I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow!
2026-02-19 02:17 UTC
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@Apeman42@lemmy.world 2026-02-19 02:24
I never tried that one, but I also had a recent late-to-the-party “gaming as exercise” discovery: Beat Saber! I never gelled with rhythm games before I got a VR headset, but I’m really digging it, and it totally gets me sweating after a while.
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@Zahille7@lemmy.world 2026-02-19 02:32
Is the balance board the same as the normal wii fit? Cause I remember playing it a ton shortly after it came out. My aunt and uncle had one, and so did my grandpa; I remember loving the skateboard mini game, and Wii Sports Resort I think had a few games that used it too. I also remember it helping me lose weight too.
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@neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-19 03:08
A friend of mine wrote some software and ended up using one of those as a foot mouse.
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@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2026-02-19 04:29
I worked on a game that supports it. It was total shit compared to playing with a controller. Nintendo dev tools were fucking archaic at the time which made it suck to work with. What are you playing?
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@doug@lemmy.today 2026-02-19 05:05
I really wanted a social component to the Wii Fit game. Like jogging on the same track as the one in the game but like, you see your friends or even just strangers’ avatars jogging nearby that you can high five.
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-02-19 11:57
There is a pose from Wii Fit yoga that still haunts me with how much it hurt to do the first few times. The one where you go arns out with one foot planted on the thigh of your other leg and then you have to maintain your balance for like 60 seconds or something. It stretched muscles I didn’t even know existed.
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@DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-19 14:47
I’m really bad about even consistently playing VR games for fun, let alone for exercise. But once I finally make space, boot up the gaming pc and reconnect the VR kit, it’s almost always worth the effort and I kick myself a bit for not playing more often. I do have fairly annoying stick drift on my (Index) controllers though, so that strongly dissuades/prevents me from playing games that are designed around using them. It’s been a couple years since I’ve really played any Beat Saber, but I think my favorite custom map just for fun was "Happy" by C2C (YouTube vid [not mine])
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@fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2026-02-19 22:11
heck i got like 3 or 4 wii’s in totes collecting dust, all hacked, i have an old 250gb HDD filled with wii/GC games that i ripped using consoles and spent tons of time emulating on them but these days i just fire up dolphin, its too easy, and being able to improve the graphics and such. I was so into dolphin years ago that i bought two Wii bluetooth units and pass em through to the emulator, its just too good!! i syncthing the whole save folder in the flatpak directory (for all the emulators tbh) so i can bounce the different areas of the house! me and my partner have been able to encourage each other a little bit, i can get up there and do a little yoga and the hula hoop and then they gotta hop up to see if they can spin more hoops than me. we end up getting 15 minutes every time and surprisingly that is enough! but heck as far as actually wii stuff i wanna play more, i want another playthrough of wii RE4, and i have never beat galaxy’s 1 or 2! they are on my list also.
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@fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2026-02-21 13:28
oh heck yeah! thanks!!