Wii component cable

[Salsa Party Animal]

Should I order Nintendo's component cable from playasia as I am waiting to receive mad catz component cable from play at work.

[EJG1980]

game in debenhams in harrow had Nintendo component cables...

"had" as in they did have them but they sold out, or "had" as in you saw them in there and they may or may not have them anymore? Only five mins away from me on the train, so I may pop up there when I finish work.

PS - You didn't happen to notice how much they were did you?

[Number45]

Mine was from some guy called hot_item__shop cost 2.99 plus 12.99 p & p
he had hundreds available it looks like there are entire factories givem over to making 3rd party wii component cables at the moment.

Ah, OK. Mine was an official one though, hence the price. Wouldn't have paid over the odds for a third party one.

[ChrisF]

Does anyone have experience of both the Game own brand component cable AND the official one?
I picked up a Game brand one t'other day, and seems fine to me. Just wondered if it was worth changing to the official one?

[Lyris]

The Wii doesn't turn the flicker fixer off when in EDTV mode...?!! Wow, that's spectacularly stupid...! Did the Cube have the same problem when running 480p? I only ever ran mine 480i but I remember hearing it looked good in progressive mode.

Well, none of the games I've played have been Flicker Filtered running in 480p, but the system menus are. Maybe they'll fix it in a later system update.

Can't comment on the GameCube since it's system menus only ever showed in 480i anyway.

[Binary Defence Crimson]

My television is a Samsung LE26R41B.

With a Component lead, the Wii's graphics are still blurry and indistinct and certainly non pin-sharp.

[deded]

pardon my lack of knowledge on the subject, but are component cables for hd tellys only? i've got a pretty standard crt widescreen telly, would one of these cables make things any better?

[Ouenben]

pardon my lack of knowledge on the subject, but are component cables for hd tellys only? i've got a pretty standard crt widescreen telly, would one of these cables make things any better?

some high end CRT's have component.

on the back look for 5 inputs - Red, Blue, Green (video) and white, red (audio). If it has that then it can do Component.

[Kit]

well it was initially just gonna be black and white remember. it does make me wonder why the go on about liking the twilight when really its brighter than the light world

It?s does seem a bit odd, I?d of much preferred a toned down clearer version - I?m sure the extra Wii horsepower could of provided this.

[exZAKtly]

Has anyone found a way to play VC games via component cable? I still can't play Donkey Kong Country, and I deleted the save file and everything. It still gives me a 'mode not supported' black screen.

I guess I'll have to fire off an e-mail to Nintendo.

[Pirotic]

Isn't that a problem with your TV rather than the games? I hear the games still output at their original resolution, so your TV probably isn't expecting 320x240 or whatever resolution they run at down a component cable, thus the 'mode not supported' message generated by your set.

[Lyris]

Nah, the Virtual Consoles are scaled to the standard Wii output resolution by the Wii itself before going to the TV.

Has anyone found a way to play VC games via component cable? I still can't play Donkey Kong Country, and I deleted the save file and everything. It still gives me a 'mode not supported' black screen.

I guess I'll have to fire off an e-mail to Nintendo.

Never had this myself, but I've heard it before from people who didn't buy US consoles. Are you using a PAL Wii?

[exZAKtly]

Yes, PAL Wii. And other people have had this same problem. I'm actually going to write to Nintendo about this now.

[JamesS]

Nah, the Virtual Consoles are scaled to the standard Wii output resolution by the Wii itself before going to the TV.

PC Engine games are, but SNES, NES and I think Megadrive games output at the original systems' non-interlaced resolution.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Got my component cable at last. 4 week too late.

Shame I am too tired to try it out. I will when I finish work tomorrow.