Playing Wii sat down?

Ol!ver

Ol!ver

Ol!ver

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I've managed to get a Wii ordered, but something's just hit me. The wii is going in the bedroom, where the TV is on the wall at the bottom of the bed. This means I can't stand and play. Now I assume this might be a problem with Wii Sports especially. Anyone managed to play sat down?

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Playing sat down is fine. I find I'm better at wii-tennis when I stand up, but it's perfectly playable sat down.

I've never tried wii-bowling sitting down though a friend of mine managed to play it using an over-arm technique (which looked completely ridiculous for bowling), which he did sitting down.

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It's no problem really, since nearly all actions in the game can be narrowed down to smaller, quick movements of the remote to execute them. So you don't need a full swing of the arm for tennis when you can just flick your wrist sideways, etc.

I think I've managed to play all the Sports game sitting down at some point (when I've been too knackered from work to bother standing), so you should be ok. Bowling and golf might be a problem though, because they both require underarm swings to pull off, which could mean your bed gets in the way. The trick is though, as a lot of people don't always seem to notice, you don't actually have to swing the remote towards the screen for those games. So you can sit slightly sideways and swing off the side of where you sit, for instance, and it'll work fine.

EDIT: I have noticed changing between sitting and standing really throws off your timing in tennis for me, but I guess that won't be a problem if you're always in one position.
 
Cheers for the replies. I'm sat here looking at the layout and I might be ok actually. We should be able to both stand either side of the bed and get a good angle on the TV, I'm just a little worried about the odd angle we'll be to the sensor. Does that actaully matter?
 
Ol!ver said:
Cheers for the replies. I'm sat here looking at the layout and I might be ok actually. We should be able to both stand either side of the bed and get a good angle on the TV, I'm just a little worried about the odd angle we'll be to the sensor. Does that actaully matter?
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As long as your not too far off to one side, then it should be ok.
 
Most other games are fine though, as has been mentioned. It's clearly the most natural way to play games like Carbon and CoD3. The only game I play standing is Wii Sports, which I have also played sitting.
 
Depends entirely on the game, because some parts of the remote use the bar, and others don't.

Sports doesn't use the bar at all I believe, as it's all based on swings and tilts and such, and those are just the accelerometers and stuff already in the remotes. Red Steel needs it pointed at the screen/sensor at all times because it uses the bar to calculate where you're aiming at. Zelda doesn't really need it unless you're aiming the bow, and WarioWare uses the bar for some games, and not for others.

EDIT: And, you can just turn the sensor bar towards where you stand/sit if it's off to one side.
 
Weebull said:
Depends entirely on the game, because some parts of the remote use the bar, and others don't.

Sports doesn't use the bar at all I believe, as it's all based on swings and tilts and such, and those are just the accelerometers and stuff already in the remotes. Red Steel needs it pointed at the screen/sensor at all times because it uses the bar to calculate where you're aiming at. Zelda doesn't really need it unless you're aiming the bow, and WarioWare uses the bar for some games, and not for others.
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Wii Sports uses it for menu selection, although I think you can use the D-pad to navigate.
 
Weebull said:
Sports doesn't use the bar at all I believe, as it's all based on swings and tilts and such, and those are just the accelerometers and stuff already in the remotes..
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But surely it needs the bar pick up anything the remote is doing? Otherwise how does the game know what position the remote is etc?
 
Nismo said:
But surely it needs the bar pick up anything the remote is doing? Otherwise how does the game know what position the remote is etc?
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But none of the Sports game need to actually know the position of the remote in space, that's the point. All they need to know is how fast you're swinging it, any spin you're adding to it, and (in the case of boxing) whether you're tilting it. All of which are worked out using the stuff already inside the remote.

The sensor bar is only used for the Wii remote to triangulate its position in space in relation to the bar/TV. So you need it only when pointing directly at the screen, or for some of the movement games in WarioWare, which are based on more delicate moves than the accelerometers would pick up.

EDIT: Yeah, I guess I should have mentioned how it all works. The sensor bar doesn't recieve any data, it's just there to help the Wii remote work out its position. That's why you can wander off into another room and still control menus and suchlike, like any other wireless controller.
 
Nismo said:
But surely it needs the bar pick up anything the remote is doing? Otherwise how does the game know what position the remote is etc?
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All the bar consists of is two sets of infrared LEDs which the remote sees and is then able to triangulate it's position.

All data from the remote, such as the accelerometers, buttons, and triangulation data from where it sees the sensor bar, is sent back to the Wii by bluetooth.
 
Wrathamon said:
All the bar consists of is two sets of infrared LEDs which the remote sees and is then able to triangulate it's position.

All data from the remote, such as the accelerometers, buttons, and triangulation data from where it sees the sensor bar, is sent back to the Wii by bluetooth.
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Never realised that. So the only reson the bar is connected to the Wii is for power?
 
Ol!ver said:
Never realised that. So the only reson the bar is connected to the Wii is for power?
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Seems so, that will be why I have seen reports of people saying they can use two lit candles to make it work :p
 
Ol!ver said:
Never realised that. So the only reson the bar is connected to the Wii is for power?
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If that was the case then a wii can be 'powered' by 2 candles bud.

Oops, your point/question was a bit spurious and thought you meant the sensor bar powers the pointer..... my bad. the wii powers the LEDs

The infrared part of the wiimote picks up the 2 light sources from the 'sensor bar' and the angle of the 2 dictates where the wiimote is in space/direction it's pointing. Good old bluetooth reports this back to the console and voilá... pointer on screen.

People that had their crimbo trees with lights next to TV and wii over the festive season thought their sherry was packing an extra punch this year... :p

Sean :)
 
pff get that room cleared out for a big tennis tourney and get wii play for the extra remote
oh and watch ** lights, i smashed the living room light on boxing day when playing tennis (still hit the ball tho)
 
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