Wii Fit

Wii Fit
Developer: Nintendo EAD Group No. 5 Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Wii Released in JP: December 1, 2007 Released in US: May 21, 2008 Released in EU: April 25, 2008 Released in AU: May 8, 2008 Released in KR: December 6, 2008 This game has unused animations. This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a prerelease article

To do: There may be debug options at offset 43ABF0 of the executable USA Rev 1 Prerelease content from E3 2007. Translate Common/RPHealthZazen/common.carc/Zazen.brres into English.

Wii Fit is an exercise game that uses the Wii Balance Board for a bunch of different minigames, as well as doing yoga with a woman who somehow became a fighter in the Super Smash Bros. series. The game was a huge success, and even spawned a sequel.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Models

Soccer Heading

Common\RPHpe2Scene\common.carc\hdg.brres has an earlier version of the Soccer Heading field without footballs or a panda head being spread across the ground.

Common\RPHpeScene\common.carc\ball.brres has 3 Soccer Heading balls with different models and lighting compared to the final ones.

Balance Bubble

Common\RPHpeScene\common.carc\iraira_map.brres has a version of the Balance Bubble course with textures similar to E3 2006's Obstacle Course Demo.

Common\RPHpeScene\common.carc\ira_bee.brres and Common\RPHpeScene\common.carc\ira_baloon.brres are early bee and balloon models

Ski Jump

Common\RPHpeScene\common.carc\3D_word.brres contains unused 3D text for the Ski Jump minigame.

Common\RPHpeScene\common.carc\skj_board.brres Contains unused Skis for the Skiing Minigames.

Table Tilt

Common\RPHpe2Scene\common.carc\kkg_board.brres contains two unused Table Tilt levels from the E3 2007 demo of Wii Fit.

Lotus Focus/Zazen

Common\RPHealthZazen\common.carc\zazen.brres is an unused candle with some text on it used for the Lotus Focus/Zazen game.

Model	Texture

Parachuting

Common\RPHpe2Scene\common.carc\parachute_course.brres is the Wii Sports golf training course, used for the scrapped Parachuting game.

Common\RPHpe2Scene\common.carc\parachute_data.brres are parachute and target objects used in the Parachuting game.

Common\RPHpe2Scene\common.carc\GateRing.brres is a ring associated with the Parachuting game. It resembles the one seen in the the E3 2006 Wii Sports Airplane demo., although it lacks the red stripes.

Fencing

To do: There are also textures for the rest of the sports balls from Wii Sports and Wii Play.

Common\RPHpeScene\common.carc\fencing.brres and Common\RPHpe2Scene\common.carc\fencing.brres contains the Wii Sports Boxing training ball, used for the scrapped Fencing game.

Common\RPHpeScene\common.carc\sabel.brres is a sabel model for the Fencing game.

Balance Test

Common\RPHealthBalance\common.carc has four brres files for some sort of test with a ball, goal, seesaw, and... stop!!

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  The ball

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  The beautifully-textured goal

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  The seesaw

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  stop!!

Realistic Trainer

To do: Make GIFs of the animations.

Common\RPHealthMainScene\common.arc has a 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 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.

Unused Graphics

stamp.brres

Common\RPHealthCommon\common.carc has two unused dummy textures. The first one, "仮", translates to "temporary".

HealthTrainingSY.arc

LayoutCommon\RPHealthTraining\common.carc has two unused textures which are of a person breathing.

icon_checkpoint.bti

Common\RPHealthCommon\common.carc contains a file called icon_checkpoint.bti, which could be a icon for a checkpoint, as the name suggests, in the unused Balance Test game.

HealthBalance.arc

LayoutCommon\RPHealthBalance\common.carc has an unused texture of a placeholder image for the Balance Test minigames. "仮", translating to "temporary"

icon_test.brres

Common\RPHealthTraining\common.carc has a file called item_test.brres, which has instructions on meditative breathing.

