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Topic: Wii U two monitors?

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Baefisch

Hello,

is it possible to configure 2 monitors to the wii u?
I wan´t to play mario kart 8 on 2 differtent screens. So that both players have they own monitor.

Does it work with an hdmi splitter?

Baefisch

jump

If you use a splitter it may work but it would still display a multiplayer split screen on both TVs, you may aswell just use the gamepad and TV tho as it's the same thing.

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Octane

I won't work. I don't know if the screen gets cloned or stretched. But even if it stretches across two screens, your Wii U cannot tell the difference between a regular HDMI cable and a splitter, so you'll end up with a screen that looks really flat. You'll end up with something like this;

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Baefisch

but if i use the same 2 monitors?
the wii u thinks its a resolution of 3960 * 1080.

so far is i know wii u uses amd eyefinity.
This is exactly what i am looking for..

I´ve played the wii dolphin emulator with eyefinity and two screens.

didn´t anybody tried this before?
Where do you get this screenshot? Is there any article?

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rolLTheDice

I don't think the Wii U thinks anything of it. It will probably output the image with a resolution of 1920 × 1080.
A splitter should output the exact same image to the two monitors.
Never tried it myself though and i dunno if the resolution would get worse when outputted by the splitter.

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LzWinky

The Wii U is not configured to work with a splitter, so your idea will not work

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Octane

I don't think anyone has tried it before. I cannot find a single article concerning this problem. The image is just a stretched image I made myself, (well, I just stretched it..). I don't know how the Wii U would handle such resolutions. The screen might stay the same, get centered, and you'll end up with two black bars on either side. I think you should try it yourself, but I honestly doubt it'll end up the way you want it to.

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Hy8ogen

Meh, I don't have the money for 2 TVs anyways

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Jmaster

Baefisch wrote:

the wii u thinks its a resolution of 3960 * 1080.

so far is i know wii u uses amd eyefinity.
This is exactly what i am looking for..

Nope. No console supports eyefinity, because they are all designed to use a single screen. Using a splitter might clone or stretch the HDMI-output across two screens, depending on the splitter you use. Either way, it'd be useless, your best bet is to buy a bigger TV or hope that Nintendo rolls out an update to make splitscreen work like it does in SASRT.

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Get a 2nd Wii U for the 2nd screen and play each other online, lol.

That brings up a good question. Will Nintendo ever include LAN support for their games? It's a little annoying that we have to play online just to play with someone next to us on a different Wii U.

Granted, the only Nintendo console to have LAN support was the GameCube, and that was limited to very few games.

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The next generation of Gaming... 3 Screens!!!!

But then Sony and MS will make their own tri-screen systems... this time with four screens!

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In a few years we will have a system that uses a full sphere of screens, with the user sitting inside the sphere.

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brewsky wrote:

iphys wrote:

Get a 2nd Wii U for the 2nd screen and play each other online, lol.

That brings up a good question. Will Nintendo ever include LAN support for their games? It's a little annoying that we have to play online just to play with someone next to us on a different Wii U.

Granted, the only Nintendo console to have LAN support was the GameCube, and that was limited to very few games.

Considering the Wii U has no means of doing this...or enough people caring enough for them to support it...no

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