!". Smashbros.com. Archived from the original on August 6, 2011 . Retrieved March 23, 2011. In the Red Steel trailer shown at E3 2006, the Wii Remote had a smaller circular shaped image sensor instead of the larger opaque IR filters shown on other versions. [18] In the initial teaser video that revealed the controller at Tokyo Game Show 2005, the 1 and 2 buttons were labeled X and Y. [19] Strap [ edit ] New strap (left) next to the original strap design