Hyperkin HD Cable for Wii

It has its own power built in to the cable and provides a great picture!

works for the original wii! Connects your wii to the hdmi port so you can have sound and color. Easy to plug in and start playing. Best value I found. Buy now for some nostalgia and start playing your fav games all over again!

Hyperkin is always killing it. I have their Hyperkin cable for my original XBOX and it’s always been amazing! Any gamer should spend the extra money on Hyperkin HDMIs for their PS1-2/XBOX-360/Wii-Wii U/ Etc. I mainly use those. The controllers are amazing too! I have some of those. Overall Hyperkin is the new Madcatz. They ruled the 90’s and 2000’s. 10/10!

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/B00423GLWWhttps://www.amazon.com/Portta-SPETRH-Component-Converter-Uncompressed/dp/B00LPHJE5EThe 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 bought this adapter to convert my Wii to HDMI as efficiently and as high quality as possible without paying crazy prices. For the price, this adapter is extremely high quality. The picture quality as very crisp, audio is clear and rich, setup is super easy, barely an inconvenience, and the cord is long enough to reach most setups without an extension.It does come with a catch though. As pointed out by other reviewers here (thanks guys), the left and right audio channels are flipped. If you're running mono (who even does that anymore) or don't care about audio, this probably isn't an issue. However, for the audiophiles out there, this is a major concern. Playing Star Wars: Rogue Leader and hearing the TIE Fighter fly around one way and hear it flying the other way is really annoying. BUT!!!! There is a fix. If you open the box portion of the cable, cut, swap, and resolder the correct wires, you can fix the problem no issue. I did it, probably took me an hour or less, and now it works great. It also forced me to learn basic soldering, a skill I have now to use for other projects. Annoying as it was, I do think it was worth it to have this premium of a cable for this good of a price.In short: great cable, great quality; major flaw, but can be fixed relatively easily.Would recommend, but only if you're willing to put in the effort to make it what it should have been out of the box.Hope you all have fun with this, will update with links to research and more info on how to do this yourself.

I have a Sony bravia TV, No issues getting it set up. The image is alittle fuzzy but that's because we aren't used to seeing much of 480p any more but changing the settings to 480p from 480i on the WII it self seemed to help crisp up the image quality and there seeems to be no lag, no tearing and no image crashing. The Audio is perfect! With electronics and cables you really do get what you pay for as long as your TV or Monitor allows for 480p image! Worth the price and everything 🥰

It works, but has some horizontal line issues right on top of the screen.