Wii Sensor Bar

Thats funny, mine is going on two~three years and it works perfectly. In fact, ive never ever had an official Nintendo product die on me yet.... (even my NES still works perfectly!)

I would say your never going to find a knock-off that works like the real thing, but if your not trusting the official Wii sensor bar try searching customer reviews on big sites like Best Buy and see what people are saying about the different kinds?

 

I'd get another from Nintendo. The wii is pretty well built and I think your sensor bar breaking was an anomaly. For something as vital to the wii as the sensor bar I wouldn't recommend getting something made by a third party.

 

Woo! *nintendo pride*
All Nintendo products I have work amazingly still, even after some have been dropped and beaten around. My sensor bar died, but that was because my cats got to the cord.
I got a wireless sensor bar which is alright. It works great and all but having to change the batteries all the time pisses the hell out of me.

 

Despite extensive abuse, my Wii sensor bar i still working fine. As new as yours is, you might be able to contact Nintendo and get a free replacement under warranty.

If you just need the sensor bar really quick to launch a game that doesn't need it (like Smash Bros.) a work around is to use two lighters. Light them and position them horizontally a few inches from each other, and point the Wiimote at them. Shaky, but works great if you need it.

 

Actually yes do this. I've heard that Nintendo's support for the Wii is FANTASTIC.

 

Did anything happen to it to make it stop working? Or did it simply conk out on you? I had mine attached to the bottom of my TV (which is mounted on the wall). Eventually, the sticky tape wore out and it fell off. But rather than just tape it back on, I just kept pushing it back on without adding more tape. (Let's hear it for laziness! If you can be bothered, that is...) It ended up falling off and banging into things about a dozen times before I finally wised up and retaped it.

...mine still works really well, though.

Lex

 

Could be a one thats been made bad. All it is, is 8 infra red LEDs. Depending on how its made up if ones goes then it stops the others working. Normally is down to the lead free solder thats rather crap and sort of stops things from working.

 

My cat chewed through my sensor bar, so I a Nyko wireless one. It works fine, but I'd suggest buying rechargeable batteries. It does eat up the juice. I think they are only like 20 bucks too.