Geek Dad recently had a problem with his newly-bought Wii remote. All the buttons worked fine but the motion detection was off. Here's the crazy-ass solution that came straight from Nintendo.

Friendly Nintendo Help Desk Lady: "Okay - I want you to take the remote, button side down and smack it into the palm of your hand two or three times."
Russ: "You've got to be kidding"
Friendly Nintendo Help Desk Lady: "No sir, do it hard enough that I can hear it across the phone line but not hard enough to damage the remote"
Russ: "You're sure?"
Friendly Nintendo Help Desk Lady: "Yes, sir."

So, button-side down, the funky Wii remote got smacked in the palm of my hand three times....

...and the thing worked!

Read the whole article over at Geek Dad. It's Classic

Posted in: on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at at 1:26 AM