Wii Sports

Wii Sports
Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Wii Released in JP: December 2, 2006 Released in US: November 19, 2006 Released in EU: December 8, 2006 Released in AU: December 7, 2006 Released in KR: April 26, 2008 This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prerelease article

Bundled with every western Wii console for the first few years of its life, Wii Sports serves to demonstrate the capabilities of the Wii Remote's (or "Wiimote's") intuitive motion controls across five different sports. These include tennis, baseball, golf, boxing, and, the most popular of them all; bowling (try releasing the ball backward and see what happens; you'll laugh). Ever since, Wii Sports has become a popular favourite amongst Wii owners, much to the dismay of broken televisions everywhere.

To do: Unused graphics. Unused golf courses Other stuff?

Developer Text

Internal Name

Internally, the game is known by the generic title SPORTS PACK for REVOLUTION, where Revolution refers to the Wii's own pre-release codename.

Build Dates

Included in the file timeStamp.txt at the root of the disc is a build date, alongside another internal name, "Pack Project". On the Wii Sports + Wii Sports Resort combo disc, this file is located with the rest of the game's files; e.g., on the European disc, in /EU/sys/sports.

JP v1	NA v1	EU v1	TW
2006/10/25 11:52 Pack Project	2006/10/07 04:53 Pack Project	2006/10/17 15:26 Pack Project	2008/03/14 15:17 Pack Project
JP v2	NA (Sports + Resort)	EU (Sports + Resort)
2007/07/05 19:14 Pack Project	2010/06/07 14:04 Pack Project	2010/06/07 14:10 Pack Project

Config File

gameConfig.ini in the disc's root includes a few settings, several of which have been commented out. The second commented line references (Super) Mario Club, Nintendo's internal software testing group.

Original	Translated
# Pack Project Game Config File { # RootScene スポーツパック # ここでマリオクラブ用ROMをつくるのでTVModeは設定しないこと # TVMode １６：９ RPPrint 1 RPSysPrint 1 RPSndPrint 1 RPUserPrint 1 end }	# Pack Project Game Config File { # RootScene Sports Pack # Here, TVMode isn't set up, because it's made for the Mario Club ROM. # TVMode １６：９ RPPrint 1 RPSysPrint 1 RPSndPrint 1 RPUserPrint 1 end }

Empty Folder

Inside the data for game modes such as Tennis and Boxing is an empty folder named "Kokeshi". A kokeshi is a handmade Japanese doll that lacks arms or legs, which the design of the Mii avatars is based on. The folder's purpose is otherwise unknown.

Unused Golf Courses

glf_course_E3.carc

To do: Get clean screenshots of the final game. Put the E3 screenshots in the Prerelease namespace.

The golf course used in the E3 demo of Wii Sports still exists on the disc. It can be loaded up, though the minimap has a glitch that zooms it in extremely and some elements from the E3 2006 version are missing. The water in the final game does not have any animation.

File:WiiSports-E3AndFinal.png

What the course looks like

glf_course_survey.carc

This very glitchy course was most likely going to be a driving range where you could take practice swings, though it can be loaded. By the looks of it, it seems like this course was scrapped very early during the development of Wii Sports. The course has no skybox, you can't move on to the next course unless you miss enough to where the game makes you give up, everything is enlarged dramatically, and there are white walls that move randomly.

File:Wii Sports-Survey.PNG

What the course looks like in the game

glf_course_fc18.carc

File:Wii Sports Fc18.png

What the course looks like loaded in Wii Sports

This course was intended to be used as Hole 10 in the game. However, both the idea and course were scrapped. The course file is named "fc18" because the design is from Hole 18 of NES Golf. All of the golf courses on Wii Sports were recreated from NES Golf games, so this would fit well for the game.

Wii Course Map	NES
256px	256px

(Source: ryanskova)

glf_course_angle.carc

This course was a test by Nintendo to see how the game would handle slopes, hills, and a scrapped corkscrew slope. The textures are completely corrupted, the flag is nowhere in sight, and the only way to advance is to make enough failed hits to where the game makes you give up

File:WiiSports-Angle1.png

A picture of the course

File:WiiSports-Angle2.png

Another picture of the course

Revisional Differences

Some changes were made for later pressings, after the Wii Remote began coming packaged with a silicone sleeve. These changes are also present in the Nintendo Selects version of the game.

Wii Remote Sleeves

The warning screens and all other graphics of the Wii Remote were updated to reflect the silicone jacket's release.

Pre-Jacket	Post-Jacket

Baseball

There is an animation that was added to the game opening scene: as it begins, the opposing teams face one another and the camera passes between them. As the camera passes each Mii, they look toward the screen, giving the cutscene some personality. This may have been added to make clearer who is on the teams, since all but the pitcher are randomly selected.

In the original release, if a grounder was caught quick enough to call an out, the Mii who caught it would simply hold it. In the re-release, should this event happen, the Mii will also throw the ball to first to make it a bit more realistic.

Boxing

Initially, after knocking out an opponent, the game would instantly go to the You Won/Lost sequence afterwards. In the re-release, two replays are shown of the winner's Mii knocking out the opponent, going into slow-motion at the end of each replay. These replays also play a music track that didn't appear in earlier versions.

Regional Differences

Baseball

To do: Insert the Japanese/Korean and International audio files to compare.

In the Japanese and Korean releases, the announcer had terms that were easy for non-English speakers to understand. In the international release, the terms were changed to regular baseball terms.

• A single is referred to as a "hit".
• A double and triple are referred to as "two-base hit" and "three-base hit".
• When a fielder catches the ball, the announcer simply says "out" instead of "you're out", and when they change sides, the announcer simply says "change" instead of "change sides".
• When the game is over, the announcer says "game set" instead of "that's the game".