Wii Gaming

xiphrex · 14 Jul 2024 at 18:09

My kids love playing the Wii games, especially the ones with motion controls like Wii Sports!

Luckily they dont really care about how bad it looks on modern large 4K screens!

JoeBoi · 15 Jul 2024 at 13:55

almoststew1990 said:
What are your thoughts on the Wii becoming a popular retro console like the PS2, Gamecube, GBA and the DS? I dug mine out of the loft, that I bought in 2014 along with Mario Galaxy (which I never played much - it was mostly used for Mario Party I think it is called when my wife had her friends round).

I've seen the big games are relatively cheap compared to DS and Gamecube, with Zelda Twilight Princess being £8 and Skyward Sword being £12. Mario Galaxy £12.

I never really played on the Wii so I'm going to try Mario Galaxy and maybe pick up a Zelda and see how they hold up. I suspect the motion controls will be the main reason I give up (and also the main reason it isn't becoming a desirable retro console beyond gamecube games over 480p component) but we'll see.

Any game recommendations other than Mario Galaxy and 'a Zelda'?

Personally, I think the Wii and Wii U, should be in most retro gamers collections. They can be had for such a cheap price, nice cheap official component cables for the Wii or better yet HDMI for Wii U. The earlier Wii models have native GC support and others can be modded to add back in. There are benefits from using the Wii/U and running GC games, such as better performance. However, there are also some potential drawbacks in image quality. I believe some of the loaders have options to remove deflicker and other stuff Nintendo added that degrade the image quality on HDTVs. The GC and Wii libraries were awesome and on top of that has a great selection of 'light gun' games that have been ported over - Ghost Squad was particularly great!

quackers · 15 Jul 2024 at 16:40

I've recently picked up a WII U and it's really good, I was hoping to be able to play wii games on it without it dropping into the wii mode, but overall I think a must for every retro console collection.

Zaphan58 · 3 Dec 2024 at 17:26

I've recently been given a Wii and picked up a few games cheap. Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong etc. Looking forward to setting it up and seeing how it looks.

xiphrex · 3 Dec 2024 at 17:59

Zaphan58 said:
I've recently been given a Wii and picked up a few games cheap. Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong etc. Looking forward to setting it up and seeing how it looks.

You're in for a treat!

By the way - you may need to get a HDMI adapter for your TV. I got the "Wii 2 HDMI" one and it works well.

Zaphan58 · 3 Dec 2024 at 20:26

xiphrex said:
You're in for a treat!

By the way - you may need to get a HDMI adapter for your TV. I got the "Wii 2 HDMI" one and it works well.

Thanks, yes just ordered one of those adapters after realising my TV doesn't have any composite input

I think it should be a good bit of fun over Christmas. I've dug my GameCube controller and games from the loft as well.

JoeBoi · 3 Dec 2024 at 20:31

Zaphan58 said:
Thanks, yes just ordered one of those adapters after realising my TV doesn't have any composite input I think it should be a good bit of fun over Christmas. I've dug my GameCube controller and games from the loft as well.

Get Nintendont on that bad boy. 480p Gamecube games

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xiphrex · 4 Dec 2024 at 09:46

Zaphan58 said:
Thanks, yes just ordered one of those adapters after realising my TV doesn't have any composite input I think it should be a good bit of fun over Christmas. I've dug my GameCube controller and games from the loft as well.

When the whole family gets together, the kids love playing Wii Sports multiplayer and its pretty much the only thing they play!

sja360 · Sunday at 00:01

xiphrex said:
When the whole family gets together, the kids love playing Wii Sports multiplayer and its pretty much the only thing they play!

I wondered about a wii for the kids recently especially for these group gatherings / games. Used to play them loads with friends in our 20's to death in fact.

My girls are 4 & 8 though so may take some time to get used it.

xiphrex · Monday at 09:28

sja360 said:
I wondered about a wii for the kids recently especially for these group gatherings / games. Used to play them loads with friends in our 20's to death in fact.

My girls are 4 & 8 though so may take some time to get used it.

They would love it if they anything like my kids!

Especially games with motion control - they seem to more easily understand what they need to do as opposed to controller button co-ordination.

Wii sports bowling, golf and tennis are a big hit!