This is a list of released video games for the Wii which allow use of the

Wii Remote The Wii Remote, also known colloquially as the Wiimote, is the primary game controller for Nintendo's Wii home video game console. An essential capability of the Wii Remote is its motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with ...

expansion Classic Controller/Classic Controller Pro and/or

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. This list does not include games released on

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as the

Classic Controller The is a game controller produced by Nintendo for the Wii home video game console. While it later featured some compatibility with the Wii U console, the controller was ultimately succeeded by the Wii U Pro Controller. In April 2014, Nintendo d ...

and

can also be used for all Virtual Console games, with the exception of some

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games. Many of the games on this list are

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s or sequels of prior generation games, especially ones released for the

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itself, or games that were concurrently released on or ported to

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(

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) and

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(

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) consoles, whose primary controllers are typical modern twin-stick

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s. Some Wii games on this list support traditional controls because they do not utilize the system's signature

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at all. While all Wii models and the Wii U support the Classic Controller, only the original model released in 2006 (RVL-001) supports the GameCube controller because it contains four built-in GameCube controller ports as part of its

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with GameCube games and accessories, a feature that was dropped from future models such the

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and the

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. The

Wii U The Wii U ( ) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo as the successor to the Wii. Released in late 2012, it is the first eighth-generation video game console and competed with Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4. The W ...

generally does not support the GameCube controller, with only one game, ''

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'', allowing it to be used as a valid control setup via a special external

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peripheral that provides four ports for the said controller. No other Wii U software, including previously released Wii and

titles playable on that system that support such controller, are allowed to utilize that peripheral. The emulator Dolphin does not require Wii input devices including the Classic Controller. For example, '' New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' does not support the Classic Controller for the Wii hardware console, but the game can be played with any gamepad from Dolphin.

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WiiWare

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(discontinued) games if WiiWare pressed ≠ open

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Wii games with traditional control schemes

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