Can the Wii do widescreen (not 480p) with composite cables?

[Mr. Anderson]

I'm going to New Mexico for Thanksgiving, and my grandpa has a projector in the living room and a widescreen tube TV in a bedroom. Will I be able to play Zelda in widescreen with the pack-in cables? Also, will the Wii work on a projector? Would I just set the motion sensor bar at the bottom of the wall?

 

[rabidmonkeys]

I dont know about the projector, I was wondering the same thing. But, I can tell you that it does do 16x9 at 480i

 

[botticus]

For the project, you just need to have the sensor bar on the floor under the projector, and it should work. The trick is getting the bar there.

 

[thorbahn3]

Yes you can use widescreen TVs. Just go to the options menu on the Wii main menu and go to screen. Select widescreen and it should work.

 

[cleaver]

yes to widescreen

 

[anderton]

Yes to widescreen and yes to the projector.

 

[tomfoolery]

i'm using widescreen with the stock av cables and it's great!

T. Foolery

 

[io]

[quote name='tomfoolery']i'm using widescreen with the stock av cables and it's great!

T. Foolery[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I saw that the widescreen option was there but the pro scan was greyed out. I had no idea you could do widescreen through composite. I set it up that way and have been playing it as such. I can never be sure if things really are widescreen, though, as I'm so used to watching TV and playing games with the stretch mode on - when I put it in 4:3 mode it looks wierd to me now (like on normal TV shows, for example). I have always played GC games stretched to widescreen so when I play something like Mario Sunshine in the 4:3 mode I'm amazed at how skinny Mario really is . So, anyway, I can't tell if my Wii really is running in widescreen - I guess I can turn it off and see if it looks more stretched out then.