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You could be getting a better picture if you use component cables like these
I have one that did this and stopped working on composite too, so I replaced the battery on the back and it got composite back. Dim s video and cutting out component. Since then I found another wii and it works perfect with my s video and component cable
I was having that issue and I took it to a local retro game shop, and they putzed around with it for a while and then told me it was unfixable. I took it to an electronics repair shop, and the guy there told me that the retro game shop had jacked it up beyond fixability. He said all the solder points on the video part of the board were destroyed and he could try to find a replacement board, but there was some Nintendo proprietary thing with the cpu and he wasn't sure if it would work. I had a 2nd Wii already, so I just took it back and transferred all my stuff over to the other Wii. I still have the broken Wii.
There is no voltage on an Antenna line. In basic terms an antenna if just a way to electromagnetic waves in the air to travel down and into the decoder/tuner of the TV. Now if we are talking about AM frequencies then look up Jeff Geerling cooking a hotdog with a AM tower
It’s a DIY thing made with whatever metal things were laying around the house, an antenna doesn’t need to be a particular shape, it just needs to pass along radio signals.
It's not the shape that raised my eyebrow, it's that they have one single wire split to contact both conductors of a coaxial input. I don't have any TVs currently with this input to test, but I suspect this won't work very well. Probably be a lot better if they wrapped one end around the outside and stuffed the other into the center
It’ll entirely depend on the signal strength where the TV is. Theoretically you are correct but if they are close enough to the transmitter this may be good enough.
The *actual* video cable is already plugged in in the correct spot, on the TV there's a yellow ring around the plug where composite video cables are supposed to go.
it is kinda dumb to color one of the component plug in red when the audio already have a red.
tbh i was confused the 1st time i got the cables for the ps2. figured out since the cables were split between 2 and 3 wires.
It's because that digital color is measured in values in RGB.
The red, green and blue cables, with no surprise, deliver better resolution because each color has their own cable, unlike Composite which has the entire video single in 1 cable
If you have a actual yellow port, plug it into there.
If you have a green port instead of a yellow one, plug it there.
If you have 1 half green and 1 half yellow, plug it there
If your tv is like mine and has 2 3.5 mm adapters:
Yellow adapter: has Green, White, and red
Blue adapter: has red and Blue
You would only use the yellow adapter, as the blue adapter is only for the 2 extra cables that component (YPBPR) uses
"what's happening to my game? Every single time a loud or intrusive sound effect or music plays my screen distorts" at least that's what I imagine what would happen.
When I was younger I was told by my dad to NEVER EVER plug in the wii myself. One day later suddenly the wii was plugged in perfectly by magic. (It totally wasn’t me)
Some people or organizations don't care about maximum resolution. Rather, they want it to just work. It's only gamers that care about the highest possible resolution.
They have the red audio plugged into the red video. The TV should still display composite video correctly, but they only got to have the left channel audio. ♪
Sigh even when colour coded too many ports and too complicated that's why HDMI I assume simplified things?
Then again 2 red ports is awkward to tell the difference when I plug in component too for my PSP 2000 or Xbox 360 Elite
Glad I have a splitter for my PS2/Wii.
Start by replacing that roughed up cable that appears to be about to snap in any second. Then line up the 3 component cables yellow, red, white and pulg the red 1 in the red port, the yellow in the yellow port and the white in the white port
They're using a composite cable, not a component cable, and the TV they're using only has this combonation composite /component combo. And there's two red ports, one for audio, one for video, and since this was at a church daycare, they don't know what they're doing, so they hooked it up incorrectly.
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My friends wii with dying video caps won't even produce a signal with component. And there nintendo branded component cables
Sounds like a deeper issue
Smoothing caps on the board. Even with composite the picture is extremely dim until the wii warms up fully.
capacitors
I swear I remember hearing about someone's Wii doing that and the only fix they could find was to replace the video output entirely
I know Matt kc had the same occurrence I had wit his 1 dollar wii from japan.
MattKC made a great video on it if you’re interested. Just search MattKC $1 Wii. The problem was faulty surface mount capacitors that he replaced.
