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[DylanEno]

Could totally just be a placebo thing but I swear it looks sharper than the Wii even with component cables

 

[Business]

I'm currently playing Galaxy 2 through Wii U and it looks like crap on a 4K TV, the space skybox for example looks ridiculously bad.

 

[moltonasty]

Honestly Wii games will look terrible on an HDTV no matter what.

Framemeister or OSSC can help with the upscaling however

 

[Flintty]

I found it looked way better on U through hdmi than the stock cable on the Wii. Miles better. Sharper.

 

[PSqueak]

I could argue it makes them look worse.

Punch Out definitely looks weirder through the HDMI.

 

[SystemUser]

Digital signals are always superior to analogue.

Yes, MP3s sound better than vinyl records and the camera on the original iphone is better than 35mm.

 

[defferoo]

This is false.

Component is an analogue signal.
HDMI is digital.

Digital signals are always superior to analogue.

not necessarily... you could have a super compressed digital signal and a raw analog signal, guess which one would be better?

what's better here is what's closer and more accurate to the source. HDMI is digital and the console framebuffer is digital, so you could just do a direct lossless conversion to an HDMI signal. With component, you need to process the framebuffer and do a digital to analog conversion first. This conversion is lossy, which means HDMI basically wins by default here. (not to mention the TV needs to convert back to digital from an analog signal for display, which is also a lossy process.)

 

[Freddo]

a good recent discussion on this very topic
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=59908

Thanks for the link

 

[Vashetti]

Don't own a Wii, Wii U or any Nintendo device. But just out of curiosity:

When you play a Wii game on the Wii U that supports progressive output, does it automatically default to the superior output or do you have to force it?

 

[SystemUser]

Don't own a Wii, Wii U or any Nintendo device. But just out of curiosity:

When you play a Wii game on the Wii U that supports progressive output, does it automatically default to the superior output or do you have to force it?

I think Wii supports progressive scan natively for all games so the Wii U can output them in progressive. The Gamecube was the one where only some games had progressive scan and you usually had to hold B button at launch to trigger progressive scan mode.

 

[Vashetti]

I think Wii supports progressive scan natively for all games so the Wii U can output them in progressive. The Gamecube was the one where only some games had progressive scan and you usually had to hold B button at launch to trigger progressive scan mode.

I believe I read progressive output was stripped from several PAL games.

 

[Barrow Roll]

A good CRT that natively does 480p will often look better than Dolphin. Some assets in Wii games (like sprites and skyboxes) will often look really bad when blown up to higher resolutions. But generally, Dolphin is pretty amazing.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that native 480p CRTs (AKA EDTVs) can't display 240p content properly with scanlines. The Wii is an amazing emulation machine, so unless you have no need for it, then a 480i CRT that supports component might be a better pick. Or go with a PVM/BVM if you can afford it.

 

[Harlock]

If you want Wii games in HD, use a computer and Dolphin.

[60 FPS] Dolphin Emulator 5.0 (Ishiiruka) | Super Mario Galaxy 2 [1080p HD] | Nintendo Wii
https://youtu.be/W77Mwiit2do?t=104

 

[SystemUser]

I believe I read progressive output was stripped from several PAL games.

I don't have much experience with Wii on PAL. Do you mean that they didn't include a 576p mode or they didn't include a PAL 480p mode or both weren't included? Is 576p a thing?

 

[Vashetti]

I don't have much experience with Wii on PAL. Do you mean that they didn't include a 576p mode or they didn't include a PAL 480p mode or both weren't included? Is 576p a thing?

I think... both? I dunno!