Removing the blur seems to bring up the same problems retro games designed to be displayed on CRTs have where the developer anticipated a certain level of blurriness and so they didn’t add any sort of anti-aliasing to their games.

The stretch is clearly taken into account for the final image, you can see that circular or square items are elongated once you return them to the original output. Unfortunate as it does look a lot clearer, but it is what it is.

Hi GVG do you know any way I can make my copy of Twilight Princesss even MORE blurred and stretched? Would love a follow up episode so I can play it at it's most optimal aesthetic!!

2:23 the fix

I would also like to mention that you should turn on the 480p pixel patch for even better clarity (mostly in text), especially if you have an earlier model Wii.

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In Mario Kart Wii with the framebuffer aspect ratio, it kind of makes stuff look skinnier. Mario looks slimmer than he should be and the item slot gui icon looks noticeably less square. I think you're definitely right and the intent differs from game to game, but personally I'd probably leave the stretch on for this reason.

With this, just as with the SNES, I am in the camp of "the output resolution is more correct than the internal resolution", as devs should have taken the stretch into account and that's what the games were viewed at at the time.

I mean the Wii does have an option to be played in 4:3 as well as 16:9 in the standard menu, it was released at a weird time where CRTs were still in use everywhere but widescreen HD TVs were becoming more popular, I think towards the end of the Wii's life those games were definitely developed with the stretching in mind because widescreen TVs had become more commonplace by then

I wouldn't recommend the framebuffer setting personally, because the games were made with that bit of horizontal stretch in mind. Removing the stretching leaves you with an image that appears squashed a bit, and characters and such are noticeably skinnier looking.

Twilight definitely looks like they took the stretching into consideration. Without it Link looked really skinny.

Uhh john using brawl was a bad example because that game let you turn off deflicker without modding anyway, its in the games options, I'm also pretty sure some games don't use it at all since tomb raider underworld looks very sharp playing on my unmodified wii u.

RE4.  Now the sight scope is squished.

One thing to keep in mind is that if you own a Retrotink or Ossc you can use them to correct the aspect ratio without making it as blurry as the framebuffer does.

We can see that RE4 take the stretch in consideration, the scope is not a circle anymore, same for the health counter on the HUD, and I kinda think it is too for MK Wii, because the box for items on the top left is now a rectangle with framebuffer, the box is taller, or, thiner depending on how you see your cup half filled or half empty x).

Video width might show what the console is actually rendering, showing a more crisp image, but the games were designed with 16:9 in mind, at least some of them, so the game is squashed. I'm playing Sin and Punishment 2 and I only have to look at any circle or square, they look wrong. Anyway, just the removal of the deflicker is already an improvement, so this is nice to know.

I could tell you literally anything about the Wii and I was not aware of this. Thanks so much, the Wii is my favorite console ever and now it will look even better!

While I definitely prefer the image without the deflicker, I can't help but feel Nintendo didn't make it an option because they liked the way it hid how low-res the screen output was. The second you turn it off, while you can see WAY more detail, the staircase effect and overall aliasing can be a bit grating. It seemed to fit the purpose of something akin to FXAA; a post-processing filter than doesn't impact performance.

I was always a bit miffed on the image quality of Wii games, as I knew it wasn't really completely an issue with the system itself as Gamecube games still looked great on it, so I didn't know what the deal was

Didn't know there was anything left for the Wii modding community to do, this is an amazing upgrade. Looking forward to booting it up this weekend.