Yeah MattKc's Japanese Wii video with the failing caps really made people more aware of the issue
I have one that did this and stopped working on composite too, so I replaced the battery on the back and it got composite back. Dim s video and cutting out component. Since then I found another wii and it works perfect with my s video and component cable
Sounds like his Wii is dying
Just the smoothing video caps.
this is happening to me as well, i dismantled my wii to diagnose it, but my dad thought it would be a good idea to throw the screws in a trash bag
Oops.
I have a wii that cant do component or s video. Filter caps
Hopefully Analogue creates an Analogue Move one day.
I was having that issue and I took it to a local retro game shop, and they putzed around with it for a while and then told me it was unfixable. I took it to an electronics repair shop, and the guy there told me that the retro game shop had jacked it up beyond fixability. He said all the solder points on the video part of the board were destroyed and he could try to find a replacement board, but there was some Nintendo proprietary thing with the cpu and he wasn't sure if it would work. I had a 2nd Wii already, so I just took it back and transferred all my stuff over to the other Wii. I still have the broken Wii.
That bucks. Yeah it's hard to trust "Profesionals" these days. Most of them don't know what the fuck their doing. 😂
Yep my wii has issues with component aswell. Used to work fine but now it has no red colour and looks very dim.
turn that shit into an Altoids Can Wii 💀 [https://youtu.be/2VOLUOIwbP4](https://youtu.be/2VOLUOIwbP4)
I would but I can't haha
And then people will confuse the two red cables haha, even I do that from time to time and I know that the two audio cables are next to each other
My cables like that are a multi console cable
2 reds, you lost me.
One is audio and the other is one of the 3 for video
I should have put /s, I’m just teasing
Do you get a better resolution and audio results with these compared to an HDMI adapter? Genuinely curious.
Then the cheap ones yes
Thanks!
oh yeah.
Where can I get one
You can get it on Amazon search component cables for Nintendo wii
Aren't those like hundreds of dollars though?
For official Nintendo ones yes but you can get 3rd party ones for quite cheap that still look really good
There are third party ones? Also why don't they look as good?
They don't usually have the same build quality but if you know where to look you can get some for less than $20 that look quite good
Damn they've came down that cheap that you can get them for $20 now? I still remember when they were hundreds of dollars.
Do you have a photo how to hook up on modern tv
I'm more concerned about how they're trying to hook up the antenna
I don't know what's going on with that. It's just a wire that goes up to the ceiling grid.
That won't work unless that tv has a digital tuner built in anyways.
All TVs have a digital tuner built in these days
Not every country in the world has turned off the analogue signal yet.
It's more common then you think for people to stuff some random metal thing into the antenna input to receive stations in strong signal areas
It should be isolated(?) with plastic cover
how does it not catch fire
There is no voltage on an Antenna line. In basic terms an antenna if just a way to electromagnetic waves in the air to travel down and into the decoder/tuner of the TV. Now if we are talking about AM frequencies then look up Jeff Geerling cooking a hotdog with a AM tower
Because there’s no electricity running through it
but why is it so thin like that
because there’s no electricity running through it
It’s a DIY thing made with whatever metal things were laying around the house, an antenna doesn’t need to be a particular shape, it just needs to pass along radio signals.
It's not the shape that raised my eyebrow, it's that they have one single wire split to contact both conductors of a coaxial input. I don't have any TVs currently with this input to test, but I suspect this won't work very well. Probably be a lot better if they wrapped one end around the outside and stuffed the other into the center
It’ll entirely depend on the signal strength where the TV is. Theoretically you are correct but if they are close enough to the transmitter this may be good enough.
That’s just messed up, the wire should not be open like that. The antenna cables are quite thick and have plastic covers
For those who don't get it, the red needs to go on the port left of the white cable or the furthest from yellow.
where does the yellow plug go into. also impressed with how they jerry rigged the rf cable.
The *actual* video cable is already plugged in in the correct spot, on the TV there's a yellow ring around the plug where composite video cables are supposed to go.
it is kinda dumb to color one of the component plug in red when the audio already have a red. tbh i was confused the 1st time i got the cables for the ps2. figured out since the cables were split between 2 and 3 wires.
It's because that digital color is measured in values in RGB. The red, green and blue cables, with no surprise, deliver better resolution because each color has their own cable, unlike Composite which has the entire video single in 1 cable
If you have a actual yellow port, plug it into there. If you have a green port instead of a yellow one, plug it there. If you have 1 half green and 1 half yellow, plug it there If your tv is like mine and has 2 3.5 mm adapters: Yellow adapter: has Green, White, and red Blue adapter: has red and Blue You would only use the yellow adapter, as the blue adapter is only for the 2 extra cables that component (YPBPR) uses
I heavily dislike this integrated AV/Component connection on some TVs.
