VC - Picture issue

[djjimbob]

A little help needed.

I have my Wii setup thru my Yamaha 2700 amp via composite (nice!) and then to the telly via HDMI.

My amp is passing the signal through to the telly without deinterlacing or upscaling. The TV should be receiving in 480i or 576i, and it does display that when you change in the Wii settings.

Downloaded my first VC game yesterday - SF2. (Yes it's slow) and loaded it up to find a blank screen. Sound was fine but no picture. So I pressed the Home button and the little Wii menu pops up on screen and I can see the picutre fine, read the instructions etc etc. Go back to the game or Reset it - again the picture goes blank. Funny thing is the channel indicator on the telly which shows the resolution (480, 576 etc) displayed nothing almost as if the amp could not handle what was coming into it????

So I plugged it directly into the telly bypassing the amp and it worked fine.

I don't want to download more games just to fanny about with cables... any idea what is going on?

[Kit]

I?m in the same boat.

?Your TV?s not registering the switch to the low res frequency?s of the old games? was the answer I got from the NoE forum.

According to the fanboys; Nintendo are going to provide a fix in a future firmware update.

[djjimbob]

I've had a little think about this issue and as it's working direct to my TV I think there is a solution.

I'm guessing you can't actually pass an interlaced signal over HDMI - so the amp is still deinterlacing it put also passing a flag thru to the telly saying that it WAS a deinterlaced signal???

Therefore the Wii picture is fine cos it can handle being transmitted in Progressive but the really old consoles freak out.

I shall hook up a Composite out from my Amp to TV tonight and make sure it is outputting a true interlaced signal...

That might sort it. Will report back tomorrow.

[djjimbob]

Bingo gringo.

Used the Composite Monitor Out on my amp to output the signal without any processing and it worked fine.