VD-W2 Wii VGA cable

[Lyris]

In fairness, that's the correct way of handling it, and works great for DC too.

Oh totally, I wasn't denying that. What I meant was that they won't apply their usual Sharpening/selective colour enhancing/'enhancements' that most TVs do to video signals.

[Volition]

Will this cable work with UK machines? As it says only Japan and US machines on the website.....anyone know?

[FreelancePolice]

I've ordered one of theses and want to know if my NTSC wii VC games will output ok on my monitor?

[fuse]

Doesn't seem to be much in the way of answers going about here so I'll post my experience of one of these - they're ace. Got one for my NTSC-J Wii, connected to a 24" Samsung WS Monitor and it looks absolutely lovely. No problem with any Wii or VC games. Not tried GC but am under the impression most if not all games will support progressive, and therefore work.

[Lyris]

Got any idea of how it compares to the Component output on an HDTV?

[fuse]

Afraid not, no component leads to test with. Presumably that'll also be fairly dependent on the HDTV it's going to and anything it does anything to either signal? I'm sure someone else had some pictures posted in another thread though (do believe it was Mr Fee)

[andrewfee]

I don't have any pictures comparing to component, but I'm guessing that it will look better on the majority of HDTVs, as they tend to mess around with 480p signals quite a bit, and VGA will bypass that.

Even just getting rid of overscan makes a difference to how sharp things look at that low resolution.

[FreelancePolice]

fuse, how do the VC games look?

a brief round up of each system would be absolutely grand

[fuse]

IMO (not an expert opinion mind you) they look absolutely fine.

Games-wise I currently have Contra Spirits, Super Castlevania IV, Devil Crash, Twinbee, Treasure Hunter G, Bare Knuckle, and Assaults Suit Valken. So, only three consoles worth. Can take screenshots of them in action if you want?

[FreelancePolice]

All my games are nes, snes and n64 atm. Ta for the offer but your word is good enough for me
It shipped today any idea of time to getting it?

[Kit]

Mine arrived after about a week - think I had to sign for it as well.

Picture quality is pretty good though I’m not sure if it's down to my new monitor or the cable. I’ve got some pics of it knocking about somewhere, I’ll put them up if I can find them.

[FreelancePolice]

VC stuff please

[andrewfee]

I have to give my CRT some time to warm up (20-30 minutes!) but I'll try to get pics for you after that.

[andrewfee]

Some random VC pics:







Genesis stuff tends to look the best, as it's unfiltered, all the other systems have various issues. (SNES is filtered, N64/NES look really dull, TG-16 is heavily filtered etc)

Any lines on the pictures are caused by my camera, not the cable/screen.

EDIT: Re-uploading the pics now. Forgot that Lightroom automatically does a bad job of sharpening the pics when exporting which make them look a bit worse. These ones haven't been straightened though.
EDIT2: Done.

[VR46]

Is this still the best Wii VGA solution ? been spoilt with the 360 VGA & PS3 DVI goodness on my lovely Samsung monitor so need something similar for the Wii, either that or cancel our satellite TV subscription to stop the wife and kids hogging the LCD

Thanks.