Okay, to try and clear up some confusion, I knew that you could play Wii and Wii U on the gamepad, but I seriously didn't know there was a built in sensor bar in the gamepad itself. I know that still probably makes me dumb, but I seriously didn't know about the sensor bar!!
It was a great family console for me, but I think the general consensus was that it wasn’t the brand new system people were hoping for, and more of an upgrade to the wii. I think for the most part that those people were wrong.
@@Burdettedog honestly I realized something about Nintendo. Whenever they fail, they make good games for a good price. Whenever they succeed, they still make good games but they make bad decisions.
@@Burdettedog Now that you mention its sales, I think Nintendo might have gotten complacent with the high sales numbers of the switch, they aren't putting that many features into the switch as much as the Wii and WiiU.
When you get to the option of selecting your tv or tv and gamepad, press + on the wii remote to only use the game pad so that you don't have to use the tv just to have it on for selecting the tv and gamepad option
The Wii U was ahead of its time in really cool and innovative ways, but behind its time where it really counted. I’ll always love it and I tell people a lot just how cool it was
It came as an update around a year into the lifespan of the WiiU. Advertised in the update and everything. There's even a mode to only use the Gamepad.
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Those aren't cameras, just led's. The sensor bar is just 2 ir lights, the remotes do all the sensing. You can substitute a sensor bar with 2 candles. edit: holy shit
I told my mom this a few days ago and she didn’t believe me. Had to prove we didn’t need to waste FOUR BATTERIES on a sensor bar (yes I know, it was wireless)
You’re telling me you never saw the commercials about the kid switching from TV to handheld because the parent wanted to watch something? Dude that was the entire gimmick of the console 🤣
I found this out while trying to play Guitar Hero without the TV. The game itself doesn’t use it, but I realized I still needed the pointer to start the game up in the first place 😂
I brought my Wii U to school this year on the last week and this is how I played Wii Sports with all my friends. In the later days some teachers let me hook it up to their projectors as I brought the HDMI cable too.
i actually love that the wii u is finally being recognized for how underrated it was especially during that time period for nintendo. i genuinely miss the home menu and the miis 😭
Pretty much every Wii U commercial means 2 of the 3 commercials they produced lol. Marketing was so bad for this console, I bet there’s still people out there that don’t know the Wii U exists
This video is about the built-in sensor bar in the gamepad. I don't remember them ever selling this feature in any of the 4 commercials they made for this thing.
What’s funnier is that if you have two Wii’s or Wii u’s, you don’t need to plug in a sensor bar to both. The port for it is only there to power the bar, so you can plug it into a different Wii and it’ll still work on another Wii or Wii u
If the Wii U had GameCube backwards compatibility, I would be all over that, but nice to know I always have a miniature sencor I don't have to worry about
I remember when they updated this feature. Initially you had no choice between GamePad-only and TV. You had to use the sensor bar until the firmware update was applied.
The WiiU was the ultimate weapon to playing games at night. If you heard your parents coming to your room you just put in sleep mode from the gamepad and once they leave just turn it back on and continue
Yup, just two little lights. The remote has an IR camera, and it (probably) just maps where it sees the lights with X and Y coords and sends it to the console to math out where the TV would be in relation to that. Deceptively simple, and fricken genius :D
having the built in sensor bar is SO helpful. i was devastated i couldnt play wii games anymore because i lost by sensor bar but when i learned the gamepad had a censor bar i was ecstatic! if you go straight to the wii menu when you boot up the console (pressing + holding "B") you go straight to it and dont have to point your remote at the tv. thank you nintendo, for letting me play mario party 8 :)
Found this out a while back, I wanna say six to eight years ago. I was stuck at my Grandpa's house for a week and REALLY wanted to play Smash Brawl, but he didn't have a working TV at the time. Very cool surprise.
