Click the "Begin Discovery" menu item, then grab your Wiimote and hold the red pairing button near the Wiimote's batteries WJoy will quickly discover and pair your Wiimote! WJoy displays in the menu bar and allows you to open or close Wiimote discoverability. The WJoy utility may not be needed to play games with Dolphin but it's a very useful app for using a Wiimote for any purpose on Mac. Unfortunately the current version of the original repository has an immediately disconnecting defect so use this forked version which contains fixes so your Wiimote can stay connected.
It took a few hours of experimentation but I finally figured out how to play Wii games on my Mac.
After a bit of research I've found that Dolphin, the emulator I found to play Gamecube games, can also emulate Wii games. Of course the Wii never got many quality games but the console was worth the price alone for all the fun we had with Wii Sports.Ī decade later my Wii doesn't work very well the discs are scratched and the Wii usually spits out any disk I put into it, which is a shame because my four year old is just getting into gaming. For months my roommates and I would drink beer, talk trash, and play Wii Sports bowling for hours on end. I was one of those guys that bought the Wii off of eBay shortly after its release at a scalper's ransom.