Hyperkin HD Cable for Wii

Does a good job of converting the Wii's signal to our HD tv. There is noticeable picture quality differences, but that's due to up-scaling, not the fault of this adapter. No lines, no skipping or juddering. Good solid product.

I needed to find a product that would give a clean 480p output in preparation for a new retro upscaler I ordered called the mClassic. You'll see several small white brick looking adapters for the Wii on Amazon. Some output an upscaled 1080p image, but I wanted just 480p which is the highest natively supported by the Wii anyway. This left me with 2 options the Hyperkin HD cable and the KCool variety of small white brick adapters. The KCool did indeed display a 480p image at half the price of the Hyperkin but with a lot of noise displaying as a diagonal red lines across the image (painfully noticeable when flat colors were displayed on screen, and against the horizontal lines the Wii uses at various places in its user interface). The Hyperkin however had no such issue. The result is a clean image that looks just as good as my official Wii component cables with no distracting visual noise. For whatever reason you may need an HDMI output from the Wii (with cost in mind and without mods that require disassembling the system), this is the product you want. Easily worth the extra cost. Remember, this will not "clean up" the image. I thought it may be a tad sharper or "crisper" overall but in my limited testing playing the same small section of a game with official component cables and then the Hyperkin, they looked virtually identical.

This is the HDMI adapter to get for hooking up the Wii to modern TVs. There are cheaper options out there, but the Wii only outputs a 480i/480p signal and so the ones that claim to "upscale" to 720p or 1080p aren't doing the Wii's picture any favors. This one leaves it alone at 480p, so the same as if you used a component cable (the Red/Green/Blue/White/Red one). This results in a sharper image than if you use the Yellow/White/Red cable and doesn't add any unnecessary processing to the image. You simply plug it in and go. You might have to go into the Wii settings and change the image from 480i to 480p, though. The resulting picture is noticeably sharper than using the stock R/W/Y cable and looks good on modern TV's. Obviously this machine is a few generations old so the quality won't rival the Switch or even the WiiU, but it looks good and many Wii games hold up well today. So I'm very happy with this cable and it's simplicity, it feels well made and is a great option for hooking a Wii up to HDMI.

I always heard this is the cable of choice for competitive Smash Bros players due to its accuracy, so I took the plunge as that's a pretty glowing reccomendation. Plug and play simple, obviously. Beautiful picture and sound works flawlessly. When the Wii itself is set to 480p there are several graphical glitches, but 480i works perfectly. I have had some weird glitch where if I don't change the HDMI from the Wii before turning the TV off(Samsung) it goes through some weird boot loop, and almost seems to crash before finally rebooting and turning on. That's not anything that's ever happened with any other device and isn't too pleasant, but it's not an issue as long as I change the input or to another app before powering off the TV. Otherwise I couldn't be happier with it. Edit: After further use, the issue only happens when the Wii is set to standby(blue led on power button). If I hold the button to power it completely down(red led on power button) the TV powers on fine. It's a very strange glitch, but again, seems harmless.

