Between us debuted on the console earlier this month coming to the Nintendo Switch, but apparently it is not the only Nintendo console on which the game will be developed. With the right setup, someone was able to get the game running on the Nintendo Wii, though it certainly doesn’t work too well on the platform and it’s really proof that the idea works better than anything else. The user who achieved the feat shared a video of the project for Between us community to see along with an explanation of how things were done.
You can watch the video below Between us can be controlled with a Wii Remote on a TV screen. It’s messy from the start and it’s not at all how you’d like to play Between us, but at least it works to some extent.
I have among us working on the Nintendo Wii. from r / AmongUs
In an explanation provided in the comments of the message, Redditor BurritoSOFTWARE, the user responsible for this project, gave some ideas on how it was.
“My Wii and PC are connected to my router with 2 Ethernet adapters,” the user said. “Then, I used the WiiVNC server and TightVNC to stream between us from my PC to my Wii. This is not practical or anything, rather a POC. It is also very slow, even with cable connectors.
The user added in a later edition that he pressed the “2” button on the Wii Remote to bring up the on-screen keyboard.
To simplify the explanation, other users of the comments easily explained that the person was basically using software to transmit Between us from the PC to the Wii, which explains why the Wii remote controls a mouse pointer on the screen. This means that the PC is technically working Between us which is then transmitted to the Wii, but given how the console is over a decade old, it’s probably as close as we can see Between us running on the Wii.
With Between us already on Nintendo Switch and apparently on the Wii as well, the next appearance of the console to wait is the date when it will arrive on Xbox consoles next year. We don’t yet have an exact release date for the Xbox version, but we do know that it will be included in the Xbox Game Pass just when it launches into the Xbox console family.