Actually, the family edition Wiis still do play gamecube games natively. You need to mod it first, but you can run them with nintendont and a classic controller.
No device (consumer level, anyway) can simulate the force feedback of a sword hitting another sword (or the wall).
I actually got Red Steel 2 and a Motion Plus not too long ago. Pretty solid game.
Modding it and running Nintendont is not anywhere near the level of "backwards compatible" as there being controller ports & memory card slots on the side and the ability to just play discs.
I never got a Wii Motion Plus, and haven't seen one in the wild.
I wanted to make something like Steel Battalion 1, But graphics is hard and I don't know how to make the cockpit.
See, my hope is that Nintendo brings us a new peripheral superior to even the Motion Plus for some kind of "Pokemon Snap Point 'n' Shoot Splatoon Whatever" game, and then 3rd party developers can use that as a springboard to make games where you gun down communists
If only there was a Wii game that tried to accurately reflect sword movements, and if only there was a version for modern hardware.
Friendly Primarina Said it best:
This, unfortunately, is not limited to motion controls, even without them many games require too much involvement and/or physical activity, which could lead to stress and damage, including that of input devices, and even then there's no guarantee you'll pass a particular section. NRS used to love this shit, now they've replaced most of it with really shitty MTX and RNGs.
Fashion smashion. Even the NES (probably peak lightgun days) didn't have very many. Yet: the Xbox had a lightgun. Nintendo themselves even did that Zelda crossbow game to hawk the Motion Plus. If motion detection tech was as cheap to manufacture and convenient to set up as actual light guns, we'd probably still have them. (In fact, I guess we still do, but I mean: ones that actually work well.)
Just a little observation, Link's Crossbow Training was released in 2007, while the Wii Motion Plus wasn't released until 2009. So the game doesn't require nor supports the peripheral.
That game was better than it had any right to be. It'd be cool if they ported it to Switch as a bonus for Twilight Princess HD or something like that.
I have to say, the Beatles replica gutiars for Rock Band are pretty nice and look good on a game room wall.
The Menacer for Genesis had a fun mini-game pack that came with it and good ports of T2: The Arcade Game and Revolution X, I am not sure that Area 51 actually shipped for it, and there were one or two other things, but it came out at a bad time and already had competition on the market in the form of Konami's Justifier pistol for Lethal Enforcers and the US Senate hearings on video game violence that led the SEGA ratings system being spun off to become the ESRB to stave off government game ratings. Lethal Enforcers was one of the games vilified to an insane extent, despite basically being a civilian version of a police Hogan's Alley trainer.
I foolishly asked for a Menacer for Christmas '92. At the time a grand total of two games supported it: the bundled game and Terminator 2. I recall the Menacer working reasonably well but it saw little use and quickly ended up in a closet. Only one other game was released with Menacer support: Body Count in 1994. Far too little, far too late.
