Getting Oswald to zap power boxes in co-op mode is a problem people write about since the very beginning of the game, in the Castle.
So, in co-op mode, when Oswald is inside there, by the power box, he will not give it the correct zap to automatically open the red metal grate.
Keep the cursor pointed at the power box.
For most boxes, the trick is to NOT "press and release" the B button. Only give the B Button the very slightest, quickest tweek with the side of your finger, that makes Oswald let out a big ball of energy. If you hold the B button for a second, he lets out a stream, which does not work.
Keep moving Oswald around, closer, farther, in front of the power box, and there may be a sweet spot that the mean-spirited developer allows.
I have done it, but it took me a long time, too.
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I just looked at my other post, and I describe something like the series of movements that you have to do in Avatar. First the screen says to do one thing, then another, then another.
"Playing single player mode, when I got outside the red grate, Oswald became frensied and was soon inside.
I couldn't get him to automatically activate the power plate, so I activated the two-player mode. Of course, it took me a lot of time to have Oswald do the simple electric shock, because the game wanted me to
press the electric button, then a second button,
then rotate/shake the remote,
then the second button again,
then shake.
And, they needed to be done precisely -- shaking and pointing at the same time."
That sounds like I started with Oswald with a fully charged remote, and had him HOLD DOWN the B button.
I don't remember. Sorry.
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When you get in Game Mode, you may have to adjust your TV brightness, so you can see the symbols that are coming up -- like to press A and shake.
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EDIT: Clarification: In Avatar, you were in the middle of aerial combat, and there was a reason for various activities with the Wii Remote. You could swing the remote down to have the "bird" poke a hole in the enemy helicopter windshield. It was out of kindness that the developers gave us cues on the screen.
But, it is solely out of meanness that the EM2 developers would make us do these harshly-timed activities to get Oswald to zap that power box -- with Mickey's Paint Brush buttons! (I did not buy them, but your right hand holds Mickey's Paint Brush, and your left hand holds Oswald's Controller.)
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