Works great for old school Wii

This adapter takes component video (YPbPr) output by the Wii, and converts it to HDMI. It works at 480i, 480p, 576i resolutions. Didn't test it on a Wii U at higher resolutions. The analog signal does not get upscaled in any way. This is exactly what I wanted. Other than that I liked the idea of having a long, black video cable which would look pretty nice and less messy when connected to a black Wii. The cable looks quite sturdy overall. However, while I thought to have finally found the perfect fit, I was quite disappointed by the resulting picture. I compared it to the picture output via two separate component to hdmi adapters connected using a dedicated Wii component video cable. These are the two: https://www.amazon.co.uk/KanaaN-Component-YPbPr-Converter-Adapter/dp/B00423GLWW https://www.amazon.com/Portta-SPETRH-Component-Converter-Uncompressed/dp/B00LPHJE5E The first analog to digital converter (KanaaN) is the very best one I have ever owned. Not the best I would have wanted, just the cheapest I could buy with a really decent picture quality. It works beautifully up to 1080i over component video on my Wii U. The second one (Portta), is quite smaller and consumes a bit less power, but the picture output is a bit "squashed" or letterboxed. Infact it adds two black bars of 8-10 pixel on the top and the bottom. To remove those by the view, I need to activate a zoomed view on my screen. This adds lag, and needs adjustments which I am frankly quite annoyed to still have to follow through on a 2017 screen. Now this dedicated adapter for the Wii from Hyperkin, it outputs the exact same squashed picture as the Portta adapter above. They both are the very smallest analog to digital video converters I have ever seen, and I wouldn't be surprised to find the exact same IC inside them. It doesn't end here. The picture when using a Wii component cable and a Portta adapter, yes it is squashed, but it is clean. Instead the Hyperkin cable introduces artifacts: white dots appeared on certain parts of the screen. These were expecially visible on dark areas. Having read that quite a few Wii users had experienced such kind of behaviour, and when it happened it was most often caused by GPU issues (which needed a full console replacement). So at first I thought that I was looking at the final stage of my beloved Wii's life. But then I calmed down and just unplugged the Hyperkin, reconnected a Wii component cable to the external HDMI converter, and got again a completely clean picture. Now if you have ever owned a cheap 3rd party video cable for the Wii, you might have noticed that it can introduce such white dots artifacts, if not just any kind of statics/noise (other than color shifting, ghosting, and whatnot). I own a PAL Wii, and when using RGB SCART cables, in order to have a clean picture I have had to buy the official Nintendo SCART cable. Even Nitho's "Pro" SCART cable failed miserably, measuring its CVBS pin (aka SYNC signal on Wii) running at over 2V..! In conclusion, this converter from Hyperkin not only uses a subpar analog to digital video converter IC, it also uses low quality (or just unshielded, I guess) cable interconnects. At this price point ($22.90 on Dec'17) it felt like a genuine rip-off to me, expecially when there are tons of Wii2HDMI converters out there for sale for less 1/3 of the price. On these cheaper alternatives the Wii AV plug is soldered directly to the converter board, and such solution reduces by 90% the chances to introduce visual artifacts.

I was worried this wasn't going to work with my pal wii after reading some of the reviews but it works great and the sound and video quality is very good.

Eu gostei muito do cabo pelo fato de ter uma boa qualidade de construção e também por proporcionar uma boa qualidade de imagem e a qualidade da imagem ficou muito melhor do que o do outro adaptador hdmi que eu tenho

Dieser Konverter für die Wii funktioniert Einwandfrei! Natürlich ist es bisschen teurer als andere, aber dafür überzeugt es definitiv mit der Qualität und Stabilität!

The output quality is way better compared to most of the Wii2HDMI adapters (no diagonal/jail-cell lines, noise). The caveat is that this cable may not be fully compatible with some 4K smart TVs. Make sure your display supports a 480p HDMI 1.4 signal. In my case, the cable worked perfectly on a gaming monitor that had HDMI 1.4 ports, but had frequent disconnections (handshake issues) on a 2021 Sony Bravia TV with HDMI 2.1 ports (not ideal for action/racing games). I found a workaround by using a Denon AVR connected to the TV that is capable of HDMI switching/passthrough. Connecting the cable to that has worked perfectly without any signal degradation.

Lo compré en sustitución de un convertidor de cable de componentes a HDMI que producía una imagen intermitente en una pantalla 4K sin entradas de RCA ni componentes, haciendo obviamente imposible la utilización correcta de una consola Wii. Este cable funcionó perfectamente para mi. Y a pesar de que la resolución de la consola es 480i o 480p el cable cubre su función entregando audio y video constantes, con mucho mejor calidad que el convertidor mencionado y sin problemas. Claro, teniendo en cuenta el límite de resolución de la consola. Pero aún así la calidad de la imagen es bastante aceptable y puedo utilizar la consola sin problemas. La instalación es muy sencilla y rápida, en segundos. Recomendable.