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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - NES Classic Mini vs Wii U Virtual Console - Head-to-Head Emulation Comparison

Miyamotoo on 01 October 2016

It seems that NES Mini is far best place for playing NES games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocGdWRF84Q0



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SuperNova on 01 October 2016

It's pretty insane how badly optimised NES emulation is on WiiU.
NES emulation should be perfect on the WiiU, it's more than capable of doing it but Nintendo doesn't seem to have put much effort into the emulator.



Platina on 01 October 2016

Yes, I saw that, it really show how inferior the Wii U VC is D:



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Zkuq on 01 October 2016

So it's dark and stretched on VC, but works fine on the new thing? I really hope Nintendo puts some more effort into this stuff with NX, because VC sure looks horrible. The new thing on the other hand seems to work just fine.



LivingMetal on 01 October 2016

I've never seen the VC on the WiiU, but I have on the Wii. From what I can tell according to the video, it also looks better on the Wii as well.



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pray4mojo on 01 October 2016

Neither can beat a real NES (one that works anyway) on a CRT though!



HokageTenshi on 01 October 2016

NES Classic Mini stronger than Wii U confirmed



theRepublic on 02 October 2016

What the hell is up with the Wii U VC? I don't think it was that bad on the Wii, was it?



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WagnerPaiva on 02 October 2016
theRepublic said:
What the hell is up with the Wii U VC? I don't think it was that bad on the Wii, was it?

I have Zelda NES on the WiiU VC and it looks good, much better than the NES



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ksv on 02 October 2016

I was wondering the reason for this, because it seems so strange that they would make the Wii emulation so much worse. Someone had an answer in the comments section of youtube:

"It's because Wii and WiiU send the data to the screen using the YUV format, instead of RGB. Nintendo could correct this using shaders on WiiU, but apparently, they never did it"

I don't really know much about the technical standards of color encoding, but this is interesting indeed. Maybe somebody with more technical insight can explain why Wii U uses YUV rather than RGB.