Everyone's talking about Wii vs NGC component cables, but how does a Wii U's downscaled HDMI compare?

>>11887871 (OP)
Wii U can't do 240p you'll be stuck playing everything in 480i over AV out. Should be just as good as wii/gc for wii and GC games but worse for emulating older games that look better with 240p

>Wii U downscaled HDMI
you don't need to do that, the Wii U can output analog video.

>>11887871 (OP)

This looks pretty comfy to me. If it werks, it werks.

Looks fine to me
120 seconds Please wait a while before making a post to this dead site because reasons

>>11887906
Someone cleared their good boy cookies. You need to be easier to identify and track then you won't get the timer.

>>11887871 (OP)
What gaem is this?

>>11887992
chrono trigger, the DS version specifically

>>11887998
this man has the perfect chrono teigger setup then. the best version on a crt with a second screen.

>>11887871 (OP)
can I make this a wii U appreciation thread rq? I really love it for my kids, I keep it in the car so my kids can play game and it has been so nice. its so intuitve for them to use and its super easy for me to add games to.

>>11888284
You can't really. Even wii is against the rules and will get your posts deleted sometimes.

>>11888243
Not really since the ds had a screen with a resolution below 240p.

>>11888435
No one cares at <3"

>>11888284
>>11888294
You can if you talk about it strictly as an emulation box, no different from talking about retropie or mister or whatever. You just can't talk about its own native games.

>>11887871 (OP)
Pretty sure Wii is better for Gamecube

I use a Wii2HDMI adapter and it adds no lag(tested) and the image looks fantastic (far better than component PS2 with Retrotink)

Just a shame the controller sucks, but I think there is a way to configure third party USB/BT controllers with homebrew

>>11888456
Nah I care.

>>11887871 (OP)
very neat way to play this game, op. tactics A2 would probably be pretty fun on this set up.

>>11888467
thats what I meant when I mentioned it. Its not the best by any means but it is easy, simple, and good enough. My kids love playing sonic adventure and SOTN and shit on the way to school.

>>11887871 (OP)
What if you just didn’t make your dumb ass life more complicated than it needs to be?

Wii U is such a fucking cash money hacked console honestly.

>Box console so you don't need tiny expensive micro SDs or mobile capable SSD, can run the entire operation off a cheap 60 dollar 2TB hard drive+Y cable
>Runs 3 consoles natively
>Yet can take that all and run it in a handheld form factor
My only real wish is that Retroarch on WiiU had an N64 core and maybe Saturn. I don't think Dreamcast would be possible, but the other two definitely are with how well PS1 runs

>>11887871 (OP)
The image quality is really bad because the Wii U's vWii mode (virtual Wii) always renders bilinearly upscaled to 1080p, no matter your actual display. This means playing the Wii U does these steps when playing GameCube games on your CRT:
>draw 480p GameCube image
>bilinearly upscale it to 1080p
>then bilinearly downscale it to 480p
An Anon here once posted comparisons and the results were crap. Even through composite the difference is noticeable.

>>11887871 (OP)
The image quality is really bad because the Wii U's vWii mode (virtual Wii) always renders bilinearly upscaled to 1080p, no matter your actual display. This means the Wii U does these steps when playing GameCube games on your CRT:
>draw 480p GameCube image
>bilinearly upscale it to 1080p
>then bilinearly downscale it to 480p
An Anon here once posted comparisons and the results were crap. Even through composite the difference is noticeable.

>>11887871 (OP)
>Everyone's talking about Wii vs NGC component cables
Wii's composite is actually better than GameCube's, that's all that matters.

>>11888710
Wii Composite and S-Video are fantastic.