To buy it ? And okay games designed for party play and large displays and play it on a 5 inch screen with limited range of motion as compared to a real tv ?? Like this is not a reason to buy this shit at all 😂
i genuinely gotta thank you for this discovery, i never knew the rays were seeable with the camera. i needed this because ive seen that my sensor bar isnt working. 🙏 thank you
I'm honestly really shocked I didn't find out about this before. I remember I used to use that mode but when I needed to use the sensor bar I would just point at the actual sensor bar in a completely different direction. This would have come in handy had I known about it.
Okay so I have this strange story of how I kinda noticed I could do the whole turn off the TV on a school night but I kept the tablet thing and started to play like a pokemon game for the wii I can't exactly remember what it was called but piplup is a main character. Anywho I stayed up till 1 am grinding that Flippin game and pretty much was sluggish all day the next day. Also thanks for stopping by to read this tale
And because of the features you just talk about, the Wii U is awesome to take on a plane and play games. I can play anything from NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, N64, Wii and Wii U games, as long as the plane has a 110V plug available you will have hundreds of games available to play on those long flights. Enjoy, RobS
It's technically IR LEDs in the gamepad as the Wii Remote is what actually contains the IR camera. This means any IR source can be used as a sensor bar, even flames from a candle. The name is most likely a pun with "Censor bar" to fit the TV theming of the Wii.
I used this to play skylanders all the time when I was younger. Actually saved me from having to ask constantly, because I was allowed if I could find a way to play without the TV
You know it's funny, I used to play Wii games on the Gamepad all the time, but I never knew it had it's own sensor lmao, I just always played in the living room and aimed at the TV! Funny how that turned out lol
I've made use of this before when I was too lazy to set up my sensor bar. Just set the gamepad in front of the TV and used that instead. Worked really well
You can get a backpack, and get a Milwaukee battery with an AC adapter and connect the console to the battery inside the backpack and boom portable Wii.
That’s why I loved the Wii U I barely had a TV available so I can just plug the console to any outlet and technically play portably. Yeah, it’s such a hassle that you have to be near an outlet to play “portably” but it was the best feeling to have that you don’t need a TV at all to play the Wii U AND the Wii
Okay, to try and clear up some confusion, I knew that you could play Wii and Wii U on the gamepad, but I seriously didn't know there was a built in sensor bar in the gamepad itself.
I know that still probably makes me dumb, but I seriously didn't know about the sensor bar!!
Good
I've been utilising this for years lmao
@@Woganog same lol
If you read it carefully there's literally a piece of text that says "press + for gamepad only"
No need to even use TV at all
I already knew that, when playing the wii u back in the day
the wii u was criminally underrated
The lower hardware sales really pushed Nintendo into making fantastic games for the system to try and boost sales.
It was a great family console for me, but I think the general consensus was that it wasn’t the brand new system people were hoping for, and more of an upgrade to the wii. I think for the most part that those people were wrong.
The naming killed the console. People thought it was an add-on for the Wii. They learned the hard way
@@Burdettedog honestly I realized something about Nintendo. Whenever they fail, they make good games for a good price. Whenever they succeed, they still make good games but they make bad decisions.
@@Burdettedog Now that you mention its sales, I think Nintendo might have gotten complacent with the high sales numbers of the switch, they aren't putting that many features into the switch as much as the Wii and WiiU.
When you get to the option of selecting your tv or tv and gamepad, press + on the wii remote to only use the game pad so that you don't have to use the tv just to have it on for selecting the tv and gamepad option
Nice! Thanks for the extra tip!
I remember doing that on accident once
I just read what it said on the Wii u gamepad screen and I figured that out
Yeah that's what I do
If only I knew this when I was a kid
The Wii U was ahead of its time in really cool and innovative ways, but behind its time where it really counted. I’ll always love it and I tell people a lot just how cool it was
Oh my God. It's a toad wii remote with wii motion plus inside
Nice
Shits so fire
Poofesure hehaaa
Watch out poofs coming!
I have one its the best Wii remote that has ever existed
I’m surprised more people didn’t know this, I thought it was common knowledge 😭
I don't even have a WiiU, and I still knew this without anyone telling me.
@@PrinceDinoboy Same, I thought it was too obvoius even if I ever owned one
@@PrinceDinoboy It's crazy how we know (probably) more of a console that we didn't own than someone who does.
