Wii VGA cable by Vdigi

[RyokoYaksa]

Taken from the CAG forums, I figure this product might interest a few people here.
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VDigi, the makers of a competent Component to VGA box, have just released a new product - the VD-W2 VGA cable for the Wii.

It's certainly not as robust as the X2vga 2, or even VDigi's own VD-Z3, but it's the cheapest way I've seen to get the Wii onto your basic computer monitor (or projector with VGA input). It's $40, and games must support progressive scan (more of an issue for GCN backward compatibility). According to the website, there are only 50 of them to start with.
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The green cable outputs a low-bandwidth black & white interlaced image to any composite (yellow) video input in case the game you are using does not immediately boot in progressive scan (in which case no image will appear through the VGA input). Why they couldn't just make this a composite video cable is beyond me.

A neat little product, but for $40... eh. If the $60 X2VGA-2 is all it's cracked up to be I may just consider getting one of those for all of my component-progressive devices.

 

[ChRed2AKrisp]

Interesting. Using a 22" widescreen LCD monitor appeals to my wii.

wait WTF, the VGA head should have pins, the monitor never has pins. how the **** does thing connect to your monitor?

 

[RyokoYaksa]

A gender changer adapter needs to be used with it. A standard male-male VGA cable that you'd use to connect a monitor to a PC works just as well. I don't know why exactly VGA output cables require a gender changer. The official Xbox 360 VGA cable needs one as well, and comes bundled with one.

 

[ChRed2AKrisp]

oy yeah, forgot male-female terminology. thanks for that though

 

[Rebel581]

Sorry to revive this topic, but the female-female cables don't seem like they'll work correctly and the sound cables to plug it into speakers don't seem to be included. I'm contemplating buying this and would like to know what came with it and how well it works from anyone who's gotten it. I've got a 20" widescreen computer monitor and my TV is only 14" so I'd really like to play my Wii games on the computer screen.