In these uncertain times of sheltering in place, it is important to stay active with indoor exercises. Years ago when I got an elliptical machine, it was used mostly as a coat rack. I was able to run outside at least every weekend and would occasionally used the "coat rack" during the week, but it was mostly not used. Likewise, for a while my son was using the Wii program Wii Fit Plus, with the required Wii Board, to do yoga and strength exercises. A few months ago when I pulled the Wii Board out of cobweb, the batteries already busted but luckily a little cleaning with rubbing alcohol and cotton swaps, plus fresh batteries, all was good again. I've been using the elliptical and Wii Fit everyday.
As great as Wii Fit is, there are only so many yoga poses, strength exercises, and balance games to interact with. A few weeks into the new routine, I started searching for a sequel of Wii Fit. There is one and it's called Wii Fit Plus. Not wanting to be a compulsive buyer, I promised myself not to buy it until I finished all the moves. Or at least between my son and me. It's necessary to add that additional clause because I am horrible at the balance games and only play a few of them, whereas my son aced all of them.
It's been a long time since Wii Fit etc came out so there are no "new" program to buy. Amazon offers Renewed version at some discount with a guarantee so I went with that. For some reason, among the various offerings on Amazon there was a PAL version. From my days of dealing with software for the Amiga platform, which was popular in Europe, I learned about NTSC and PAL, the two primary video signals used in the U.S. and Europe, plus other places. I don't know the nitty-gritty details of the difference, just that you cannot view a video made for PAL on a TV set in the U.S., which can only handle NTSC. I made sure the Wii Fit Plus I bought does not say PAL or spells out NTSC. I used the Amazon Locker at my local 7 Eleven, no package for you you porch pirates!
It's been a while since I last inserted a disc into the Wii, the first time I did so with the Wii Fit Plus disc I did it wrong and the disc couldn't be read. Flipped it over and all was well again. I plan to go through every yoga pose, every strength exercise, with different levels of time duration, every balance games, just to make sure the disc has no bad sector or scratch. So far the three new yoga poses and the new strength exercises work so I don't expect to return the disc. My son is still going through the many balance games, hopefully nothing wrong there.
I suspected that the Wii has some internal memory that remembers all the players and their stats. I am glad that that is the case. It makes sense, but sometimes things don't necessarily make sense in real life.
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