Among us made its console debut earlier this month, coming to the Nintendo Switch, but it looks like it’s not the only Nintendo console the game will run on. With the right setup, someone managed to make the game run on the Nintendo Wii, although of course it doesn’t run very well on the platform and it’s really just proof that the idea works better than anything else. The user who did this shared a video of the project for Among us community to see along with an explanation of how things were done.
You can check out the video below that shows Among us being controlled with a Wii remote on a TV screen. He’s agitated from the start and it’s not at all like someone wants to play Among us, but it works at least to some extent.
We worked among ourselves on the Nintendo Wii. from r / AmongUs
In an explanation provided in the comments of the post, Redditor BurritoSOFTWARE, the user responsible for this project, gave some information about how it came to be.
“My Wii and PC are connected to my router with 2 ethernet adapters,” said the user. “Then we used WiiVNC and TightVNC Server to stream PCs to Wii. This is not practical or else, rather a POC. It is also very slow, even with cable connections. “
The user added in a later edition that he presses the “2” button on the Wii remote to display the on-screen keyboard.
To simplify the explanation, other users in the comments easily explained that the person actually used the software to stream. Among us from PC to Wii which explains why the Wii remote controls a mouse pointer on the screen. This means that, technically, the PC is running Among us which is then streamed to the Wii, but given how the console is over a decade old, this is probably as close as we get to see Among us running on Wii.
With Among us already on the Nintendo Switch and apparently on the Wii, to some extent, the next release of the console we have to wait for is the date when the Xbox consoles will come next year. We don’t have an exact release date for the Xbox version yet, but we know that it will be included in the Xbox Game Pass right when it is released on the Xbox console family.