New Super Mario Bros. Wii Looks Great in 1080p

Is this crap of a game really needed in 1080p?!

Any good emulator for PS2?

If Nintendo made a 1080p firmware update or something that you added on, they would get a huge boost in sales and games developed for the console which again lead to a boost in sales for both consoles and games

Is it just my system or was the youtube video fairly jumpy?

Same deal as with Mario Galaxy, or many other games on Dolphin. Even if you have the hardware to get smooth framerates, the games still run slow, as this video shows. It' feels like he's on the moon or under water.

same here

Hehe that's cool. Can that emulator brings zelda and metroid to 1080p too?

Is youtube capped at 30fps?

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Weird - why would you need GeForce GTX 260 for a 2D game? An ancient GeForce 4400 should suffice (certainly nothing more than a GeForce FX 5500, possibly even the 2MB pre-3DFx 2D-only cards)...

looks like fun.... I think my neices and nephews must have this for xmas!

I think Nintendo should drop the whole console gig and just make games. Let's face it. Is the wii console REALLY required to play the games they make.... No. The wii is not a console, it's a method of playing games. If you took the accessories (wand, nun-chuck, etc), and accessories only, from the wii and had an exact equivalent on either the PS3 or 360, nobody would pay for the wii. People aren't paying for an underpowered previous generation console that has no HD and only comes in shiny white. They are paying for the experience. An experience that currently is not available on the PS3 or 360. HOWEVER, once either or both of those consoles provide the same experience, Nintendo's sales of the console will plummet. That's my prediction, and I think it's only a matter of time before something like that happens to a degree.

Pretty sure that's because the game is 3D but is played on a 2D plane. Also, consider that emulating consoles requires a lot of processing power.

Even a E6550 at stock clocks paired with a 4870 will lag at certain points with PS2 games.

Looks better than standard to me.

Looks good (graphic, not game).

No matter how high the resolution of the screen, the wii will always have ugly textures

Ran at constant 60FPS with perfect audio too with no graphical errors. Due to recording with Fraps it recorded at 30FPS and caused audio problems which do not happen otherwise.

@ Shrex

That is kinda what I figured.

I would be curious to see what something like the Metroid Prime series looks like on 1080p

After watching the video, I think I'd still enjoy super mario world on the snes more than this. I grew up on that game and still have fun to this day playing it.

Nintendo makes way to much money to think about ditching hardware and only focus on software. Lets face it, no matter how poor the graphics are, that console is fun to play with. People of all ages flock to it. Sales may drop, but I garauntee you Nintendo will pull them up when the time comes for a Wii update/refresh. The bottom line is that its still the best selling system, and the combined sales of the DS and Wii put everything else to shame.

i really like what the dolphin team has been doing with their emulator

I regret gettin a wii, it's mainly for the kids. there are some good games, but not that many. tryin to get a 360 for fps's. this isn't a lie, i'm no fanboy

Heh, that's funny. The test system is overkill to emulate the modest hardware of the Wii. You're still not gonna see an HD Wii anytime soon. At best, the next generation from Nintendo will be able to play Wii games in 1080P. Such a system is probably 2 years away at least.

umm .. bad topic name .. THIS IS NOT HD

just cause the video is set to 1080p .. doesn't make the game all of a sudden HD .. like my old xbox (original) which i had the component cables for and had it set to 1080p didn't all of a sudden make my games HD

I agree Wii is for the kids. My kids love it and have a great time playing it. I work with Sharp and the graphics look amazing on our LCD television.

mario is so boring

True, but you are missing a couple of points. First, Component cables cannot deliver true 1080p. Sure, the cable itself is capable of carrying the required bandwidth of about 124MHz, but the RCA style connector can only handle ~100MHz which means it is dumping almost 20% of the signal. So even if you did have a 1080p source, you would be able to tell the difference between a component cable and HDMI/DVI.

Second, the resolution from your xbox was limited to 1080i at best depending on the game. On the back of the games case it told you which resolutions the game was capable of. There was 480p, 720p, and 1080i, but never 1080p for the original xbox. The game was actually written to render at those resolutions so in theory, without hacking the game, you could not increase the resolution.

Now assuming the wii does not have the same limitations in its games, one could in theory take the game and put it in higher end hardware and render the game in higher resolutions much like high end computers can play games in higher resolutions than lower end ones. HOWEVER, if the video is of 1920x1080 resolution at 60 frames per second, it could be said that the game is being played at 1080p. 1080p !== better all the time. 1080p is just a statement saying there are 1920x1080 pixels in a progressive scan format at 60 frames per second. Being 1080p does not stop the content from looking like shit.

I'm feeling nostalgic now after watching that... Sega should remake thier classic 2D Sonic games in HD for modern consoles. Then we can have some old skool sonic vs mario arguments: Trollin' like it's 1994...

Its really a fun game kinda short but really a blast to play, now just to collect all the gold coins and open up the different paths...

I would never let my kids play Mario -- not in 1080p, 720p or 480i. One of the most unhealthy franchises of all time for the youthful mind.

It teaches kids to look down on their siblings (Luigi), and worse yet to grow into self-centered brats who value their own self-importance more than anything except perhaps materialism based on the obsession over earning more and more coins. With no real goal in mind other than to please a woman who is viewed as nothing more as an object, in this case a trophy, Mario is an attempt to show that you can succeed in life by setting your goals low to be nothing more than a stout plumber if you have enough weed to smoke to induce such dreams. Hence 'Mushroom Kingdom', and hence the numerous clouds in the settings. In these absurd dreams you still conquer and become important to the world. Too bad when the reality hits, your job is fixing broken toilets.

No fanboy either but if you want to play FPS games, why don't you get a PC?