@Dryden.....i would ask then, why can i play baseball backwards....i have done this with bowling and batting whilst facing away from the screen to try to explain to my family how it works, admitedly with batting it was incredibly difficult to time it correctly using a mirror (no it wasn't big enough nor in the right position for the IR lights to be seen by the remote), but it still went back to upright whenever i pointed upwards.
@Cryroakira, you can draw complicated shapes and they register fine...there is no need for the sensor bar for shape drawing....SSX Blur for instance does not use the sensor bar.
What the Wii remote detects is accelleration, you may be confusing this with speed possibly.
If for instance you put your Wii remote on a moving machine, that goes at a constant speed in a straight line, then you turned on the Wii console. it would think the remote was still.
If the Wii was turned on... and then you put the remote on a machine it would detect that it had accellerated, then it would not be able to detect anything whilst the remote is at a constant speed...however it would remember that it had accelerated and not yet decellerated to zero...so it would assume the remote was still moving at a speed.
you can draw circles or any shape where the direction changes because accelleration relates to a specific direction, if you had a machine drawing a perfect circle with a constant rotational speed, it would be able to detect it fine because the acceleration is changing all the time.
