Its not obvious from the product description (or instructions), but this guitar will work with the WII system both with and without the WII remote attached.
Without the Wii-mote attached, you must plug in the included usb reciever into your WII system, find and press the tiny button on the usb reciever until the led for WII lights up, then flip the switch on the guitar to one of the WII modes. The nice thing about this mode is you don't need another Wii-mote. The one drawback I found was that you lose the ability to trigger the "motion activated" game controls found in some of the games.
With the Wii-mote attached, you DO NOT plug in the usb reciever, or even need to put batteries into the guitar. It functions just as any other passive Wii guitar body. One problem you will find with inserting the Wii-mote is that somewhere down the line someone in manufacturing was able to cut costs by getting dongle-plugs with the little plastic nub that the strap can go through. But the slot for the Wii-mote was obvously not designed to accomodate the plastic nub. It makes the Wii-mote stick up an eight of an inch too high, where the back cover plate rubs against the buttons making them get stuck down, or pressed randomly. Which makes game playing impossible. Fortunately, snapping off the plastic nub with a pair of pliers is a quick simple solution that anyone should be able to apply. This guitar now works just as well as my origial Band Hero version.
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