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tbonesteak4dinner:
Allegedly even the new black wii that's bundled with New Super Mario Bros. can't play GameCube games either. Looks like it's becoming more and more worth it to get my launch Wii repaired...
Superchop:
--- Quote from: tbonesteak4dinner on September 15, 2012, 02:56:52 PM ---Allegedly even the new black wii that's bundled with New Super Mario Bros. can't play GameCube games either. Looks like it's becoming more and more worth it to get my launch Wii repaired...
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All new wii's are like that...From what I noticed you can actually tell which is the one that doesn't have gc compatibility just by the packaging. The new wii's without gc support are sitting horizontally on the front of the box as oppossed to the gc compatible ones that sit on their stand vertically. Although every where i've been to with new Wii's, I have yet to find a Wii that shows it vertically on the stand
lcvolt:
hey, talking about this component thing, i noticed some years ago that some sound effects were missing on my snes games. for example super mario world. when i get the cape it makes a 3 tone effects while originally i remember it was a 6 tone sound effect. last week i got this game back and played it and noticed the same thing again, so i decided instead of using the RCA's i used the coaxial, and now the sound effects are back. is my snes wrong or do games play better on coaxial? the same with my NES, the audio is low on the games and later the volume starts to go all the way up while using RCA, but when using coaxial everything works normal.
at last, i have a copy of star fox assault that i bought used on gamestop. the first minutes of the game have a cutscene where everyone talks. however, i cant hear the dialoge, just the background music. is my game broken? did i mess up something? is it because i play my game on the wii? who knows, maybe i have a weird collectors item (that i would gladly sell) haha
zakurowrath:
--- Quote from: lcvolt on September 15, 2012, 04:32:38 PM ---hey, talking about this component thing, i noticed some years ago that some sound effects were missing on my snes games. for example super mario world. when i get the cape it makes a 3 tone effects while originally i remember it was a 6 tone sound effect. last week i got this game back and played it and noticed the same thing again, so i decided instead of using the RCA's i used the coaxial, and now the sound effects are back. is my snes wrong or do games play better on coaxial? the same with my NES, the audio is low on the games and later the volume starts to go all the way up while using RCA, but when using coaxial everything works normal.
at last, i have a copy of star fox assault that i bought used on gamestop. the first minutes of the game have a cutscene where everyone talks. however, i cant hear the dialoge, just the background music. is my game broken? did i mess up something? is it because i play my game on the wii? who knows, maybe i have a weird collectors item (that i would gladly sell) haha
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It may be your TV. Coaxial on all classic consoles is in Mono only meaning if the console is in Stereo like the SNES all the sound channels get combined into one channel on the Coax connection. However that doesn't explain the NES since it's in Mono as well.
And I bet years ago if you played it on a different TV, it most likely was a one speaker (Mono) TV since Stereo wasn't the standard till the late 80's early 90's. Even if it was a Stereo TV, Mono comes through as a louder signal and on a Stereo TV it's two times louder since it's two speakers. Also TV's back then had better speakers as well.
Composite video (Yellow) is actually a step up from coax since it separates the audio and video and puts them on individual wires.
Ask for playing StarFox on the Wii, the Wii is emulating the game so sound can be screwed up since it's not 100% perfect emulation.
I still say it's your TV.
lcvolt:
thanks. my tv is kinda old, but not that much. maybe from 2001. i still have it because i like the size, small plasma tv's suck, i hate them, specially for gaming. big lcd tvs are ok, but not for retro gaming