KOC: There is a very useful aiming calibration option in at least one light-gun game I played on the Wii, and that's Ghost Squad. I was able to get pretty much perfect aiming in that game, so that I could aim down the sights of that silly plastic accessory I'd jammed the wii remote into, so I could play without the targeting reticule (as it kind of defeats the point of playing a light gun game). Also, the game is just hilarious, I highly recommend it.

I seem to remember you can do the same in House of the Dead Overkill as well, but I'm not sure.

elus89: Edit: I don't recommend the "two sensors option" because that would require a second power source (another Wii) or splicing a wire to the second one. You could, however, take one sensor and break one half of the lights off (carefully, cutting the plastic accurately and then spinning the wire on one side) and the splice them back together with wire in the amount you wish to set the sensors apart.

Yeah, there's a number of homebrew 'solutions' because all you need is a source of IR. I've heard ideas of candles and the-like, but I don't know how practical that would be for you. The extended range sensor likely works on the same principle, it's just varying positions of IR lights set into a plastic module. Unfortunately it's not like old Gun-con games which were set according the the display's light patterns, because that required CRT televisions, which a Wii owner obviously can't rely on anymore.

There may be options for 'above' or 'below' the TV, I'll check it out with MP:T and RS2.

Edit: Yes, the "above" and "below TV" settings are in the main Wii settings.

Unfortunately, there aren't the settings you wished for in either of those games

I did some casual preliminary testing to figure out where the pointer felt accurate. On my 32-inch 4:3 CRT with a standard IR emitter, the sensor on top of the monitor (separated by two inches of border), and the Wii settings set to "Above TV" the Wii remote felt accurate at four feet away. Further than that and I had to point slightly outwards to get the same effect.

I assume this means with a wider spread between the IR emitters that you would have to point inwards at four feet and at a longer distance away it would feel accurate.

Also, if I carry the results of my test over, you could set up the standard IR emitter on "Below TV" settings and then place it on a coffee table or something, facing you at a distance of four feet from your assumed stationary position(assuming the same television dimensions) and that may have potential to feel accurate.

lowyhong: -snip