PonyFlare

I just got a Wii U, and a few extras, including some Wii games and a Wii Remote + (Peach edition!)

So I was trying to play a Wii game (Super Mario Galaxy) and after launching the game, pressing START and waiting for the warning to go away, I get a blue screen with the following:

Communications with [Wii Remote] have been
interrupted. Press [A] without touching
the Control Stick on [the nunchuck].

Pressing A does nothing.

Pressing Home brings up the HOME Menu with a few options, such as returning to the wii menu, resetting, or just closing the menu - all of which work perfectly fine with the remote.

How to make the remote actually work with the game?!?

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EDIT:

Never mind. Figured out that it was because I had first synced a Wii U controller, and the Wii remote got bumped to player 2 and the game wouldn't run without the remote set as player 1.

So I figured out how to change the order and now all is good!