Wii Emulator Gives Peek at HD Wii Graphics
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: nintendo, wii, hd, emulator, gamecube | Themes: Digital Entertainment
Want to see the Wii in high-def?
Do you adore the high-definition picture from your HDTV? It certainly looks glorious when paired with the right source. Sadly, the Wii isn’t one such source. With it being confined strictly in the land of standard definition, Wii owners with HDTVs just have to live with the blurry, undefined visuals.
What if, just for a moment, we could taste what the Wii would be in high-def? Thanks to emulation, we can.
YouTube user renebarahona has posted a number of videos on his channel offering captures of Wii games running in high-definition. Of course, even the highest quality of YouTube videos isn’t able to faithfully convey the increase in quality thanks to the bump in resolution.
Through the use of a powerful PC and the Dolphin emulation software, gamers can load their legally owned Wii and GameCube game data for play at increased resolutions. While textures and other art assets won’t change, the bump in resolution makes everything look of a higher quality.
System requirements to obtain results similar to his are steep, with at least a 3 GHz dual core processor and an 8xxx-series GeForce or 3xxxx-series Radeon.
Check out renebarahona’s YouTube for more, including directions on how to load the emulator yourself.
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Software that comes with a controller in HD still doesn't make it a real games.
And where's my apple news?
wii emulator, wait till the lawyers hear about this... download it while you can...
Technically the Wii supports Enhanced Definition-- 480p, which is double the standard def 480i -- not HD, but still better than SD.
Still looks like shit even in 720P
April fools all
lol not april fools, go get the emulator yourelf. it even does antialantialiasing
Not AF, Dolphins been worked on for a while now. And for the record, Emulation is perfectly legal, provided you own the software. Now, downloading games/BIOS, thats clearly illegial.
Not AF, Dolphins been worked on for a while now. And for the record, Emulation is perfectly legal, provided you own the software. Now, downloading games/BIOS, that's clearly illegialbusiness related.
I wonder what the possibilities are of incorporating HD upconversion from the WII the way some DVD and BluRay drives can do? If it is done propertly it seems to work pretty well. Perhaps Nintendo should consider offering this as an upgrade or built in feature for the Wii in the future.
I've used Dolphin when it was just a GCN emulator. Then I got a video card that did much better video capture.
nintendo just made the wii sd slot, limited to 2gb sd format, fully functionally with the newer standard sdhc (6gb maxed) with just by a patch.
like jkeel said, they should have the option to allow even 720p via software. the wii components cables are able to run 720p fine.
Pssh. I'm playing PS1 games at Full HD resolution. Old news.
Seriously though. Dolphin's emulation isn't perfect. But good enough to set very beautiful Full HD screenshots of some Wii games.
I'm waiting to try dolphin out. I want to see what my computer can do with it. Just wish the PC would read wii discs.
Nothing new!
You can even emulate snes etc on higher resolutions (though doesn't mean the game will necessarily look better.
What about running this on a 2Ghz core2duo and an ATI radeon 4780? Wouldn't that reduce cpu a bit?
Pssh. I'm playing PS1 games at Full HD resolution.
I've been playing PS2 games at 1920x1200 for a while now. Great with a wireless Dualshock 3 on my PC. Although some games have issues with the aspect ratio, and some I can't even get to play at resolutions that high.
they should have the option to allow even 720p via software. the wii components cables are able to run 720p fine.
The Wii doesn't have the graphical power to output at 720p, at least now without cutting back to PS1 graphics.
It's impossible for the Wii to output 720p or above in its current state. It's a physical limitation of the framebuffer. It just isn't large enough to store the raw data required.