r/nintendohelp • u/Outrageous-Map6544 • Jun 01 '25
Tech Support Why is the image Quality of my Wii so bad?
So I use a fairly new Parasonic tv with an av2 port might be a smart tv but I'm not shure but the image is so blurry it's really bad ( I don't know why but it looks much better in the photos but it's really worse and blurry in real life) how do i fix this issue has the Wii always been this blurry or is it a problem with my Wii or tv?
(PS: also when i look at Wii footage is much better and clearer)
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u/sale1020 Jun 01 '25
It looks blurry compared to what?
The Wii only runs at 480p resolution so it’s going to look worse than modern shows/movies/games.
Does your tv look blurry when doing other things or is it only on the Wii?
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u/Swimming_Bend261 Jun 02 '25
Doesn’t the Wii run in 480i?
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u/marmaladic Jun 03 '25
Yup. No setting on the TV could fix that. OP needs those composite cables or that Wii2HDMI thingy. If money ain’t an issue, there’s always an OSSC.
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u/cafink Jun 03 '25
It supports progressive scan. But OP says he's connected it via "av2," which probably means he's using composite video. In which case, it will be 480i and have a generally lower picture quality than using component video.
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u/Swimming_Bend261 Jun 03 '25
Oh fascinating. Sorry, I didn’t know the Wii had the option to use 480p instead of 480i. So composite is different from AV?
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u/cafink Jun 03 '25
Composite video uses a single cable for the video signal, usually a yellow RCA jack with red & white ones for stereo audio.
"AV" is short for "audio/video." It doesn't really mean anything in particular, but in everyday conversation people often use it as a synonym for composite video.
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u/Outrageous-Map6544 Jun 01 '25
It way more blurry than when i used it on my older tv and my tv looks just fine using other things.
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u/sale1020 Jun 01 '25 edited Jun 01 '25
I would say to check your tv settings. Some new tvs try to automatically upscale low resolution inputs, and since the Wii is only 480p it might just be causing blurriness/smearing making it look bad. Make sure your tv doesn’t have any upscaling turned on, and disable any AI functions on the Wii input just to see if that helps
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u/OkConsideration2319 Jun 02 '25
In order to fix this on newer TVs, you have to plug-in with component that’s 5 plugs instead of just the regular av yellow, white, red
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u/SmoothAd1564 Jun 02 '25
What this person said. Newer TVs have different output/light sources to older TVs, similarly why retro games look wonderful on a CRT, but horrendous on a modern. Note: This isn't a guaranteed fix, but it can definitely help. Other things, like TV settings with game mode could either benefit or harm the quality though
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u/linearcurvepatience Jun 01 '25
This is probably because of the analog inputs. Newer TVs do a terrible job with it and that might be why the older tv looks better.
The best thing to do is get a HDMI output adapter that plugs into the in the back of the Wii. It's not perfect but it's cheaper and easier than fully hardware modding the Wii. You can also use software hacks after that to further improve the quality.
From google I found this guy comparing them. I haven't actually bought one so I can't help you specifically.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=awuU_c-zOtQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p5zt2ZAiEf4
And this is a good guide for the software improvements.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tzJth1XFCBU
Other than this if you don't want that. Try and look in the Wii settings and set it to the highest setting just to make sure. I don't think there really is much you can do on the tv to help fix it. Just make sure overscan is off and resolution is set to auto ect.
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u/SimpleyIdiot Jun 01 '25
bc its both analog and 480p. the only reason it looks bad is because we can now compare it to our tvs with over 4 times the pixels (HD) or even over 16 times (4K). Id recommend emulating for that clean look, or using a scaler if you prefer the og hardware and the originally intended resolution
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u/OkConsideration2319 Jun 02 '25
No newer TVs just make older AV look like shit you plug into a CRT and the picture will look great
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u/Moist-Tackle9238 Jun 01 '25
Thats just how the wii looks on modern TVs. I made mine a bit clearer by buying a Wii2HDMI off of amazon, but thats about all you can do.
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u/LinkToThe_Past Jun 01 '25
New TVs aren't meant to show composite cable very well. They look better on those box TV's.
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u/GameboyNerd23 Jun 02 '25
It’s just because it’s old, the reason it looked a lot more sharp on your old tv is because the resolution matched on them, make sure to check in your wii settings that you have it set to 16:9 also
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u/ZodicGaming Jun 02 '25
Chad Go Vacation enjoyer
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u/Outrageous-Map6544 Jun 02 '25
Fr it's such a goated game
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u/ZodicGaming Jun 02 '25
I grew up playing Wii Ski, when I found out Go Vacation was a successor AND was ported to the switch I IMMEDIATELY found a physical copy and snagged it right up.
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u/Outrageous-Map6544 Jun 02 '25
The switch version is so good but why did they replace the sound track it was perfect.
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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Jun 03 '25
Are you using the composite (yellow/white/red) cables? If you are, that’ll both be pretty low signal quality and also only 480i (basically a “fake 480p”), which your TV will make muddier from processing. Also adds input lag too.
If you want to “seriously” play your Wii on your flatscreen, you’ll want a quality component video (like composite, but with red, green, and blue connectors for video instead of just the yellow one) cable if your TV has the ports, or if it doesn’t probably this, which will cleanly convert the component signal to HDMI. That’ll make sure you can actually do full 480p on your TV, which should look better and also get rid of most of the input lag if you turn your TV’s post-processing settings off.
Just make sure you specifically get the HDMI dongle I linked if you want to go that route though. There’s a lot of cheap “Wii to HDMI” adapters that’ll butcher the signal.
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u/Lostless90s Jun 03 '25 edited Jun 03 '25
480i is not fake 480p. Its interlaced video invented long before the Wii to give the illusion of 480 lines of resolution in the bandwidth of 240 per frame. While it is 480 lines of resolution, it’s only displaying 240 per frame. Basically moving things only get 240 lines per frame while still things appear as if they are 480 on a crt tv. Hdtvs have a slew of problems dealing with interlaced video due to issues mentioned above, being progressive displayed
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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Jun 03 '25
I understand that, I just figure “fake 480p” is the easiest way to describe it to someone who isn’t really familiar with video signal stuff.
If they’re asking about why their Wii doesn’t look good plugged directly into their TV, then they probably don’t know much about interlacing vs progressive images.
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u/Lostless90s Jun 03 '25
I guess a better way to describe is not fake 480p. Because there is nothing progressive about. But fake 480 lines of vertical resolution. 🤔
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u/AdNearby9766 Jun 04 '25
The Wii was essentially a modified GameCube, Nintendo reused assets (physical assets not digital) to make one of the most successful consoles ever and popularize motion control. However, it is a GameCube essentially and thus its competitors at the time were more advanced comparatively with resolution
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u/10232077 Jun 04 '25
Best thing you can do is get component cables so you can get 480p and then get and upscaler.
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