>>11887871 (OP)
Wii U is Vita tier. It's shit that midwits think is le ultimate console capable of condensing several generations of games into one neat unit, but it doesn't do it very well. It's a jack of all trades and master of none with a retarded proto-tablet controller and stupid name. Also, top lel at that picture and any soiboy who thinks that's a kino setup.
>Sony meme monitor
>Temu sidetable made exclusively for manlets
>Devices are a mish mash of black, grey, light grey, brown, silver, yellowed white, and cream
>Some spindle of Wal-Mart CDs that the fag who took the picture undoubtedly uses for burned DC games because he spent his $1500 covid check on the used consoles and cuck shelf
>has a Wii U but still has a Wii for gud boi points
>$25 logitech PC speakers hooked up as if this will greatly enhance the audio experience
>Wii U pad displayed prominently with soibirds flanking the left and right, and some dumb fuckoff aftermarket grey PS controller in the back, complete with conical nipples for analog sticks
Disgusting, though I'm sure some of the redditors on here will jizz over it. If you're a poorfag and you want a setup that isn't gay and retarded, just get a humble 20" CRT, a rolling metal cart, and a Wii and PS2 with original hookups, and a handful of games you actually care about playing.

>>11888671
>Wii U is such a fucking cash money hacked console honestly
It isn't. It does everything extremely poorly. Not a single thing runs well natively on it besides Wii U games, which have almost all been ported to Switch. Even its biggest benefit, a roundabout way to play DS games between the TV and gamepad, can't even run most of the ones Nintendo made available for purchase very well.
>but it works
If you want to run pre-Wii Nintendo console games then you'd be better off just buying some chink handheld.
Until someone can figure out a way to just break the whole thing wide open with how it interprets shit then literally anything else is a better option.

>>11888772
>>11888804
i was going to refute your post point by point but screw that. go fuck yourself, old fart

>>11888845
You're replying to two different people, and also, you're mad. Not a good look. No, not a good look at all.

>>11887871 (OP)
>Wii U's downscaled HDMI
Why?

>>11888772
H-hey guys, anon here again.... I'm sorry. I didn't mean it..... You can enjoy your Wii U setup, just don't beat me up again... You're so cruel.....

>>11888772
OP on suicide watch

>>11888772
I did feel the way Vita owners did when I was gaming on it during its time. It's the only system I've ever owned where I can confidently say that every game I spent money on I enjoyed a lot and am proud to have in my collection. If it's library wasn't ported off its system and it still had working online I'd say it'd be worth to add it to your console line up. Still had the best version of Mario Kart for online play and the controller is very lag free unlike the Switch controllers which didn't even connect to the console properly.

>>11887871 (OP)
For DS games like picrel, can't be beat. Gamepad also makes gba and below feel good too. N64 and PS1 is where it gets tricky. Not64 runs better, but only wii64 supports the gamepad. I got decently far in Parappa 1, better than duckststion on my pc not very scientific I know. Don't let the 240p autists get you down. CRT is CRT, and the libraries available are huge. It's totally worth at least giving a try.

Now the tricky part is aspect ratios. Like >>11887892 said just use the Wii composite cables on the back. Now the Wii U has a 4:3 mode which just adds black bars to the top, otherwise the image will be stretched taller on 16:9 mode. Now if you wanna do vc injects for snes and nes etc, you want to use 4:3 mode, same for doing anything on the vwii. But realistically you're gonna wanna use wii u retroarch. And if you do, you gotta use 16:9 mode to get rid of the top bars , scale the arrows to touch the sides of the screen. Then in RetroArch set the display to (widescreen stretched) it should look stretched wide on the gamepad, but normal 4:3 on the tv. Also never use n64 vc injects on the wii u, it sucks, completely letterboxed and full of input lag.

Did I mention all the earliy to mid 2010s indie pixelshit that goes kinda hard on a CRT? Wind waker HD in 480i is peak

>>11888772
Based and redpilled post.

>>11890191
The Wii U was such a flop, I’d love to hack one just because and try out retro games on it just because but people are still charging over 100 for it used. Does the Japanese version come region free like the n64, because those are much cheaper?

>>11888804
Holy retarded and coping.

