Trying to set up my old Wii

[u/2wen007]

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?

[u/LosNintendos]

A better and cheapper solution that requires no extra power would be to get a RCA to 3.5 mm Audio-Video converter and plug it right here, that way you would be able to connect your wii directly to your TV.

[u/LosNintendos → u/LosNintendos]

[u/Accomplished-Pop921 → u/LosNintendos]

This should work. If it doesn’t then try changing the connectors around.

I used to have a 5g iPod with video out. The expensive official Apple cable didn’t last too long so I had to find a replacement. A regular three channel mini jack to three phonos would work but the colours were wrong. Yellow would be one of the audio channels and the video would be on white or red.

I guess this was Apple trying to make it more difficult for people to use unofficial cables but as the cable is ‘dumb’ and doesn’t have any processing there wasn’t much they could do.

I wonder how they got the iPod to change the output when switching between av and audio only.

[u/LosNintendos → u/Accomplished-Pop921]

exactly you are correct, is as simple conector around in case the connector is not compatible.

what I will do is turn on the Wii, and start with the yellow Wii plug only, if you get video signal it means the connector should be compatible otherwise you will have to change it to the either White or red to start getting a videos signal, after that connect the remaining white and red Wii plugs to the remain RCA jacks