This post is the type of posts I write for myself so I can find it again easily the next time I set up a Mac computer from scratch. Today was one of these days and I figured I'd take the time to write it so I can easily refer to it later, and I know it'll be useful for other folks too.

As the title implies, this will be a short "tutorial" explaining how to set up the (excellent) Wiimote pointer cursors by PrimmR on current macOS (26 as of writing this).

For this, you will need:

• Mousecape-swiftUI (the original Mousecape hasn't been updated in years and stopped working multiple macOS versions ago, unfortunately).
• The Wii Pointer Cursors for Mac (ported by me :) )
  Here's a mirrored link in case this one ever goes down.
  And here's a variant with the "link" cursor tweaked.

1. Install Mousecape-swiftUI

This one is easy enough:

• Grab the latest releases from the releases page, swiftUI_v1.1.4 as I'm writing this.
• Extract the .zip file, move the application into your /Applications folder.

Because the app isn't notarized/signed, macOS will tell you the app can't be run, you will want to run Terminal.app¹ and enter the following command which will remove the "quarantine bit" from the application²:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Mousecape.app

Then launch Mousecape and you should see a window like this one:

2. Install the Wii Pointer Cursors

Download the Wii Pointer Cursors for Mac and extract the .7z file.

Now, this one is a bit counter-intuitive because of (as I'm writing this) a bug with the work of Mousecape we're using. Instead of using the Import cape button or dropping the gay.primm.wii.player*.cape file of your choosing, you will want to go to Mousecape's settings page, then go to Advanced and click Show in Finder under the Cape Folder section:

And you will want to drop your .cape file(s) in this folder instead.

3. Apply them

Relaunch Mousecape, select which variant of the cursors you want on the left sidebar and click the blue ✅ button at the top right and, voilà!

Hope this little post was useful to you!