Wii Fit

Not to be confused with Wii Fitness from Wii Sports, or Wii Fit U or Wii Fit Plus.

Wii Fit is a fitness exercise game released on the 1st of December 2007 in Japan, the 28th of April 2008 in Europe, the 8th of May 2008 in Australia, and May the 21st, 2008 in North America for the Wii.

Wii Fit is a combination of fitness, simplicity and fun. Designed for everyone, young and old. By playing Wii Fit a little every day, players can go for their personal fitness goals, learn about physiology, or just have fun.

The video game is a companion piece to Wii Music.

Game Features

There are two main modes in Wii Fit. There is the Body Test and Training. In the body test, Wii Fit will measure the player's center of balance, and body mass index (BMI), then will give them two balance tests before determining your Wii Fit Age. In training mode, the player can select one of 48 activities in the yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balance games sections. These can be selected by the Wii Fit Plaza. There are also features such as Charting Progress, which allows users to see how many calories they burned.

Expansion Version

The sequel - expansion of Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus, released in October 2009, features new activities and workouts and more.

Games

List of Activities in Wii Fit/Wii Fit Plus

There are a total of 48 activities in Wii Fit divided into four categories: Yoga - Strength - Aerobics and Balance exercises. Some of these activities have different modes regarding players.

Reception

Wii Fit received generally favorable reviews according to Metacritic with a score of 80/100. (Citation needed)The highest critic score was from Pelit who gave it a 92/100 with the lowest coming from Game Revolution who gave it a 58/100. (Citation needed)The user scores were lower, with a score of 7.7. (Citation needed)

Gallery

The male Wii Fit trainer.

Hula Hoop, an example of a Wii Fit game.

The female Wii Fit trainer.

Trivia

• The Wii Fit Channel can be downloaded to your Wii with the Wii Fit game disc. It allows you to perform a Wii Fit Body Test without inserting the disc into your Wii.
  • Interestingly, when the download of the channel is complete, the Wii Fit Channel returns you to Wii Fit, but thereafter, the game will return you to the Wii Menu.
  • On the Wii Menu when hovering the cursor into the channel, It's listed as just Wii Fit instead of Wii Fit Channel.

Other (rather obscure) stuff

Unused content

• There are two unused exercises, the first is "Parachuting" which as the name implies, you parachute. In the files related to this "Parachuting" exercise is the Wii Sports Golf Training course which would have likely served as an actual course for this exercise. There are unused models of the actual parachute itself and a target that the player would have likely had to collide with or land in the center for points. Additionally, there is an model of a ring associated with this exercise. It resembles the one seen in the the E3 2006 Wii Sports Airplane demo, albeit lacking the red stripes.

The Golf training course from Wii Sports.

The target.

The Parachute.

The ring.

• The first is "Fencing". In the files related to this "Fencing" exercise is the Wii Sports Boxing Training ball and and a model of an épée.

The ball from Dodging in Wii Sports.

The épée.

• There is an unused model of a more realistic female trainer with textureless, solid-color clothes. Based on the structure of the model and the full version of her body texture, it is apparent that the model was originally nude (believe it or not, it is real) and the developers simply retextured parts of her body to create her clothing. The color of her clothes roughly match that of the normal trainer in the original Wii Fit. (They appear white in the image due to a rendering error.) The clothing meshes have their UV data removed, making them unable to use the body texture. The trainer has a few animations of some warm-up stretches and yoga poses, but her shoulders get distorted and inverted due to how they are rigged. Additionally, while the warm-up poses flow together, the yoga poses (different steps of the Tree pose) are almost completely still and have no transition between them (there is no gifs of this though.)

There model itself.

The full body texture of the realistic trainer model, which cannot be shown for obvious reasons (or likely even censored.)

Debugging Material

Build Display

• Oddly not stubbed out in product builds of the game is a hidden display for the product build date. According to the developer documents in an internal developer wiki found in the 2020-09-09 Nintendo leaks, pressing A, D-Pad Up, 2, D-Pad Down, B, 1, 1, B, D-Pad Left, A, D-Pad Right at the title screen will show a display in the bottom-right corner in black for the region and product build type (found in the executable) and also print out the data in timeStamp.txt until the scene is exited. There is no sound cue.

Performance Meter

• The game's code initializes an instance of the ProcessMeter from the EGG library, used by some first party Wii games. The green one measures the CPU sending commands to the GPU, the blue one shows the GPU rendering from said commands, and the red one displays the total frame time. In one of the initialization functions (RPSysSystem::setup0), the game deliberately hides the performance bar from the screen (at 0x801850c8 Europe Rev 1. To show it, use the Gecko code below:

Exception Handler

• The exception handler from the EGG library is present. When the game crashes, press the following buttons (in order, from left to right) on the 1st Wii Remote (Vertical) to bring it up: HOME, A, B, 1, 2, - and +. The D-Pad is used to scroll.

Miscellaneous stuff

• There was a lost demo for Wii Fit knamed "Wii Fit Taikenban (体験版)" which can be found here.
• There is also a Japanese exclusive channel related to Wii Fit called the Wii Fit Body Check Channel. It was similar to the Wii Fit Channel and Wii Fit Plus Channel, but It allowed Japanese Wii Users to do a Wii Fit Body Test and send the data to doctors. Wii Users would get this channel by getting an SD card that contained important data for the channel, and a Wii Download Ticket that they would use to download the channel for free. There is not much information known about this channel until two videos were uploaded showing this Channel in action. WiiLink has revived this channel as of August 24th, 2024.
• The Taiwanese disc contains files from the unreleased iQue Wii (Chinese) version of Wii Fit.

Simplified Chinese Wii Fit Channel Banner

• The Taiwanese version includes an unused Simplified Chinese banner (with the "Channel" string displayed as 频道) that can display if the console's language is set to Simplified Chinese. This can be viewed here.

Simplified Chinese Safety Screen

• There are also the strap/safety screens in Simplified Chinese. These match the ones present on Mario Kart Wii.

The first Chinese strap text.

The second Chinese strap text.

And the third Chinese strap text.

Simplified Chinese Channel Installer

• Attempting to install the Wii Fit Channel from the Taiwanese version of the game while the system is set to Simplified Chinese, the game will instead display the installer's unused Chinese translation, which can be seen here.