Same
It came as an update around a year into the lifespan of the WiiU. Advertised in the update and everything. There's even a mode to only use the Gamepad.
I remember finding out about this, was playing Wii Mode a room away from the Wii U
I miss my Wii U
first reply :)
I have my Wii u still but no gamepad so I can't Play it
I regret so much selling it…
How?? Our gamepad stopped working just sat at the opposite corner of the room?
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Wii u is easily top 5 most underrated consoles ever
Those aren't cameras, just led's. The sensor bar is just 2 ir lights, the remotes do all the sensing. You can substitute a sensor bar with 2 candles.
edit: holy shit
The power of inferred
Candle method saved my life quite a few times
Ye
I told my mom this a few days ago and she didn’t believe me. Had to prove we didn’t need to waste FOUR BATTERIES on a sensor bar (yes I know, it was wireless)
🤓
You’re telling me you never saw the commercials about the kid switching from TV to handheld because the parent wanted to watch something? Dude that was the entire gimmick of the console 🤣
I’m genuinely surprised more people don’t know this.
Especially considering it was a main feature they advertised.
Toad wii remote with Wii motion plus inside
Yeah. So?
poofsure
When it asks you for a display option, you can press “+” on the Wiimote and it’ll only output to the gamepad
I did this so many times when I was younger if I wanted to play Rhythm Heaven Fever in the morning when people are still sleeping
I found this out while trying to play Guitar Hero without the TV.
The game itself doesn’t use it, but I realized I still needed the pointer to start the game up in the first place 😂
I seriously can’t believe people didn’t know this… bro I used this all the time.
Same here😂
You can hear, almost like a whisper, “OH MY GOD”
OH MY GAWD
Nod to 1980sgamer
@@maric7558 indeed
I brought my Wii U to school this year on the last week and this is how I played Wii Sports with all my friends. In the later days some teachers let me hook it up to their projectors as I brought the HDMI cable too.
Loved doing that when I was a kid 😂
I miss booting the Wii U up and being met with Miis running around the central hub area, shouting art drawn with the stylus.
i actually love that the wii u is finally being recognized for how underrated it was especially during that time period for nintendo. i genuinely miss the home menu and the miis 😭
This was literally one of their selling points. It was in pretty much every commercial for them
Pretty much every Wii U commercial means 2 of the 3 commercials they produced lol. Marketing was so bad for this console, I bet there’s still people out there that don’t know the Wii U exists
@@Hckytman that’s sadly true
Fr, it was constantly advertised like every 2 fkin minutes on the kid's tv channel where i live
@@rotte5537 It convinced my parents to buy one lol
This video is about the built-in sensor bar in the gamepad. I don't remember them ever selling this feature in any of the 4 commercials they made for this thing.
Bruh I always stayed close to my console to use the sensor bar when my parents use the tv😭😭😂 seriously this is a life changer
I thought that was one of the main gimmicks of the Wii u
This is how I played Mario Galaxy under my bed
Had some good memories playing Metroid Prime Trilogy on the game pad while the TV was in use... good times
Always did this when my dad wanted to watch some sport, this probably explains why were so close
I used to do that as a kid because I had that crappy battery powered sensor for the Wii U, so I used my Wii U pad as a sensor
This was how I played the Wii U a TON when I was younger during sports games and other long periods where my parents were using the TV. Good memories.
That’s crazy! I’ve had a Wii U since 2013 and I never knew I could do this!
@Wii ROCKS. bro really went "VIVA👽"
Same but I also didn't use the Wii version very often since I played the Wii at my friends very frequently anyway
Me when my parents wanted to watch tv
True lmao
What’s funnier is that if you have two Wii’s or Wii u’s, you don’t need to plug in a sensor bar to both. The port for it is only there to power the bar, so you can plug it into a different Wii and it’ll still work on another Wii or Wii u
If the Wii U had GameCube backwards compatibility, I would be all over that, but nice to know I always have a miniature sencor I don't have to worry about
How did you not notice this? Like it’s one of two options. I just feel like it’s hard to miss
"Theres no way this is true"
"But how did I not know this?"
my wiiu is 10 years old and i discovered it just now
@@Jonqen HAHAHA I got the reference 🥴🤣
@@PieterPie2405 Haha fellow 1980s gamer enjoyer!
