Nintendo Wii Remote Not Working? Try This Simple Fix

The Nintendo Wii is quickly approaching its 20th birthday and broken Wii Remotes are becoming much more common. Let's teardown this Wii Remote, check out this typical cause for malfunction, and see if we can repair it!

Music (In Order of Appearance)
Egg Planet - Super Mario Galaxy OST (Wii)
Bowling - Wii Sports OST (Wii)
Outro Music: Retro Game Attic Outro Theme

Timestamps:
Tools/Items Used: 00:55
Wii Remote Not Working: 01:30
Teardown: 02:39
Cleaning Contacts & Motherboard: 04:07
Cleaning Buttons and Remote Shell: 04:45
Reassembly: 05:19
Wii Remote Working Again: 05:39
 
 Sources:

Wii Sports Gameplay - @AwesomeGamerland
 
Date filmed: 7/6/2023
 
#retrogaming #nintendo #wii

[chefuwu]

good instructions, and cool to see that you actually fixed it :)

[superflyderek]

Great video! Very impressed with the quality! I've been repairing a lot of broken remotes lately and found they all have a similar pattern of losing the sensitivity in the buttons. I seem to have to press extra hard to get the buttons to register correctly and was wondering if you have the same issue or know a fix?

[Uwannawatch]

Great video. Your explanation of the process was easy to follow and thank you for showing the different tools and alternatives that could be used.

[bellysbluetube]

Nice explaination. I've done this a few thousand times, and believe it or not can count on just one hand how many times the tabs haven't snapped.

[bilalmeziane]

thanks for the video, i will try to clean the remote
my issue is that when playing some games the hud doesnt show, in the house of dead 2, only player 2 doesnt have hud, and it shows perfectly in system menu