Random: You Can Use Your Switch Joy-Cons As A Replacement Wii Sensor Bar

@Munchlax yeah, with almost anything that outputs IR.

You can achieve a similar result by using a pair of sandals. 🩴 🩴

Why do the joycons have IR in the first place?

@nesrocks : To eat pretend hot dogs in 1-2 Switch (only the greatest game of all time).

@nesrocks The right Joycon has an IR camera for detecting things. The only game I know that actually used it was 1, 2, Switch where it could like detect rock. paper, scissors. or somethign like that - I never had it. Some of the Labo applications use it too (like it uses the camera to detect movement in the build). There doesn't seem to be much interest in the use beyond that though.

@ibookboyuk Game Cube could be easier to work on Switch, but how Switch will adapt the two screen gameplay of some 3DS games on Switch

The NSO Wii virtual console confirmed!

Would like to see @foreverentertainment use something like this on HOTD as it would improve game play dramatically!

The Labo toy-con piano contains its own version of the wii sensor bar.
https://twitter.com/malcolmparsons/status/990653142458085376

@BrianJL In addition to 1, 2, Switch at least Dr Kawashima's Brain Training, Labo games and Game Builder Garage support it. I think there was also some Resident Evil game (RE4 maybe?) that used it for reloading.

I still remember when everyone went crazy when they figured out that you could use candles as a sensorbar replacement

@nesrocks In Resident Evil Revelations you can put the JoyCon to your thigh in order to reload.

It's a little hard to come up with uses for it, and it ups the JoyCon battery drain a bit when you do so most devs forgo this sensor.

I just want a USB light bar peripheral so we can use light guns again 😩
Can go right into the dock’s USB connectors. I’d love that for light gun games, house of the dead remake specifically.

@Giancarlothomaz

RE: Dual Screen of 3DS games. I thought about that. I was thinking that Nintendo could make a TATE adapter for the Nintendo Switch. It would hold the Switch in TATE mode and then you attach the Joncons on each side of that. Then the bottom half of the Switch screen (in vertical mode) becomes the touch screen of the 3DS. And the top half is the top display of the 3DS. If they did this, they could bring DS and 3DS games to Switch.

As for the Wii Sensor Bar . . . a simple solution is to get a Wireless Wii Sensor bar. Like this . . .

https://www.amazon.com/Aokin-Wireless-Infrared-Nintendo-Replacement/dp/B08F3SPPW5/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Wireless+Wii+Bar&qid=1675176368&sr=8-3

The wire on the OEM Wii Sensor Bar only provides power. No data.

So the wireless bar uses AAA batteries.

I got one of these and it works great. The big downside is that you need to remember to turn it off when you're done gaming. If not, you got dead batteries the next time you want to play.

As far as Wii goes I think they'll just keep porting stuff and charging full price. Probably more money that way. Same with 3ds to get around having to figure out the dual screen functionality.

@NintendoDad A TATE adaptor for Switch does exist, but it's not officially by Nintendo. Fangamer's Flip Grip works well for what it is; I've used it before to play Downwell. I can't use it any longer because they aren't compatible with OLEDs, but if you have an original Switch they're pretty good!

I still have the Nyko Wireless Sensor Bar, which is battery operated and works better than the wired Wii one, longer range, and can sit in a drawer until I need it...this is amusing though if you have two right joy-cons handy.

@MH4

RE: Fangamer's Flip Grip

+1

Ok. You mentioning it just got me wanting it again. LOL.

Yes. I remember that when it came out. That is what got me thinking about DS / 3DS games on Switch. LOL.

I could totally see myself using that for Galaga in Namco Museum Arcade Pac in hand-held mode.

I just tested the settings to get a bigger screen. Turn 90 degrees. Turn background off. Zoom 1.29 times.

Because it is in no way a "Sensor Bar"... it is two LED lights.

I always wondered with stuff like this. How does it work on Wii without plugging into the sensor bar port?

@SlashFuture Apparently the Wii remote is doing all the work, while all the Wii sensor bar has to do is stand there and look pretty, but any pair of infrared lights will do the job just as well. And the right Joycon just so happens to have those pretty little lights, so...

I guess so; I imagine the IR lights are turned off by default unless a game specifically calls for their use.

@Rambler Seems excessive. I just get Wario and Waluigi to stand either side of my TV and bend over, then I set alight to their farts.

@BrianJL they actually got pretty creative with labo. if i remember correctly there would be different patterns that the joycon would sense from the reflective stickers. the vr set also used it for detecting where the joycon was relative to the switch. Its pretty damn creative.

Most impractical sensor bar replacement yet. ^^

But still fun!

@BrianJL I imported TABE-O-JA from Japan last year and it comes with a right joy-con case that holds an nfc sauce bottle but also you point the IR at a recipe/monster card to add it in game.

@jamspaper Neat! I always wish the more obscure features would get more love.