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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.
Of course don't know how pricing is in your area. But here Wii's are pretty cheap. 30/40 Euro's with a 1 or 2 Wii motes. I even picked up one for free (hardware and software worked, but needed some cleaning on the outside).
If you are okay with piracy a Wii is really easy to hack. With lots of homebrew. So if you don't mind having original disc's it is pretty cheap.
If you want something more powerful there is of course the Wii u. Wich can run Linux with homebrew. But they are more expensive.
However seems you already have other plans now.
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.