- i didn't do this back in the day, but you could get a fit meter (cheap, basically a retrofitted pokewalker) and a balance board (filled up thrift stores) and nintendo would give you the digital version for free.
- they still force you to have a bmi in wii fit u. i don't recall an option to skip it at least.
- Allegedly fit u contains every game from wii fit and fit plus, which, along with its exclusive games and hd graphics, might make it the definitive version of the series
- they have you hold the gamepad when you weigh yourself and subtract the gamepad weight from the measurement
- they/them
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in reply to @invis's post:
shit, i never had that bad of a reaction to wii fit but this certainly explains some things. thank you for writing this
Still reading but FYI, the "when questioned" link, albeit linking to the Wayback Machine, eventually lands at a 404.
Edit: Thanks for the article, damn, I was overweight as a kid so Wii Fit probably wouldn't have done me any wonders. I picked up DDR instead!
thank you very much for this write-up. I knew there was something off about Wii Fit when I tried it, and couldn't really dial it in until someone I know took to checking their numbers with it quite a bit too seriously.
The balance board as an input technology is quite fascinating, and it effectively gives you four reasonably accurate and high-speed low-latency pressure sensors over bluetooth. I wish the Wii would let you use the board to move the pointer onscreen, but you can do that with Dolphin now, I'm reasonably sure.
I used it for moving my mouse cursor or panning my microscope back when I had my lab, to control the other two axes in Descent and other flight simulators, or as an electronic footswitch. I was working on a homemade Taiko no Tatsujin controller, among some other projects, using $1 thrift-shop balance boards.
I wonder if it works with Steam Input on the Steam Deck? I could program up some UI overlay stuff to work with it.
Fun fact: It has a UART I/O under the battery box (which iirc carries the HID channel it uses over Bluetooth), and contains much of the requisite electronic guts of a Wii remote, including the speaker and that little memory for Mii programming.
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