@@Jonqen wait... OOOOO MMMYYYY GGGOOOOODDDDD!!!!!!
Finally.
Something I didn’t know on CZcams Shorts.
I thought for one minute that was Joey from DK oldies because you look like him and then I was like hold on that’s not him
I like that so many people on CZcams are looking back fondly on the Wii U
maybe it flopped, but cmon, the wii u is a lot cooler than the switch in my opinion
On god
i thought everybody would know this since it would say so on the tablet itself
I remember when they updated this feature. Initially you had no choice between GamePad-only and TV. You had to use the sensor bar until the firmware update was applied.
I used this feature back then, to secretly play Super Mario Galaxy under the bedsheets
Good times man!
Even better to secretly play cause of the volume control on the gamepad
I only knew this because my brother did this when I was using our living room tv lol
Your content is getting better! Keep on the great work up. But the sad thing is I never had a Wii U
Buy one not many other people did
Best console I used fr
@@Nittle69420 My Cousin had one so he just handed it to me as he had no use for it
mee too lol
The best thing about it, Wii games not only play fantastically, they also look absolutely gorgeous on the Wii U GamePad.
The WiiU was the ultimate weapon to playing games at night. If you heard your parents coming to your room you just put in sleep mode from the gamepad and once they leave just turn it back on and continue
Y’all just found this out?!?
I'm more curious about those grouping/folder icons!
the wii u was amazing
"I wish I had read the Wii U's manual" is a more accurate title.
who tf reads manuals??
Ah yes, that feature that you *CLEARLY* never saw because it was never pointed out to you in *ANY* way.
wait is this real my gamepad is broken 😭
If im right some cameras dont show ir leds properly
I never knew there was a sensor bar on top of that tablet....
I wish I still had that Wii U
I used to play MKWII with headphones at my desk at night. Totally loved my Wii U!
That's sick, I wish I knew this when I had mine. The sensor bar seems so much more handy now.
I swear Nintendo never really advertised it! I found out after the Switch was already out and I retired my Wii U 😢
I heard the "sensor bar" actually is the thing sending the light, not the remote
Yup, just two little lights. The remote has an IR camera, and it (probably) just maps where it sees the lights with X and Y coords and sends it to the console to math out where the TV would be in relation to that. Deceptively simple, and fricken genius :D
having the built in sensor bar is SO helpful. i was devastated i couldnt play wii games anymore because i lost by sensor bar but when i learned the gamepad had a censor bar i was ecstatic! if you go straight to the wii menu when you boot up the console (pressing + holding "B") you go straight to it and dont have to point your remote at the tv. thank you nintendo, for letting me play mario party 8 :)
Found this out a while back, I wanna say six to eight years ago. I was stuck at my Grandpa's house for a week and REALLY wanted to play Smash Brawl, but he didn't have a working TV at the time. Very cool surprise.
Another reason to buy a Wii U
To buy it ? And okay games designed for party play and large displays and play it on a 5 inch screen with limited range of motion as compared to a real tv ?? Like this is not a reason to buy this shit at all 😂
This will be super helpful to the 13 people who bought a Wii u
Six! There were only 6 Wii U owners!
14 I bought one aswell
i genuinely gotta thank you for this discovery, i never knew the rays were seeable with the camera. i needed this because ive seen that my sensor bar isnt working. 🙏 thank you
This help me a lot back then when other people had the TV
I'm honestly really shocked I didn't find out about this before. I remember I used to use that mode but when I needed to use the sensor bar I would just point at the actual sensor bar in a completely different direction. This would have come in handy had I known about it.
wait.... what?????? this is insane dude i didnt even know this
That’s really sad. And also there is also a reason they put instructions.
