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firefighter26 · 04-02-2008, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by CaseyL

you're taking a 15 year old game (DKC) and running it with the best possible connections and output possible from the wii into new tech TV. I think what you are seeing is the game itself, nothing that you've done wrong, or is wrong with your system.

I was pretty sure that I had the wiring correct. (despite being out of the loop, hooking everything up is relatively easy). Glad to hear I am at least going in the correct direction for once!

I thought that Nintendo would have at least "up-sampled" or attempted to improve the displaying quality of the older games. I didn't expect a total graphics re-do; but I did expect it to display at least as good as the original, especially given the advances in hardware (wii) and display (HD) technologies.

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Originally Posted by CaseyL

It's the core of the great debate as to why Nintendo didn't go with a truly High(er) def system output.

I often wondered that myself, especially with the level of graphics put out by the other competing systems.

Then again, Nintendo had/has big plans for its VC and they probably knew that going to the higher end of the graphics scale would just make the older games display even worse; and that they could save production costs and possibly reduce the amount of complaints due to poor graphics by going mid/low-range.

I remember reading that VC game downloads has surpassed 10million, and that the lowest price for a game is 500wii points (or $5US), then it doesn't take much to see that Nintendo racked in AT LEAST $50million for selling old games from old systems without putting much, or anything, into upgrading them; not to mention saving R&D costs, distribution costs, and even manual printing costs! From a business side it makes sense.... but then again, I am rambling!

Going back to the original problem, I guess I am just going to have to live with the graphics being not so great. It is too bad that there wasn't a way to preview games because this experience is seriously undermining my desire to download more games, especially if there is a good chance they are all going to look like crap. That being said, I am going to attempt to hook the Wii back up to the old TV and see if it looks any better. I'd hate to think that I just dropped a bucket of money on an TV, etc, just to have my 15+ year old TV display a better picture anyway!