Motion aiming

Motion aiming uses your controller's built-in gyroscope to aim: small tilts of the pad become fine cursor movement. You can run it always-on or hold a button to activate it, and it layers over the right stick as correction rather than replacing it.

How motion aiming works

Gyro reads the physical rotation of your controller and maps it to aim. It is designed to work alongside the right stick, not in place of it: the stick handles large turns while gyro adds the small, precise adjustments on top.

For emulated output, OmniControl includes a DSU motion server that feeds gyro data to emulators that read it, and the Dolphin bridge passes motion through to a Wii Remote or GameCube controller.

Set up motion aiming

Activation modes

Always-on

Gyro is active the whole time you play. Aim tracks how you move and hold the controller, so you can make constant micro-adjustments without pressing anything. This suits players who keep the pad level and want gyro doing the fine work at all times.

Hold-to-activate

Bind a button, and gyro only aims while you hold it. Releasing the button lets you reposition or rest the controller without the aim drifting. This keeps a steady neutral and turns motion on only when you need to correct a shot.

Sensitivity as fine correction

Motion sensitivity stacks on top of your stick settings. It does not override the stick - the right stick still does the base aiming with its own response curve, deadzone, and per-stick sensitivity, and gyro adds a correction layer over that.

• Raise motion sensitivity for faster gyro turns.
• Lower it for slow, precise micro-adjustments.

Because the two combine, tune your stick response first, then dial in gyro on top. See Sticks & triggers for stick curves, deadzone, and sensitivity.

Motion settings are saved with each profile, so gyro mode and sensitivity load automatically when a game takes focus. See Profiles & Game Center for how profiles switch per game.