Wii U Local multiplayer help?

[Elsewhere]

...you just need wii controllers with motion plus and a nunchuck.

The nunchuk is KEY. I made an account to post this.

Hook a nunchuk to your Wiimote and suddenly it all works out. The "+" WILL NOT work without a nunchuk hooked up. Once you do, it works swimmingly with the aforementioned method by Malch.

 

[Freq1c]

Here is how I did it:

- I create a new wii U local profile (following this article: Knowledge Article)
- I started Terraria on this new local profile and I created a character
- Quit Terraria, switch back to my first Wii U profile and started Terraria on this profile. I open the world, then when I press '+' on the additional controller the second profile is displayed on screen! I just have to select it and I can play any character from that user profile.

It's strange because it seems to be exactly what you did ... Just take care that Wii U user profiles are not only different Mii.
You need to see something like this when starting the console: http://thewiiu.com/uploads/monthly_11_2012/post-1466-0-93442000-1352288915_thumb.png
And when you are on the Wii U home page (2 characters at center of screen) : http://www.christianharries.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wii-u-4.jpg

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I just created this forum account to thank you. I spent almost an hour trying to play local multiplayer with my girlfriend. Not a lot of help at first on the Internet (nor in the game Help section), then I found out this post.

I didn't even know that it was possible to create different user profiles on the Wii U.

Now it works perfectly fine!

But you HAVE TO HAVE the nunchuk connected!!!