Component Cable on a Gamecube without a Digital Port?

[noiseredux]

I'll take the non-Firmware update Cube

this.

[gtmtnbiker]

Given the obscene expense of the Gamecube component cable, it makes more sense to buy a Wii and a Wii component cable.

You might spend seventy-five to a hundred dollars for a Gamecube component cable. That's half the cost of a Wii already. You can snag an off-brand Wii component cable for less than ten bucks.

Usually you can find it for around $60-75. I do agree that you're better off getting a Wii/component cable instead of buying a GC/component cable. The only real advantage that the cube has is for the GB Player. Everything else, you can do on the Wii.

[noiseredux]

Usually you can find it for around $60-75. I do agree that you're better off getting a Wii/component cable instead of buying a GC/component cable. The only real advantage that the cube has is for the GB Player. Which makes it better than the Wii.

fixed.

[Capcomwarrior]

Not sure, read somewhere that Wii in Gamecube mode is 480i not 480p.

Not true. GC Games that support 480p are also using the same mode on the Wii when using the component cables.

Fantastic!!

I was about to be really pissed off when I first read his comment. I am about to go pick up some GC controllers and games for my fiance's wii, but wouldn't even bother if it wouldn't at least be prog.

[CRTGAMER]

Usually you can find it for around $60-75. I do agree that you're better off getting a Wii/component cable instead of buying a GC/component cable. The only real advantage that the cube has is for the GB Player. Which makes it better than the Wii.

fixed.

Gameboy player, the best peripheral for a non-brickable console.

[gtmtnbiker]

Usually you can find it for around $60-75. I do agree that you're better off getting a Wii/component cable instead of buying a GC/component cable. The only real advantage that the cube has is for the GB Player. Which makes it better than the Wii.

fixed.

Gameboy player, the best peripheral for a non-brickable console.

You can still brick it with a botched modchip install. I think a forum poster (lisalover?) had one ruined.

[Duane Dibbley]

GameCube games look nice in 480p on the Wii. I wish I had gotten a GameCube component cable when Nintendo was still selling them, but I didn't have a component TV at the time. I'm still keeping my GameCube for the Game Boy Player and Broadband Adapter though.

[CRTGAMER]

Gameboy player, the best peripheral for a non-brickable console.

You can still brick it with a botched modchip install. I think a forum poster (lisalover?) had one ruined.

Not the same, just error of solder job. A risk when modding. Bricking comes from firmware detect from Nintendo.

[samsonlonghair]

Given the obscene expense of the Gamecube component cable, it makes more sense to buy a Wii and a Wii component cable.

You might spend seventy-five to a hundred dollars for a Gamecube component cable. That's half the cost of a Wii already. You can snag an off-brand Wii component cable for less than ten bucks.

Usually you can find it for around $60-75. I do agree that you're better off getting a Wii/component cable instead of buying a GC/component cable. The only real advantage that the cube has is for the GB Player. Everything else, you can do on the Wii.

I have to admit I do love my GB Player. I was playing Astro Boy Omega Factor on my big TV last night, and I was loving it. The GB Player is one of the best peripherals ever released (even better than Super Game Boy). It's a damn shame you can't connect the GB Player to a Wii.

There is another option for Wii: Visual Boy Advance GX. I know that emulation is never quite as good as the original hardware, but VBA GX has a lot of cool features. There's a color palette editor for grayscale Game Boy games. You can load ROMs from SD card, from a USB flash drive, from DVD, or from your home network. VBA GX also supports dozens of different controllers. Almost any first-party or third-party controller that you can plug into any port on your Wii will work. There used to be a lot of frameskip issues in older releases, but those have been minimized in the latest release (2.1.5).

I think a softmodded Wii with Visual Boy Advance GX and a cheap component cable is the best way to play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games in component quality. Of course you can only get so much resolution out of a GBA game. Trying to enhance the picture beyond this may be a moot point.

[noiseredux]

I don't understand WHY Ninty hasn't made a Wii-GB Player. It's a major reason why I don't have a Wii. I don't care for emulation, so I just stick to my Cube.

There is somewhat of a Wii option however. The Datel Advance Game Port. (Which I do own as well). It plugs into a Gamecube (so Wii also) memory card slot, but it only plays GBA games -- no GB or GBC. Also, it uses software emulation rather than hardware emulation, so it's not as reliable as the GBPlayer which is the actual GBA hardware. And due to the Datel's software emu, it also doesn't store saves to the game cart, instead it creates savesates on the Datel itself, which means no starting a game on the Wii and then continuing on the GBA. All that aside, I suppose something is better than nothing. Though GB/GBC support would have made a huge difference.