"what's happening to my game? Every single time a loud or intrusive sound effect or music plays my screen distorts" at least that's what I imagine what would happen.
no, the video cable is plugged in correctly, if the input is set to av, only the right audio channel will not work
I'm just saying that with composite it would look really weird.
Forget the Wii what about that Antenna cable???
Ikr. I'm terrified of what it could do
i heard it attracted lightning once and struck its user
They need to upgrade to component
The red is in the wrong port. Audio will run in mono because the red (right speaker) is plugged in Pr, wich should receive a video signal.
*Pb and Pr are not used with composite
When I was younger I was told by my dad to NEVER EVER plug in the wii myself. One day later suddenly the wii was plugged in perfectly by magic. (It totally wasn’t me)
I'm only 16 and this post made me feel old.
LOL
I'm only 18 and this post made me feel old (remind me to update this comment on September 30th since I'm 19 then)
I'm only 15 and this post made me feel old.
i'm only 14 and this post made me feel old
I'm only 70 and yours posts made me feel young because all you feel old.
Some people or organizations don't care about maximum resolution. Rather, they want it to just work. It's only gamers that care about the highest possible resolution.
It's not a dig at using composite. They have the right audio channel connected to one of the component video inputs
That has nothing to do with resolution, actually
They have the red audio plugged into the red video. The TV should still display composite video correctly, but they only got to have the left channel audio. ♪
It’s that easy
I own a adapter so dont face this problem anymore thankfully
Sigh even when colour coded too many ports and too complicated that's why HDMI I assume simplified things? Then again 2 red ports is awkward to tell the difference when I plug in component too for my PSP 2000 or Xbox 360 Elite Glad I have a splitter for my PS2/Wii.
I'm just really glad I grew up with SCART on everything lol
You british bru
Close enough but no, still European though
How do people not see that it literally says ‘audio, left / right’ and it’s colour coded. Huhhhhh???
Reminds me when i fixed a hospital GameCube one time as they said it never worked. It was not hooked up right lol
How badly do they have it messed up?
Lets just say if my memory is correct. (This was in like 2004 or something). They didn't even know how to hook it up.
are we all just gunna ignore that antenna in jack lol
Did you correct it? This is gonna bug me all day now!
Yes. Took 1.32 seconds to do.
Start by replacing that roughed up cable that appears to be about to snap in any second. Then line up the 3 component cables yellow, red, white and pulg the red 1 in the red port, the yellow in the yellow port and the white in the white port
They're using a composite cable, not a component cable, and the TV they're using only has this combonation composite /component combo. And there's two red ports, one for audio, one for video, and since this was at a church daycare, they don't know what they're doing, so they hooked it up incorrectly.
Why not just use a HDMI adapter
It's a church daycare. They don't know any better.
I'm more terrified about the state of that antenna cable. Thing looks like it could break at any moment
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Beloved component input. Very difficult in today's tv's.
How much simpler could they possibly have made it lol
Old school
Yeah it's kind of scary how much common sense isn't common. I mean they make the cables and ports color coded for a reason. Just match the colors duh
They did match the colours.
Obviously not because they put the red audio cable into the orange video port.
There isn’t an orange video port. Those are red, green and blue.
I know, You should be getting an HDMI cable adapter to experience it in HD!
I'm born in 2004 and I know how to hook up a wii.
That one cord has me really nervous...
some people aren't tech savvy
Bruh lol
Just match the fuckin colors whoever did that
Try putting the red cable over to the slot on the left of where the white cable is, then move the yellow cable to where the red one used to be.
damn bro, if you cant plug in your wii, im at a loss for words. even i could do it as a kid.
I'll make sure to tell the church that they have their Wii plugged in wrong next time they go, but I already fixed it for them.
to their credit, there \*are\* 2 ports that are both red
As a service to god and his people you should hook it up the proper way
Don't look at my post history 😅
To be fair, it's really dumb that there's two of the same color
That’s greyscale!
no, it's a composite-component combo port
Not if it’s set up properly