AboutHelen Joan Casper Expertise Ever since I played "Pong" in the early 80's, I've been a video game aficionado. I can answer hardware & games questions about PSP (PlayStation Portable), all PlayStation (1,2,& 3), Wii, Wii Fit, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo (NES), Super Nintendo, Gameboy/Gameboy Advance, and antiquated systems (ColecoVision, Atari, Sega, etc). I can answer hardware questions about all systems (including PS1 - PS3, Wii, NES, SNES, PSP, DS, GBA, GB, Xbox and Xbox 360). I can also answer PC game questions, especially CounterStrike: Source, Vampire: Bloodlines, Half-Life 1&2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and all Sims & Sims 2 questions. I am ESPECIALLY knowledgeable in Square-Enix (formerly SquareSoft) games such as ALL the Final Fantasy games (I can even tell you really obscure things about these games). If I haven't played the game yet I will research it and help you find the answer, renting the game if necessary. I can even answer questions dealing with the consoles themselves (hardware questions).
I cannot answer questions about Action Replay. I cannot answer questions about football, basketball, or wrestling sports games. I also have very limited knowledge about Xbox & Xbox 360 games unless they are cross-platform. If it is an independent game that has not been widely published and/or a game only released in some countries, I may not be able to help with it either (sadly!)
Experience I am also an expert here in games/roleplaying games, weddings, childbirth, and doulas. My husband is a computer programmer and one of the forefront coders for CounterStrike: Source scripts & mods. He has his own forums for coders/scripters at Mattie.Info. I have been an expert here since 2000 (under the name of Helen Chipman) and also volunteer on numerous other game-related websites and forums.
Question ok I was playing the Nintendo Wii and this Wii-mote is incredibly awesome.
but how does it work? I know about the whole sensors and stuff but in al its
entirety, how does it detect the speed, angle, position, as well as its location
when pointed at the screen? how does it determine which controller is
pointed at what during multi-player games?
I'm sorry this may be a difficult question to answer but i want to know all
about how this works, can you help me out?
Answer It all lies in the calibration between the sensor bar and the Wiimote. The sensor bar can detect distance, position, and which Wiimote controls which player. When you turn on your Wiimote, the console assigns a player number to it- you can see this at the bottom of it. This is how your Wii is able to determine which player's signal is which- because the console has already assigned it a player number.
As for position and angle, this is done through calibration between the Wiimote and the sensor bar. The controller can sense even slight rotation and sends this to data to the sensor, which sends it to the console. For position, the sensor bar can detect the distance at which the signal is received. The Wiimote itself can determine the speed at which the wiimote is moved, which can be used by some games to determine speed as well. Basically, the Wiimote and sensor bar send the console data about position and movement. The console then sends it to the game and the game's programming determines what this data will do. So for some games, tilting the Wiimote slightly won't have an effect. In others, such as Wii Sports Bowling, tilting the Wiimote slightly will put spin on your bowling ball and affect your game. =)
Please let me know if you'd like more detail, need further help, or need help with anything else.
