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If I bought a Wii, how easy is it to plug into my CRT monitor?

dug777

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I'd be buying just for Wii Sports, Mario Kart, and Double Dash, all awesome games to play with your mates over a few beers ;)

I could alternatively plug it through my HDTV card, which seems to work fine for the 64, except the graphics are eye-bleedingly awful after using PJ64@1600x1200 with AA/AF maxed out ;)
 

Modeps

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oznerol

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You have a BNC input on your monitor? Is that an Australian thing or something? I'm assuming you mean RCA (composite) input? I have an oscilloscope with BNC inputs, haha.

If that's the case, you can hook it up straight to that, though depending on your monitor's native resolution, it won't look too good. S-video would be better, component best.
 

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: ducci
You have a BNC input on your monitor? Is that an Australian thing or something? I'm assuming you mean RCA (composite) input? I have an oscilloscope with BNC inputs, haha.

If that's the case, you can hook it up straight to that, though depending on your monitor's native resolution, it won't look too good. S-video would be better, component best.

Pretty sure that BNC is just Coax with a fancy connector.
 

oznerol

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I've never seen an RF coax input on a CRT before (aside from a TV). I (think) I've seen RCA inputs.

Oh man, I remember having to use coax to hook up my NES to my old TV - we had the same TV all the way up to the N64 - which we needed to buy a special converter to hook it up via coax since everything turned to RCA.
 

tfinch2

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You're going to be playing Wii with other people on a CRT? :laugh:

I thought you were from the future dug. You can do better than that... :p