Wanna see what the Wii HD games are gonna look like? - Page 2

You need to enable the "bleach hack" to get those distant onbjects to render at a higher res. Yes, there are still plenty of issues with plenty of games, but it has comes a really long way in the last year.

On my system I can run Windwaker at 1080p, 16x AF, 4x AA, beach hack on, at 30 fps. I haev a Core 2 Quad (Q6600 at 3.4), with my old 8800GT SLI setup it really struggled, but with either a Radeon HD 5870, or a GTX 470 it runs great.

Here is what its supposed to look like. 1920x1080, 16xAF, 4xAA, "Bleach Versus Crusade" hack turned on. Note that 30fps is the highest that windwaker goes.
Resizing introduced some compression artifacts, it looks stunning in person.

Right, and the Bleach hack introduces a crash problem. Additionally, whatever filter we are now omitting isn't being used, so while that image is cleaner, it still isn't "what its supposed to look like". The sound is also still messed up. Like I said, another year and I'll give it another look. The emulation just isn't good enough yet.

Hey, don't blame me if you system can't run it. I can play it for hours with no crashing, and yes, that is what its supposed to look like.

Sound emulation is still far from perfect, but definitely playable.

Tony, please stop trying to help me. It's pretty obvious that you aren't reading but one line per post before responding, in which case your "help" is pretty pointless.

Who said I was trying to help you? Are you the only one who reads this thread? You are telling me that I can't run it the way I am because it crashes, and that it doesn't look right, both of which are completely wrong. Feel free to wait a year before playing it, I'll keep playing it in the meantime.

These screenshots are making me think about dusting off my Gamecube collection and trying them out again with the Dolphin emulator. The question I have is where can I buy a Gamecube controller to USB adapter? A quick google search only showed me how to make one, and I have no business soldering circuit boards.

Thanks in advance.

I've been using an Xbox 360 wired controller, works great once you get all the buttons mapped out correctly. Simple plug and play with no adapters or funky drivers required.

That CPU will have no problem running it. It ran fine on my Q6600, and runs even better on my i5-750. Not all games work well, or at all, but WindWaker runs well.

These games look fantastic when rendered at 1080p.

I wish the demand for this kind of thing was so great that Nintendo would consider selling older GameCube and Wii games via Steam, and use an emulator that is free of problems. One can dream.

I don't know, that's really optimistic. Backwards compatibility is one thing, but upscaled BC?

Upscaling isn't a problem. The Wii does it for the Virtual Console emulators. The Xbox 360 can do it for anything, including original Xbox games. And the Playstation 3 can upscale content, including PSOne and PS2 games (If you have the right console for PS2 compatibility).

If there is backwards compatibility, upscaling certainly isn't going to be a problem. But there is a heck of a lot more going on in those screenshots than just upscaling, so I doubt it would ever look like that. If it does, hats off to Nintendo for their efforts since it will be the first time we could play 480i/p games in HD and have them actually look better than they do on a SD/ED CRT.

Why does Wind Waker seem to be in widescreen in those screenshots? That isn't correct and looks awful. Circles are ovals, the heart containers for the health meter have a squished look, etc. It certainly isn't how it's supposed to look.