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PAL owners stuck with VC display issues

by rawmeatcowboy
17 February 2007
GN 1.0 / 2.0

Reader Blork101 was experiencing an issue that many PAL gamers are going through with the Virtual Console. Some of his downloaded games were having major display issues. Since he had purchased these games, and had no way of enjoying them, he got in touch with Nintendo to see what was up. There response is below.

“In the past, games were released featuring different resolutions and signal types, namely ‘interlaced’ and ‘non-interlaced’ signals. As such, Virtual Console game signals are broadcast in these ‘interlaced’ and ‘non-interlaced’ modes. This is because Nintendo has always maintained that Virtual Console titles are an exact representation of how these titles originally appeared. Some component cables do not support ‘non-interlaced’ video signals - therefore to fully enjoy all Virtual Console games without this problem potentially occurring you will need to play them with a normal AV cable (supplied with the Wii) or an RGB Scart Cable (available separately). This is not a fault with the Virtual Console service as using the correct lead will ensure you are able to play any title from the Virtual Console library. The Virtual Console does not support 480p resolution or above so there is no benefit of playing these titles with a component cable. “

So basically our poor reader is out of luck. Perhaps this shows my lack of knowledge in this area, but couldn’t a fix be worked on? Surely there is a way to update these games to minimize issues.