In various files, a placeholder graphic of a very blurry Mii face can be found, likely most often used as placeholder Mii faces in games like Table Tilt.

HealthTrainingMenu.arc

Layout Common\RPHealthMenu\common.carc has unused icons for the Training Menu, showing locked icons for minigames that are normally available on a new profile.

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  Hula Hoop

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  Basic Step

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  Basic Run

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  2-P Run

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  Soccer Heading

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  Ski Slalom

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  Ski Jump

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  Table Tilt

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  Single-Leg Extension

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  Push-Up and Side Plank

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  Torso Twists

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  Jackknife

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  Lunge

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  Deep Breathing

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  Half-Moon

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  Warrior

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  Tree

pose_icons

Common\RPHealthMainScene\common.carc has three icons of Tree Pose.

Unused Animations

Body Test

Common\HealthShared\common.carc\avatar.brres & Common\Hpe2Scene\common.carc\health_test.brres contain unused animations for the Body Test, most of which include what animation your mii will do when the game calculates your BMI and Wii Fit Age.

Balance Bubble

Common\HpeScene\common.carc\avatar_ira.brres contains unused animations for Balance Bubble, mainly having to do with how your Mii moves inside the bubble.

Basic Step

Common\HpeScene\common.carc\avatar_step.brres contain unused animations for Basic Step, which were earlier animations for the Miis stepping on and off the balance boards. These animations look similar to the ones used in the E3 2007 trailer for Wii Fit. It seems like the Balance Boards were positioned higher up when these animations were made as the Miis float a bit above the Balance Boards when the animations are used.

Unused Text

Fit Credit Unlocks

There is unused text in US\Message\health_message.bmg that would have implied that you would have had to unlock more training games, rather than already having those games unlocked as in the final game. It seems that Soccer Heading and 2P Run would have been the only games that would've been already unlocked.

Balance Games

You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Ski Shalom.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Ski Jump.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Table Tilt.

Aerobics

You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Hula Hoop®.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Basic Step.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Basic Run.

Strength Training

You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Single-Leg Extension.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Torso Twists.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Lunge.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Push-Up and Side Plank.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Jackknife.

Yoga

You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Deep Breathing.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Half-Moon.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Warrior.
You've collected enough Fit Credits to unlock Tree.

Basic Step

Unused text in US\Message\health_message.bmg suggests that Basic Step would have originally have had an Advanced and Expert Difficultly, instead of Advanced being a separate game and Expert being completely unused in the final game.

You're getting good at this. Unlocked: Advanced
You're getting good at this. Unlocked: Expert

Lotus Focus

Unused text at entry ID 2600192 in US\Message\health_message.bmg suggests that Lotus Focus would have had subtitles for the announcer.

Katsu! Sit still.
Begin...
And that's the end.

Regional Differences

...But what does it mean? This game has text or audio that needs to be translated. If you are fluent with this language, please read our translation guidelines and then submit a translation!

Wii Fit Plaza

Some of the Wii Fit Plaza options' translations are different.

North America	Japan	Japan (Translated)
Wii Fit Plaza	みんなの広場	Everyone's Plaza
BMI	BMIの変化	Change in BMI
New Profile	新規登録	New Registration

Training Game Names

Some of the Training games' names were changed when localizing to other regions.

North America	Japan	Japan (Translated)
Soccer Heading	へディング	Heading
Ski Slalom	バランススキー	Balance Ski
Balance Bubble	バランスMii	Balance Mii
Penguin Slide	ペンギンシーソー	Penguin Seesaw
Snowboard Slalom	バランススノボー	Balance Snowboard
Aerobics	有酸素運動	Aerobic Exercise
Basic Run	ジョギング	Jogging
Free Step	ながら踏み台	Simultaneous Stepping
Free Run	ながらジョギング	Simultaneous Jogging

Hula Hoop

For some reason, the hoops are different between the International and Japanese versions.

