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[fijim]

Amazon has a whole plethora of these things, and they all look like they are exactly the same. But I am wondering if some are better than others.

I have one that looks like this:

While it does pass the signal through HDMI. It does not appear to upscale it to 720p. It says it can do 720p or 1080p, yet I do not see a way to actually select the resolution. I just seem to get a 480p signal, and it is stuck in a 4:3 box, even if the Wii is set to 16:9.

I have this connected to a Sony receiver which then passes the signal to a Mitsubishi Projector. So there is no way to "force" it to go to widescreen like you can with a TV. This just displays whatever signal it gets.

 

[super-famicom]

Probably the XRGB-mini Framemeister. Kinda pricey, though. It works great with older consoles as well; there's a GAF thread dedicated to this and other upscalers :http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=630556

 

[Borman]

The Wii's signal is always 4:3, so that's no surprise. Stretch it with your TV.

 

[chaosblade]

The Wii's signal is always 4:3, so that's no surprise. Stretch it with your TV.

If you mean let the TV display the anamorphic widescreen (which is pretty common among Wii games?) that's fine, but stretching 4:3 content is noooooo!

Honestly a Wii U does a pretty good job with Wii games, and it's cheaper than buying a good dedicated scaler. You would be out of luck for GC games without homebrew though.


And OP, are you sure are there aren't any options on the receiver for handling 480p content? Perhaps not if it is a newer one with no SD inputs.

 

[Neff]

Wii U is the best, if most expensive answer.

Failing that, I have the Neoya Wii2HDMI upscaler, and it was by far the best picture quality I was able to get out of a standard Wii.

 

[Naminator]

I believe it's called Dolphin?

 

[sfried]

You can either use a WiiU, or a Wii2HDMI adapter (the real one, not the one pictured by OP).

 

[fijim]

Yeah, not spending $300 to upscale Wii games.

So this thing does have a little pin hole switch to change between 720p and 1080p. It appears to work b/c if I switch it my 720p projector cannot display the 1080p signal.

So it does appear to be up-scaling to 720p, however the image is still 4:3 waiting for your TV to stretch it.

I'll keep messing with the projector to see if I can get it to stretch the signal.

 

[Dance Inferno]

I believe it's called Dolphin?

Heh.

 

[Rich!]

Probably the XRGB-mini Framemeister. Kinda pricey, though. It works great with older consoles as well; there's a GAF thread dedicated to this and other upscalers :http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=630556

The Wii's 16:9 480p image looks like shit through my framemeister.

Wii U is by far the best native hardware option for both Wii and Gamecube games imo.

 

[DylanTackoor]

I believe it's called Dolphin?

lol

 

[Dereck]

Wii U

 

[Majine]

Wii U

Silly boutdown, Wii U is not an HDMI upscaler, it's a tablet addon.

 

[Jamix012]

If you have a component input on your TV you'll always be better using that than one of these. Otherwise XRGB and other competent upscalers are a good option, if not pricey.

 

[fernoca]

Amazon has a whole plethora of these things, and they all look like they are exactly the same. But I am wondering if some are better than others.

I have one that looks like this:

While it does pass the signal through HDMI. It does not appear to upscale it to 720p. It says it can do 720p or 1080p, yet I do not see a way to actually select the resolution. I just seem to get a 480p signal, and it is stuck in a 4:3 box, even if the Wii is set to 16:9.

I have this connected to a Sony receiver which then passes the signal to a Mitsubishi Projector. So there is no way to "force" it to go to widescreen like you can with a TV. This just displays whatever signal it gets.

This ones usually has a small-ass butoon somewhere that you have to press with a toothpick or something lime that to be able to select resolution.

If yours doesn't, then it was one of the "clones of clones" that didn't allowed to output to (up to) 1080p.

I had one (in black), it is a good alternative to output Wii through HDMI and close to what the Wii U does with Wii games.

 

[ReBurn]

There's a little button in that hole. After it is plugged in, you press that button with a paper clip or toothpick to change the output resolution. It's not usually auto detecting on these cheap fobs.

 

[Dereck]

Silly boutdown, Wii U is not an HDMI upscaler, it's a tablet addon.

 

[Cynn]

Yeah, not spending $300 to upscale Wii games.

Yeah, well you should consider it because it's the only solution that's truly workable. A lot of cheap upscalers add input lag to their signals. Add that to the lag projectors naturally have and divide by the fact that the Wiimote depends on lag free signals or it makes gaming insufferable and you'll soon find all of the cheap work around solutions you've stacked together are pretty much a waste of time.

 

[Palom]

My Amazon history shows I bought this one, but the product on that page looks different. The box for the one I have says www.orei.com, which leads me to this page, which looks more like what I have. My Wii isn't hooked up any more, but I don't remember having any glaring issues with it. Everything displayed at 16:9 just fine.

 

[Speedwagon]

Use component cables if your TV has it. Cheap HDMI upscalers will cause a lot of input lag.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

This will do nothing to improve the Wii's image quality, unless your TV has the shittiest scaler imaginable.

 

[RetroDLC]

Buying a Wii U really is the best way to play Wii games upscaled to a HD resolution in good quality. A lot of devices add lag, even the small thumb sized ones. If you're not keen on that, buy a component cable for now, which is the best native output that the Wii can do (but not the Wii Mini, I think).

 

[JimboJones]

I bought one of those little Wii HDMI things ages ago, not expecting anything from it but I was curious and it would be handy to have the Wii going through HDMI.
Maybe I got a dud, there's loads of different ones and they all look cheap as hell, but anyway it certainly scaled the image to 720 and 1080 but unfortunately introduced blackcrush, so I just switched back to component.

 

[Borman]

If you mean let the TV display the anamorphic widescreen (which is pretty common among Wii games?) that's fine, but stretching 4:3 content is noooooo!

Honestly a Wii U does a pretty good job with Wii games, and it's cheaper than buying a good dedicated scaler. You would be out of luck for GC games without homebrew though.


And OP, are you sure are there aren't any options on the receiver for handling 480p content? Perhaps not if it is a newer one with no SD inputs.

Absolutely hah. I should have worded it better, but was on my way out. Dont stretch the 4:3 versions of course.

 

[Crownjo]

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=114&cp_id=11404&cs_id=1140401&p_id=9742&seq=1&format=2

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=108&cp_id=10830&cs_id=1083007&p_id=9997&seq=1&format=2

 

[fijim]

I found the pinhole button, and it does in fact switch between 720p and 1080p. I was able to change a setting on my projector to force 16:9 and widescreen is working correctly. I was just a moron basically.

Use component cables if your TV has it. Cheap HDMI upscalers will cause a lot of input lag.

This will do nothing to improve the Wii's image quality, unless your TV has the shittiest scaler imaginable.

I am only using this b/c I am connecting my Wii to an HDMI only receiver. I don't actually care about the upscaling so much.