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Hey guys,
So, after a few days worth of brainstorming I believe that I may have come up with an interesting solution for getting VGA video out of a Wii.
Now, this will still require extra hardware, but I'm hoping that it will work.
Now, I am sure that you are all familiar with this bad boy
(Credit Ashen)
And I know that many of you will be familiar with the process of using this board as a sync separator in order to separate a single sync into hsync and vsync.
I am also sure that many of you are aware of the fact that PAL region Wii's support RGB video natively. With this being the case, couldn't we just use the board above as a sync separator (using composite as sync) in conjunction with the native PAL RGB output in order to get around the diminished quality that stems from converting Y PB PR to VGA? Would it be compatible with the Wii's native RGB output? If so, this could potentially work with any sync separator.
In addition to this, it is my understanding that the Wii hardware is identical across all regions and the region locks/changes are implemented through software. So therefore we could theoretically change the region on any Wii to PAL in software thus enabling native RGB output as well. I already know this last part is possible due to having done this in the past so that I could use my NTSC Wii on my PVM through RGB.
Let me know what you guys think. Would this be possible? I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, but I honestly just discovered this for myself and I really think it could work.
So, after a few days worth of brainstorming I believe that I may have come up with an interesting solution for getting VGA video out of a Wii.
Now, this will still require extra hardware, but I'm hoping that it will work.
Now, I am sure that you are all familiar with this bad boy
(Credit Ashen)
And I know that many of you will be familiar with the process of using this board as a sync separator in order to separate a single sync into hsync and vsync.
I am also sure that many of you are aware of the fact that PAL region Wii's support RGB video natively. With this being the case, couldn't we just use the board above as a sync separator (using composite as sync) in conjunction with the native PAL RGB output in order to get around the diminished quality that stems from converting Y PB PR to VGA? Would it be compatible with the Wii's native RGB output? If so, this could potentially work with any sync separator.
In addition to this, it is my understanding that the Wii hardware is identical across all regions and the region locks/changes are implemented through software. So therefore we could theoretically change the region on any Wii to PAL in software thus enabling native RGB output as well. I already know this last part is possible due to having done this in the past so that I could use my NTSC Wii on my PVM through RGB.
Let me know what you guys think. Would this be possible? I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, but I honestly just discovered this for myself and I really think it could work.
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