BurningDoom wrote:
Do any other systems of mine do HD (see my signature for a listing of them)? Thanks for any help on this.
Outside of modding...
Gamecube can do 480p with the component cable...which has a proprietary chip in it, and was not widely available, making it fairly pricey (and Nintendo removed the digital port it needs on later Gamecubes).
The Wii can do 480p over component, which is readily available and cheap.
PS2 can do progressive scan (usually 480p) over component - not all games support it, and ones that do may have an in-game toggle, or may just require you to hold Triangle and X when you start them up with just a brief footnote in the manual to let you know.
The PS3 still uses the same component cable, so it shouldn't be hard to find a compatible one.
XBox has 480p (at least) support over component. The official solution is the High Definition AV Pack, which is a breakout box that you can connect whatever actual cables you want to (though the included ones were pretty nice), along with optical audio like the Advanced AV Pack (S-Video breakout box) has. Not dirt cheap, but not usually as ridiculously priced as the Gamecube cable.
IMO...
No real reason for a Gamecube cable unless you're really set on playing Gameboy Player stuff in progressive scan. Just use the Wii to play the games.
Fair warning, HD tends to do to the older 3D games what better audio gear does for listening to music. The additional clarity makes flaws all the more apparent too. Fuzzy SD TVs are vaseline on the virtual lense of a lot of games, even from that era (though the XBox does pretty well for itself).
