Homemade Wii component cables

I still haven't been able to get real Wii component cables in order to display in progressive scan (Nintendo seems to be thumbing their nose at their most loyal fans with the Wii), so I found a guide online for making your own homebrew cables. It works, but the main problem is that you have to destroy your composite A/V cable to do it.

Messy Wires

Wiring like this is the moral equivalent of goto statements and spaghetti code. My E.E. professors would be ashamed..

Wii Back

Paperclips to the rescue! Obviously not a long-term solution, but it works.

Wii 480p

Yay for finally being able to select 480p! I just noticed in this picture that my camera has no IR filter, so you can see all the LEDs in the Wii 'sensor bar.' I am surprised that it has 4 on each side..

Posted on December 31, 2006
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  1. I ordered my component cable directly from Nintendo online and Scott ordered his a day after. Of course, since I selected “cheap” postage, his was dispatched days before my order was even processed, but they both arrived sometime before Christmas. 480p is noticeably sharper, but I prefer the graphics on my PS3. 😉

    What’s the picture quality like with those paperclips doing the work?

  2. The quality is surprisingly good. I don’t notice any problems. But it’s only 480p, if it was 1080p those paperclips probably wouldn’t cut it

  3. So I am sitting here, running Norton to scan my hard drive, and I got to thinking… Any chance you might invent a virus scanner that only scans changes made since the last scan instead of the whole hard drive?

    Just whenever you have a spare hour or two

  4. I’ll get on that. Should be done tomorrow.

    The hard part of course is knowing which things changed since the last scan, and keeping a log of all those changes, which could get very big.

  5. Totally OT, but Windows does keep track of all changes made since checkpoint days, if System Restore is activated. What if a nasty virus altered or infected this info, though?

    Virus scanners are overrated, just don’t use the Internet, ever. 😉

  6. Yes, but that only keeps track of changes to system files, drivers and the registry, not all the rest of your files.

  7. When I do a restore, it moves files around that I added (renames folder names, etc). Maybe I am forgetting what it really does, since I haven’t used Windows at home in ages.

  8. Maybe I am thinking of System File Protection instead. I guess I’m not really sure what System Restore does – it’s on my list of things to disable every time I install Windows 🙂

  9. yeah… it was def worth ordering from nintendo… and the extra $2 for shipping also kicked ass, but im sure this was much more fun for you.

    We missed you in CO ric :(. sorry you got stranded.

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