Wii HDMI Adapter Comparison - Generic/Mayflash/Electron Shepherd
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is a video comparing the HDMI adapters you can buy online. Aliensqueakytoy made a similar video to this, but I also wanted to add the Generic adapter and the Electron Shepherd adapter (as well as showcase the Mayflash/Generic in full color ranges).
Here's their video: • HDMI Adapter Compariso...
Capture Card used: Elgato HD60S
Game used: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GCN)
Price-points for all of the Adapters (All USD, including shipping):
Generic: ~$9.00
Mayflash: ~$17.00
Electron Shepherd: ~$30.00
Some notes:
- The Generic Adapter seems to have a reddish tint.
- The Mayflash and Shepherd have a greenish tint (This is normal from the Wii, the component output of the Wii has a greenish tint naturally). However, the Shepherd's green tint is a lot more prominent.
- The Mayflash and Generic ones are easy to find online on Amazon or other sites. However, the Shepherd is made by one person and you need to go to the Electron Shepherd website.
- My Shepherd may be defective. You may notice in some of the comparisons, there's some color flickering.
- When setting the Mayflash or Generic adapters to full range, you need to decrease the brightness slightly. Not by much, but this will ensure the dark-gray areas (notably when the screen goes black) actually are black.
My Opinion:
- The Mayflash is probably the best bang for your buck, if you are able to set the color range on your capture card to full. It's counter-intutive to do this, as the Wii only supports limited color ranges, but I think the Mayflash and Generic ones actually shrink it when set to limited.
- The Generic adapter is perfectly functional and usable, but if you care about the quality, then do not get it.
- It's hard to reccomend the Shepherd at $30, espeically since mine is likely defected. If you are really into getting the best possible quality out of your Wii, either look to HDMI hardware mods, or use Component with a Retrotink 5x.
heads up I'm probably going to remake this video in the future. I have a much stronger pc and can compare dolphin as well, and for some reason my new PC does not need to set the capture card to full range on OBS to get accurate colors
Thanks for this comparison man, I love you ❤
What do you mean by full range tho I thought the Wii was only capable of 16-235 rgb?
It is, but I believe the generic/mayflash adapters shrink the color range further, so setting it to full gives ot the correct color range back.
@@Draconif huh, good to know, I never tried it, I will definitely check it out.
@@Draconif It doesn't work like that. If the source outputs in limited, then the TV should be set to limited. Setting it to full will make it brighter but you're causing inaccurate colors. The Wii is only capable of RGB Limited range so your TV or monitor should be set to either auto or limited. This will most likely be called Black Level on your TV, in which case it should be Low but compare Low and Auto and if Auto always looks like Low, then you're good!
The ElectronSheperd does look slightly better to me
So this video is a little deceiving. Both are good adapters and pretty close to each other when using RGB Limited. The Wii outputs in RGB Limited Range only and so will any adapter. You should not just enable Full range to make the picture brighter. On TVs, this RGB Range should match with Black Level. Black Level Low = Limited, Normal = Full. Leaving this to Auto "should" do it but feel free to experiment. Also, only showcasing a dark game does not give the whole story. You should be comparing New SMB Wii as well. You might actually see that Full is too much. I actually went through this testing now having both adapters and both work about the same, giving a slight edge to the Electron Shepard. It is slightly darker in games like Metroid Prime but quite bright in NSMBW with better black. Also, this same Wii has an HDMI GCVideo mod which I can switch to RGB-Full but I stay with RGB-Limited. The Electron Shepard adapter is closer to the HDMI mod as is but darker. I have not tweaked the brightness settings in GCVideo.
I recently got a new PC and discovered I no longer have to set the capture card to full range anymore to get accurate colors. I'm not sure what changed.
@@Draconif Disclaimer, not an expert but I've learned a lot on this subject in the last few days and of course I check multiple sources. And having just gotten the Electron Shepard, I search for comparison videos. RGB range/black levels define were black starts and white finishes. Full range is 0 to 255 while limited range is 16 to 235. The Wii outputs its darkest black at 16. If the monitor/tv is set to full range, 16 is not the blackest black, its more gray. 235 is not the brightest white, 255 is. When the Wii pushes out the brightest white, its at 235. Something displaying at Limited range doesn't translate. Its not going to take that 16 and make 0 the darkest black and 255 the brightest white. If you have a Switch, you can better test this. This is what I did to compare. You can set the Switch to Auto, Limited or Full. Pick a games or games that have a wide range of bright colors and dark colors. SMB and Metroid Prime Remastered would be a good test. Compare what RGB Full and Black Level normal look against RGB Limited and Black Level Low. They will look pretty close. Now if you mix them, you get a darker than normal picture and a brighter than normal picture depending on the mix. What I did find interesting with my testing, the black level adjustment was grayed out with the Mayflash adapter but with the Electron Shepard, I could change them. Auto set black level to Low, Normal was too washed out. This means that TVs should be set to Auto or low black level or RGB limited for PC monitors which I assume the same holds true for capture cards. There are games that have a brightness calibration where you set the brightness to where you can barely see the image. I don't know of any Wii games that have this but I'd look at the Resident Evils or other horror games for the best chance.
Good comparison vid, Mayflash Full tops everything, imo
@Draconif have you tested out the ElectronPulse - Playstation 2 and 3 from Electron Shepherd?
Two things: When you say 'set the generic/mayflash to full range', there is no setting on the device so you mean the TV?
If you think your Electron Shepard adapter is defective, email them. I've emailed them before and they are quite helpful and would probably replace the adapter or tell you that is the Wii. You should test on a TV that has both Component and HDMI to compare.
Let's go with the Mayflash, as the Shepherd is just too expensive when shipping into Europe. I'm just not spending 40€ for a wii2hdmi.
mayflash goated as always
doesnt work.