It runs GameCube and Wii natively. The only incompatibilities are some hardware gimmicks like GBA linking and GameCube mics but everything that utilizes normal controllers is 100% perfect and playable on the gamepad, you can even link Phantasy Star online up to private servers on the damn thing.
If nothing else, running 2 consoles back natively, while also in a handheld format, is an excellent niche that only WiiU has access to. Meaning even in a perfect idort set up where I have a GTX 9080 and CFW for rom loading on every device in history, I would still be using my WiiU to play 3 consoles.
It also has the benefit of achieving 2TBs of storage inexpensively compared to a dedicated handheld because I can just slap a Seagate hard drive on a y cable.

As far as everything else goes, the only notably bad area is N64 with a ton of incompatibilities.
GBA, NES, and SNES all work 90% fine injected and the other 10% all work fine in Retroarch. Gameboy/Color, Neo Geo CD, and PlayStation 1 among others like MAME work perfectly in WiiU Retroarch as well.
DS is an especially strong area because a WiiU perfectly replicates the control scheme with its gamepad and stylus, meaning it's the only place besides a DS itself that's worth playing the more touch focused games like Kirby Canvas Curse
It's got a small and weird but viable selection of multiplats.
And 90 of the WiiU games are net neutral or strictly better on WiiU. Most like Tropical Freeze and 3D World have identical main games and simply add a new mode. Games like Pikmin 3 and Xenoblade X play better because they were designed around the gamepad in the first place. And games like Bayonetta 2 just outright perform better and look nicer than their Switch counterparts. It's really only games like Fast RMX and Captain Toad that add actual new main game content that have an edge on Switch

>>11890317
Nope it is very much region locked and that is why they are cheaper. Once hacked it wouldn't really matter.

>>11890368
Well if they are as easy to hack as the Wii…. May be worth it

>>11890353
>you can even link Phantasy Star online up to private servers on the damn thing.
If true: why nobody plays that shit nowdays? there are like... 3 faggots playing at this very moment. I've read a lot of that PSO non sense on NGC and SDC threads but as a matter of fact nobody plays it nowdays.

>>11890620
There are less and less millennials every year, you can't create new ones. And the older they get, the less they'll like new experiences

>>11890620
I imagine anyone playing PSO "seriously" at this point is using the the Blue Burst PC client

>>11890472
its more complicated to hack than the wii, but you still only need an sd card and internet connection, so its fine

>>11890651
Oldest millenial will be 30 in 2 years from now. By then, anytime someone says "zoomer" you'll know its old age cope and you may as well say "young people" instead

>>11891438
Oldest millennials are turning 40, moron.

>>11889849
I'm with you, I love my wii u and it had a solid library. Haters gonna hate.

>>11891438
Did you mean youngest, retard?

>>11891458
1980 is generally considered the start of that generation

>>11890353
>It runs GameCube and Wii natively.
I don't think you understand what natively means.
It can run Gamecube and Wii because it contains the architecture, but it's not native.
Let me know when you can run them without softmodding Wii mode with vWii and then you can talk about shit running native.
Also
>injections
555comeonnow.jpg

>>11892368
You seem to be confused. Needing to softmod has nothing to do with the fact that wii games are played natively on wii u. Might want to read up on things before looking so stupid.

>>11892375
>I'm just pretending to be retarded
Literally says Game Cube right there in the post too bruh

>>11892368
>but it's not native.
Native just means it uses the architecture anon

>>11892382
It plays gamecube natively as well "bruh"

>>11887871 (OP)
>OEM slave

>>11890191
>recommending anyone to use the composhit cables

>>11892441
Maybe he meant component

>>11892441
I was going to write an elaborate retort, but then I decided I would rather tell you to kill yourself.

>>11892368
AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

FUCKING RETARD

>>11890651
>>11890667
I mean, I geddit, but why faggots pitch PSO like a feature on Dreamcast or Wii/Wii U? Nobody plays that shit on console and the faggots that do play it are on PC.

>>11893264
It was really more a demonstration of the sheer compatibility the WiiU has with GameCube

Literally only GBA Link/mic games don't work to my knowledge. Even the DK bongos can connect to WiiU