I got a Wii shortly before Christmas and it’s a great little machine, with lots of sweet features; one being the “Virtual Console”. This is essentially an emulator for the NES, SNES, Megadrive and PC-Engine with games you can download at a small cost. Nice.

However this brilliant feature doesn’t work on many people’s TVs when using the component cables (as any HDTV owning person should be). It seems when the Wii emulates certain old systems the signal being sent to the TV isn’t compatible and the TV refuses to show it. It only affects PAL models of the Wii (that’s why the internet is not aflame with reports of this) so far Nintendo Europe is ignoring the problem. Good work guys, a potentially brilliant feature ruined by poor and lazy implementation.

This forum thread has lots more details – http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=147964