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Nintendo Wii
Wii Number | 1366-9182-1785-3926 |
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Personality
Design
Audio
Custom Soundtracks
Some games support custom soundtracks:
Music files have to be .MP3. They can be saved anywhere on the SD Card. You can't do nice things like have certain folders for certain games, it just finds all the music files. You select one song at a time, or tell it to pick one at random.
You can also hack-in your own music to other games:
Periphera
Input
Other Controllers
Though the Wii has two USB ports on the back, games typically don't support controllers that use that interface, and if they do, they're controllers specifically designed to work with that game. USB controller support is a per-game thing, in other words.
An exception is using Nintendont to play Gamecube games, which will handle communication with USB HID interfaces, so you can, for example, use a joystick with SNK v. Capcom 2.
You can of course use controllers from other consoles via adapters, though depending on what you want to use this can get a bit convoluted. At least they're not expensive. This video runs through pretty much everything: PS4, Joy-Con, N64, Xbox & more Controllers all working on Nintendo Wii.
See Also
Wiimote
Batteries
When I got my Wii I spent a bit of time agonising over rechargeable battery packs. There are a bunch available, but not much concrete info on them. Took me a while to realise that the clear best option is to just buy good quality rechargeable AAs, namely Eneloops. You can get little starter kits with a charger and a quantity of AAA and AA cells š
PC Controller
There are lots of cool projects based round using it as an interface with a PC. Seems pretty straight-forward to get it to work.
Wii Balance Board
Highlights / curiosities from that list (now with notes~):
Title | Have? | Format | Impression (pre) | Notes (post) |
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Copter Crisis | - | WiiWare | fast | |
Doctor Fizzwizzle's Animal Rescue | - | Disc | Breakanoids | |
Equilibrio | - | WiiWare | 2-D Rollers | |
The G1 Jockey games | - | Disc | curious how well they work without that arcade cab though. | |
The Garfield Show: Threat of the Space Lasagna | - | Disc | Gotta garf | |
Go Vacation | - | Disc | is pretty cool, just haven't tried it with the board | |
Horizon Riders | ā | WiiWare | Railshooter | Baaaaaad |
Imagine Fashion Party | ā | Disc | MULTIPLAYER FASHION | |
The Incredible Maze | - | WiiWare | Rollers | |
Intervilles | - | Disc | Minigames, like it's-a-knockout or something | |
Marble Saga: Kororinpa | ā | Disc | Has 30 separate courses for balance board users. | Good |
ć¤ć±ććØććØć« (Night of Sacrifice) | - | Disc | horror game by Marvellous | |
Overturn | ā | WiiWare | Virtual-On-like | |
ćŖć©ććÆć ćæććŖć§ććććēę“» (Rilakkuma Everybody's Easy Life[?]) | ā | Disc | cute | |
Rock Nā Roll Climber | ā | WiiWare | rad complex rock climbing | |
Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage | ā | Disc | ||
Shaun White Skateboarding | ā | Disc | ||
Skate City Heroes | ā | Disc | ||
Skate It | ā | Disc | ||
Ski and Shoot | ā | Disc | Skiing and shooting | |
Sleepover Party | ā | Disc | Sleeping and partying | |
Snowboard Riot | ā | WiiWare | ||
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”ę±ŗå®ēļ½ćæććŖć§ęę¦ļ¼ä½ęć¢ćć©ćÆć·ć§ć³ļ½ (Tokyo Friend Park II Ketteiban: Minna de Chousen! Taikan Attraction) | ā | Disc | minigames | |
Vacation Isle: Beach Party | - | Disc | like Go Vacation | |
Vertigo | - | Disc | Rollers | |
Walk It Out / Step To The Beat | ā | WiiWare | walking game where you build a town | Really thought there'd be more control over how you design the town :( |
Water Sports | ā | Disc | ||
We Ski & Snowboard | ā | Disc | Mii avatar skiing | |
Wii Music | ā | Disc | ||
Winter Blast: Snow & Ice Games | ā | Disc | ||
Winter Sports 2012: Feel the Spirit | - | Disc | It has curling and snow motorbike racing | |
World Party Games | - | Disc |
Using with PCs
Just dumping links for now.
Modding
Wiis are very easy to mod, which lets you do stuff like re-enable online services and play, and run games from external drives and the SD card.
Online
RiiConnect24
RiiConnect is a way to use the online functions of the Wii even though those services are now shut-down :)
It's a simple script you run that generates some files, that you then copy onto your SD card, and install via the Homebrew Channel/
I also had to install the dependencies mono
and xdelta3
to get it to run.
Animal Crossing
It works for games too! There's a general patch that works for most stuff, but some particular games have their own patch, which does some extra stuff like change text in the game data.
See Also
Homebrew
Dumping some links on home-brewing Wii stuff.
Tools
Wit
You can easily convert an ISO to a WBFS file with the command-line tool Wit (or using a GUI frontend for it) using the copy command. Simply wit copy [filename].iso [filename].wbfs
will do the job quickly!