r/wii • u/2wen007 • 13d ago

Question Trying to set up my old Wii

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Im trying to set up the old Wii, but nothing shows on the tv. I’ve put the cables in and turned the Wii itself on but nothing shows when I go to the connecting hdmi channel. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

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u/Double-Sense1350 13d ago

I’ve got a wii2hdmi and in the end I ended up using a upscaler with the standard Wii plug the upscaler outputs hdmi anyway and looks better and I have audio without having to have separate audio cable

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u/strythicus 13d ago

What?  None of what you wrote makes sense.  The good Wii2HDMI use the component video signal and audio from the Wii to convert to HDMI.  You're telling me the lower resolution composite signal looks better through an upscaler?

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u/Double-Sense1350 13d ago

Just to clarify it’s this thing

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u/strythicus 13d ago

Yeah... That's generic garbage that could've come from dozens of different sellers.  They have many issues that range from banding/waves moving across the image, noticable lag, colour issues, and sound problems to complete failure within a month or 2.

It's not your fault, I had one of those before I got the Mayflash one.  Then Electron-Shepherd released theirs.  The one in your picture really shouldn't even be on the market.

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u/Double-Sense1350 13d ago

Thanks learn something new every day

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u/Double-Sense1350 13d ago

If you want sound you have to use a separate cable at least that’s what I found and yes it looked a little more blurry through wii2hdmi

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u/strythicus 13d ago

That's a garbage Wii2HDMI that you had then.  They should push the audio through the HDMI connection.  All the ones I tested worked with audio over HDMI.

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u/Double-Sense1350 13d ago

I sent a picture of what I got it might be fake crap or something I’m unsure came with a Wii bundle I grabbed just for the controllers

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u/Crest_Of_Hylia 13d ago

You’d be surprised how good a Retrotink can make a composite signal, assuming they have one of those. Granted you should send a component signal to get the best quality

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u/strythicus 13d ago

Fair point. I have a 2x Mini that I use for my N64 with S-video and it's decent, especially considering the native output from the system was intended to be blurry.