How To Set Up Your Nintendo Wii With Pictures

If you are using the vertical stand, first make sure that the stand is assembled by taking the vertical stand and the round piece of plastic and sliding them together until they click.

You can also place the sensor bar on top of your TV.

The Wii requires Wii-specific cables in order to connect to your TV; standard A/V cables will not work. If you’re trying to connect your Wii’s A/V cables to a computer monitor, you’ll have to buy an adapter for your monitor.

If your Wii remote has a rubber jacket, you will need to remove it before you can access the battery cover.

If the lights don’t come on at all, try inserting new batteries.

You can double-check your Wii’s input number on your TV by looking for a number near the yellow, white, and red plugs on the back or side of your TV.

If you don’t see or hear anything, ensure that your TV is set to the correct input, and that your A/V cable is connected correctly. Cycling through the available inputs will eventually cause the Wii’s setup screen to display.

Open the SD card slot on the front of your Wii console. Remove the battery cover on the Wii remote. Press the Sync button below the battery compartment. Wait for the lights at the bottom of the Wii remote to start blinking. Press the red Sync button in the Wii’s SD card slot.

If your Wii has been set up before, your Wii may open to the home screen. If so, skip to the next part.

Keep in mind that the clock here is in military time, meaning that you add 12 to the time in PM from noon through midnight (e. g. , 12:00 PM would be “1200”, but 3:00 PM would be “1500”).

Depending on your Wii, a video displaying how to use your Wii may begin playing.

Skip this step if you don’t want to reset the position you set during the Wii setup.

If you have an Ethernet USB adapter that you bought from Nintendo, you can plug it into the back of your console and then plug an Ethernet cable from your router into the adapter.

If the Wii has never been connected to the internet, all of the settings will say “None” next to the Connection number.

If you’re using Ethernet, select Wired and then select OK to connect to the Internet.

If the connection is public, selecting the network will prompt your Wii to connect to it automatically.

Do not update your system if it is modded, or it will be bricked and you will lose access to your Homebrew channel.

You can access the shop from the Wii Channels screen.

Make sure that you insert the disc the correct direction, with the label facing up. You can also download games from the Wii store and they will show up as channels in your Channel menu.

You’ll insert the GameCube game like you would a regular Wii game. Although the discs are smaller, they can be inserted into any part of the disc loader.