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I have a few things planned. I mostly want to use it to play non emulated games but I'm also interested in using it as a clicker for slide show presentations and as a remote control.
I'm really interested in the sensors as you can use it to track just about anything.
Ok. Now you have me curious. I tried this years ago on windows but it needed a third party Bluetooth stack and it did not support enough of the Wii remote to be useful. I presume you are using something like XWiimote on Linux.
Xwiimote isn't in the Fedora repos so I booted into a Live Linux mint system and my remote did not show up. I tried loading the kernel module and a few other things but it just didn't work. Finally I setup dolphin with a free software game. It worked fine as the game was just flappy bird. The dolphin bar acts as a middle man and can be configured in a few different ways. The main advantage is that you just push a button to connect the remote instead of all of the complex setup.
Believe it or not my original original plan was to buy a Wii and a bunch of games as I was feeling nostalgic but then I decided it wasn't worth spending a few hundred dollars on.
Will look into this. I still have my original Wii and out of all the old consoles I have, it is the only one my family comes back to regularly even now that that my kids are adults. Waiting for it to pack it in one day.
I'm honestly a bit jealous. The two things I grew up on was the Wii and Linux. The Wii I don't have as my parents got rid of it while I was still in school. I'm still slightly upset to this day but that was a long time ago so I mostly bury it.
The original Wii console doesn't have a lot of RAM so you can't do much with it. That is further worsened by the fact that it hasn't had any security patches in quite sometime so that's why I am interested in running games on my local machine. You can pickup a dolphin bar for 25-30 USD.