Nintendo Wii Fanboy

I generally enjoy exercise, but I generally enjoy winning, too. If WiiFit has any sort of competitive activity, I'll find some way to cheat to win!

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Wii Fit is smarter than World Class Track Meet. It can see into your soul, so it will know if you're cheating.

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I never hit the pad with my hands, although I did use the jump off the mat to extend my jump. My dad wasn't amused and could usually beat me. So I have no clue if I would or not.

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Actually, due to the ability to check your weight and thus also the amount of force applied to the pad, you would not be able to cheat by for example using your hands to run.

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I would not cheat. Since the game tracks your progress over a period of time, I want to see my real results, not inflated numbers. Besides, I'm more interested in seeing how I stack against myself over a period of time or my family than I am against faceless internet cheaters.

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if you cheat you're only cheating yourself...

but seriously, wii fit sounds more like an exercise tool than a game... i'm not sure what good cheating would do.

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Agreed with Travis; you're only cheating yourself.

Plus Wiifit Balance Board seems smarter anyway

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Yeah the board not only tracks weight, but center of gravity also. There's almost no way to cheat.

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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.

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I'm with Donald on that - since I actually got good at games (about when I hit 13), I don't bother to cheat at them unless it's actually fun, or better yet, a real challenge. I'm more likely to cheat at WiiFit the more difficult they make it. Just because.
Actually, if anyone's played the english version of Princess Maker 3, no-one (online, anyway) knows how to actually achieve the Hero endings without using the "pick an ending" cheat. I hacked the save files with a hex editor to try trial and error, and I never found out.
Incidentally, I completely ruined the game for myself, and even though it was half a year ago, I'll never be able to play it as it was intended (knowing exactly what affects which stats and precisely what each stat does, etc) but I still feel it was a worthy sacrifice for a noble cause.

Of course, in regards to World Class Track Meet, I don't remember whether I cheated on that, but I spent most of that energy figuring out how to even complete the Crab Walk in Super Team Games. I eventually figured why I would only take one step and stop.
You had to turn and use a different button for your left foot. So you were standing sideways.

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You could actually make the pad think that you were insanely fast if you had three people on it at once. Since it didn't matter if you ran on the front, middle, or back set of dots, if you put one person on each it would count every person's steps a if one person was doing all of them. My brother, sister, and I were a world class sprinter.

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With some of those old games you just had to cheat. Remember Track and Field 2? The amount of button mashing required to beat some of the events in that game was beyond normal human capacity. And that was after you'd already button mashed your way through events prior. What a workout. Yay for rapid fire.

But as far as WiiFit, since it actually seems to measure weight, it would be a lot harder to fool in running events by using your hands, and I think they could make a jump around trial game to see how long it realistically takes you to jump.

Games have come a long way since the power pad. With DDR, many people can play faster with their feet than I can with my fingers.

I know this device with the wiimote has a ton of possibilities beyond WiiFit though and my non-gameing friends I've talked to that bought a Wii as their first game system since the Atari (mostly for the sports games) are all over this one.

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I wanna see the Balance Board used optionally as foot pedals for Mario Kart.

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