International	Japan

Trial Mode (Training)

There are some differences in Trial Mode in the Training section for the International and Japanese versions.

International	Japan (Final)	Japan (Demo Disc)

• The International and Japanese Demo version has more Aerobic and Balance games, while the Japanese version has more Strength Training and Yoga games.
• The International and Japanese Demo version has a more standard layout, while the Japanese version has a "T" shape for the Balance and Aerobic games.
• The International version exclusively has Tightrope Tension and Balance Bubble, the Japanese version exclusively has Push Up and Side Planks & Deep Breathing, and the Japanese Demo version exclusively has Penguin Slide.
• The “Fit” part of the Wii Fit logo is gray in Japanese versions and light green in International versions.

Development Remnants

Build Timestamps

Present in timeStamp.txt.

Japan	Japan Rev 1	USA	USA Rev 1	Europe	Europe Rev 1	Japan Demo	Korea	Taiwan
2007/10/29 02:22 Pack Project	2007/12/04 13:37 Pack Project	2008/03/25 10:41 Pack Project	2008/07/29 11:22 Pack Project	2008/02/26 14:17 Pack Project	2008/08/05 17:27 Pack Project	2008/08/19 13:11 Pack Project	2008/09/05 15:15 Pack Project	2008/09/05 15:18 Pack Project

Camera Scripts

To do: Double check if this applies to other regions.

In the USA Rev 1 edition, two csv files are left behind in "Common/RPHealthMainScene/common.carc" in its "chart" folder. One named "radio_gym_00.csv" and the other "実験トレーニング_データフォーマット.csv" (roughly translating to ExperimentalTraining_DataFormat), they describe camera actions, timing, sound, animation and sequences.

Download Camera Scripts File: Wii Fit Scripts.zip (3 KB) (info)

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Installation Info

Present in InstallInfo/HealthNand#$.txt is a log-kind of file (presumably meant for the the game's channel) where according to the internal developer wiki, these files are titled the way symbol maps are.

# is the destination (game region) and $ is Target (build target) (i.e. "UP" is US Product). Interestingly, it mentions most likely the internal name of the game's channel.

Europe Rev 1
WadName: HealthNandPackEP titleId: 0001000452464e50 Company: 01 Blocks : 955 i-node : 13 Date : 08/08/05 17:37 Builder: @FITUS2NDBLD-WI Tool : mekeWad ver 1.1

Config File

gameConfig.ini in the disc's root includes a few settings, some of which have been commented out.

# Pack Project Game Config File { # RootScene ヘルスパック # ルートシーン設定 # TVMode 16:9 # ＴＶモード設定 # Language EN # 言語設定 # Sound ステレオ # サウンド設定 RPPrint 1 # 共通プリント設定 RPSysPrint 1 # システムプリント設定 RPUtlPrint 1 # ユーティリティプリント設定 RPAudPrint 1 # オーディオプリント設定 RPSndPrint 1 # サウンドプリント設定 RPUserPrint 1 # ユーザプリント設定 RPKasPrint 1 # 笠松さんプリント設定 RPMatPrint 1 # 松谷さんプリント設定 RPSawPrint 1 # 澤谷さんプリント設定 RPSakPrint 1 # 榊原さんプリント設定 RPKodPrint 1 # 幸田さんプリント設定 RPGutPrint 1 # 坂口さんプリント設定 RPSaiPrint 1 # 酒井さんプリント設定 RPSumPrint 1 # 住吉さんプリント設定 RPUmePrint 1 # 梅宮さんプリント設定 # GameOpen 0 # ゲームオープン設定 end }

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:

	Europe Rev 1
Gecko Code	041850b8 38800001

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, -, +

Use the D-Pad to scroll.

Unreleased Chinese version

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.

Simplified Chinese Safety Screen

Found in LayoutCommon/RPHealthTitle/common.carc/HealthStrap.arc are the strap/safety screens in Simplified Chinese. These match the ones present on Mario Kart Wii.

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.