I would argue that swinging the sword in Zelda: Twilight Princess was waggle. Same for the spin in Mario Galaxy.
I would consider waggle most configurations that required you to shake the controller or nunchuck to perform an action that was arguably just as well adapted to a button press.
Keep in mind, I loved the Wii and played it throughout its lifespan. I think it has a great library, so I’m no hater.
No excuses for waggle though! 
The antithesis of waggle must be mashing the button to recover from a crash in Exite Truck? Love that.
Then I’m reminded about the red bars in ExciteBots and the winding motion you had to do. Urgh.
Yeah ‘waggle’ and indeed button mashing can even have their place. I enjoyed it in TP because it always worked, and the controller was already held in a way that facilitated it. As opposed to DKCR’s shake while holding sideways which was just annoying. Interestingly it felt fine in NSMB due to better implementation.
On the other hand Excite Truck’s motion control steering was absolutely supoib. God that was a good game.
Waggle, like with DKCR’s roll and SMGalaxy’s spin worked okay but I would have preferred something precise, there is something nebulous about when those actions would be performed which I didn’t like and seemed at odds with the other precision activated moves.
I don’t dislike all motion controls though, they work really well in Wii Sports.
I think you are all well aware of how I feel about Excite Truck. It’s right there in my avatar. 
I play it through every couple of years. It’s so much easier now that it was when motion was new. Just a brilliant, brilliant game.
Wii Mini exploit is released
I recently read that some (older?) Wii-HDMI adapters output at 480p and have zero lag. Perfect for my 480p display.
Brands include: Sewell, Portholic, Snxiwth.
Does anybody have any experience with these? None of them are available in the UK so if I’m importing I really need to be sure I’m buying a good one.
Current eBay adapters upscale to 720p/1080p and introduce lag.
Does anyone have any good OSSC settings for the Wii? It looks awful to me: extremely dull colours and very obvious ghosting. I also can’t seem to get audio with the phono to headphone jack adaptor I have either.
Launch model.
I usually run everything at default, except at line2x, turn on upsample2x, and set some soft scanlines (like 12%). This makes it look very crisp without getting too pixelated, soft but not blurry. A soft crispiness if that isn’t an oxymoron. Getting 480p to 960p goes a long way to cleaning it up for my TV, colors end up looking a lot better. I’m not sure what could help for ghosting.
No luck reseting everything back to default, it still looks dreadful. To be honest even if it didn’t have those problems, the blurriness would be a deal breaker I think.
For all the Wii U’s flaws in vWii mode, it might be the lesser evil here for me.
Wii is inherently blurry, even in 480p mode, because different software runs at different resolutions which are then scaled twice horizontally before display.
System Menu runs at 686x456 for example.
The 480p fix helps a little, it’s possible to use that for System Menu (using Priiloader) and for individual games (using USB loaders).
Also, I ended up buying a Portholic HDMI adapter on Amazon Germany. It’s good.
I’ve always found the scaling to produce frustratingly stretched/compressed graphics in certain games. I seem to remember the unoptimised 50hz Wii version of Baroque looking more ‘correct’ in Wii U’s Wii mode for some reason.
I’ll get a later model PAL Wii someday and experiment with that. For now I am going back to the Wii U: it looks noticeably better.
I think the required support for both 4:3 and 16:9 was met with minimum effort by some developers.
Even titles with high production values have squished/stretched elements on various screens.
Even in first party games, this occasionally happened. Pikmin’s new play control versions are an example of stretched UI elements when played in 16:9.
Yep, it’s a blemish on the experience of done if the greatest games.
Can anyone recommend some decent component cables? I’d grab the HD Retrovision ones but Amazon don’t ship them to Australia and the other retailers I’ve found are charging the price of the cables to ship them here.
*edit I might just wait until Castlemania games are back in stock as from memory their shipping is quite reasonable.
So I was playing Dreamcast in glorious 20" VGA last night and I wondered about Wii video.
There is a VGA mod (perhaps too fine soldering for me) https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/wii-native-vga-version-1-5.2176/
And of course WiiDual has been discontinued, so we have to wait for Dan’s forthcoming new Wii solution, which (news scoop?) “will work on all models except the mini”. https://twitter.com/citrus3000psi/status/1233402334920761345
