Emulators, Hardware and HDTV

[Gnashvar]

I was looking at some videos of Wii games played on emulators. Most of these videos were in 720. I know emulators use filters and other methods to upscale the graphics. Is it possible to really make a Wii upscaler with hardware? I've seen some but are really crappy and do a really bad job of it. Releasing an official upscaler would really boost Nintendo in the console race. Not that they need to but still it would be fun. Is it really possible though?

[lisalover1]

I don't think so with external hardware, but it might be possible to mod the Wii itself to do run in 720p. I haven't seen anything like that yet, but it is theoretically possible, if it has been done in an emulator.

[jfrost]

http://www.gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=118297

[Hatta]

Emulators can upscale, much the way an external upscaler would. However emulators can also actually render the polygons at a higher resolution. You can't do that with an upscaler.

[Anapan]

Maybe once you internalize a retrotink, you inline build in that expensive upscaling filter hdmi cable - "Marseille Inc. mCable". It does really make 480p look much better with almost 0 lag, if you're into those 'smart smoothing' filters. Even Bob from RetroRGB had no real complaints aside from the price. Linus Techtips also reviewed it.

[ElkinFencer10]

Holy necrobump, Batman! But yeah, I know the mClassic helps out a lot with SD games outputting through HDMI, so I imagine the mCable would, too. I'm also planning to get a RetroTink 5x as soon as they get a restock for retro gaming on an HDTV.

[Anapan]

Haha, I pocket dialed the forum on my phone and when it showed up I drunkposted a response. I think my thigh reversed the date-sort and found one of the first topics.
anyway, I think the new firmware of the retrotink 5X is amazing. I don't own one yet, but those CRT filters are incredible.

[bmoc]

Can confirm. The latest scanline options are fantastic. I'm a big fan of the PVM setting.