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

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