Okay so I have this strange story of how I kinda noticed I could do the whole turn off the TV on a school night but I kept the tablet thing and started to play like a pokemon game for the wii I can't exactly remember what it was called but piplup is a main character. Anywho I stayed up till 1 am grinding that Flippin game and pretty much was sluggish all day the next day. Also thanks for stopping by to read this tale
I knew about it years ago, but i forgot about it until now.
The Wii U is like the ancestor of the Switch. It might not at detachable joy-cons, but it was a hybrid
With the wii remote, you can also press plus in the screen where you choose where to display wii, to display gamepad only
I think I see who's been stealing Poofesure of his Toad Wii Remotes with Wii motion plus inside. He's holding them hostage!!
…that was obvious info tho, like you really can’t miss that if you put in a Wii disc. I used that feature all the time when I was 10.
I remember when I was little I played skyward sword on this when my parents were using the tv… it was a very unique experience
I had to rewatch this because I was freaking out on why Hank Green was reviewing a wii u
Hahaha I will take this as my biggest compliment yet 😂
And because of the features you just talk about, the Wii U is awesome to take on a plane and play games. I can play anything from NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, N64, Wii and Wii U games, as long as the plane has a 110V plug available you will have hundreds of games available to play on those long flights.
Enjoy, RobS
How on earth did you not know this after 13 years
The fact that the WII U was able to do this much, and it was still hated mind blows me.
I use to do this. When I was waiting to get Wii U hooked up to my TV, I would play wii games just like this.
I wish someday someone can make the Gamepad work in vWii Mode with Homebrew or something.
The Wii u was way ahead of its time i still want one
Such a criminally underrated system
It's technically IR LEDs in the gamepad as the Wii Remote is what actually contains the IR camera. This means any IR source can be used as a sensor bar, even flames from a candle. The name is most likely a pun with "Censor bar" to fit the TV theming of the Wii.
I used this to play skylanders all the time when I was younger. Actually saved me from having to ask constantly, because I was allowed if I could find a way to play without the TV
This feels like a early version of the switch
You know it's funny, I used to play Wii games on the Gamepad all the time, but I never knew it had it's own sensor lmao, I just always played in the living room and aimed at the TV! Funny how that turned out lol
Wii games also look quite nice while playing on the gamepad because it's its native resolution!
I used to do this all the time when I didn’t have a tv lol
That’s why the week is one of the greatest Nintendo cartoons of all time
I've made use of this before when I was too lazy to set up my sensor bar. Just set the gamepad in front of the TV and used that instead. Worked really well
You can get a backpack, and get a Milwaukee battery with an AC adapter and connect the console to the battery inside the backpack and boom portable Wii.
Just Dance 4 on Wii U did a similar thing where you can use the Wii U Gamepad to play and use it as a sensor bar
I love the donkey Kong country tropical freeze
Used to play games whenever I was grounded like this.
I have not play the Wii in like 5 or 4 years but i remember what i used to play it 😢
I used to do this all the time when my parents wanted to watch TV but I wanted to play Wii games.
Me and my sister tried to play Lego Star Wars like this when my parents were using the TV and now I get how very low quality things cause nostalgia
I always used this to play Prime Trilogy back in the day. It was awesome
You can also press + of the Wiimote on that screen for game pad only
When I went to my grandparents house we had to use the pad as the sensor bar because we couldn’t find it
Its becoming ny favourite console. Loading it up with GCN and Wii U games.
That’s why I loved the Wii U
I barely had a TV available so I can just plug the console to any outlet and technically play portably.
Yeah, it’s such a hassle that you have to be near an outlet to play “portably” but it was the best feeling to have that you don’t need a TV at all to play the Wii U AND the Wii
Oddly enough, this is one of the first things I discovered when starting a wii game on my friends wiiu
I never understood why you would want it to show on the gamepad, i had no idea that was a sensor bar. That's actually really awesome
The gimmick of using it on the gamepad is if someone else wants to use the tv to watch something
Played using both TV / GamePad. Sound reverberated when I had GamePad volume and TV volume playing at the same time