Wii emulator boosts visuals to 720p HD

Depends on the computer. I think an Alienware with a few gigs of RAM can pull about 90%, but I'm not an expert on this. All I know is that there ARE people who can run Dolphin at 100% out there.

Even the estimated specs should be able to do it. The Xbox 1 was able to display some games in 720p and since the GC was very very close in power (Both Primes looked better than both Halos, TP looked better than Fable etc etc) thanks to it's far more efficient architecture and more efficient ram, saying the Wii is 2 GCs duct-taped together is the same as saying it's two Xboxes duct-taped together. If the Xbox could do 720p, the Wii DEFINATLY could....and should.

Last I checked, all the emulators had trouble simply running most commercial GC games, let alone Wii games in HD, unless things have progressed significantly in the last few months.

Same here. I thought GCN emulation was just barely off the ground, and here we are with very good Wii emulation with Wii Remote support and all that good stuff.

Crazy times.

Maybe the systems and stuff aren't all that different?

I was on the Dolphin site and checked the compatibility chart and it only supports like 4 Wii games and something like 14 GC games.

http://www.dolphin-emu.com/list.php?listcount=1

Very cool stuff!

The Wii has most of the same hardware as the gamecube but faster. Like how PCs have the same types of processors but faster.

Yeah I know that but still, I thought GCN emulation was still in the very early stages.

Guess not.

@Bissy

You do realize there's more than one page, right? Click the arrows.

I only noticed one page as well. The arrows really blend in with the background. It's not a very good design.

Jorge

I'm not an expert but I do know the Wii has component cables that support something like 480p. I guess you could pick yourself a similarly sized HD set and those cables to get a visual upgrade. We have our Wii hooked up to an older HD TV in the living room with those cables and it looks pretty tight. Sometimes we move it into the kids room and they have an SD TV with the regular cables and its not a massive difference but it does take a bump down in quality. I don't think you'll be able to get this kind of upgrade but an HDTv and those cables will give you a nice bump in quality.

Buy an HDTV and component cables for the Wii.
...that's really all there is to it. There's a lot of snobs who would have you think that it requires a feat of technical wizardry to get a proper HD picture on one's TV set, but...no, not really. Just plug the friggin' cables in.
You may or may not (probably not) have to adjust something under your picture settings regarding picture resolution, too.

You could probably use those cables on your SDTV, too, although the difference I don't imagine would be very noticeable.

..........hilarious.

Since the Wii and GC use identical hardware with faster clock speeds and more ram on the Wii, it only makes sense the same emulation could be used since identical development tools are also being used *sigh*

I think he meant that the WIi is just a little improvement over the Gamecube.

HD is HD. You're saying that textures have to be a certain resolution in order for something to be classified as "HD" ? Gimme a break

First of all, I never said it wasn't HD.

Second of all, why don't you go experience this and play some of those games to see what I mean. If your textures are low res, you can render it to any size framebuffer you want and it won't really look HD.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2599/gm8e011.jpg

O rly? Metroid Prime is beeeeeautiful.

I laughed because it was true.

This.

They could've always gone third-party for Sony and/or Microsoft.


IMHO they should've thrown in like 50 dollars more hardware into the thing, I mean they didn't have to make a console as powerful as the 360 and PS3, but an overclocked GameCube? :/

Man, you took the word out of my mouth

But then again, the problem to this is people who can't see beyond what they see on the screen.

Miyamoto already stated his oppinion on that, Not many people can make the jump from sd to hd in an instant, less with the way world economy is right now. Hence, they at least gave us people who can't do the jump like many did a way to have fun withouth needing to have the last on tec to enjoy it.

Instead, they opted to give us a new way to have fun, rather than upgrade the graphics. That can be done by anyone, its no something that hard, but new way to play games, only Nintendo (and currently apple) were the ones to makeit come true.

Besides, Nintendo are the only one making money out of their new gamming system. Given how many failures Microsoft has seen over the years and Sony lossing money over each ps3 sold.

I can live withouth the HD, really, RE5 on HD didn't do much for me, i actually think the RE4 > RE5.

There is a market of people who doesn't care about HD graphics, and most of this market already have a Wii. Most of them also have a HD console (myself I have a PS3) but still, I don't need hd to play a game, i almost not care about it, while the game is fun or the history is enjoyable, graphics are the least i see. I can't say i'm not impressed at what I had seen of The Conduit or Monster Hunter 3, not only for the graphics, but knowing how much effort those games are receiving and graphics look awesome, but then again MadWorld, Overkill and Bikini zombie Slayer looks quite awesome one their own style.

Its nice to see that people are trying to show that the Wii, is Nintendo would had put more effort, could had done 720p or 1080p, but myself, I don't care, really, i can't see the difference there. And, if achieving those resolution are a matter of firmware update, like SDHC was, then i think nintendo can work something for that

The thing is, the Xbox 360 is cheaper than the Wii... so much for Nintendo giving us a "cheap" option.

If you wanted cheap, the PS2 is a better console anyway. There are very few games on Wii that couldn't have been done on GC/PS2 without significantly altering the gameplay.

The video itself is sub HD but the res is still higher the the wii's 480p mode. If you actually ran the emulator on a real PC you can pick whatever res you want

Um, dude, that image is prerendered, used on the trailer for the game shown at E3 when the game was announced.

I can give that that image looks better than many of the current Wii games if we count also the shovelware in, but then again, its look waaaaaay worser than what Mario Galaxy and Smash Brother Melee (yeah, Melee) looks like

Textures, ok, models, too blooky, really, from Quake 3 to Doom 3 their engine didn't grew up much, but I say that was Ravens fault for not putting much effort on the thing. I mean, HalfLife 2 was about to come out when Doom 3 was released and HL2 loooook waaaaay better than Doom 3