GC Component Cable Upgrade

[fastbilly1]

Wouldnt it be easier to hack a Dterminal adapter to VGA?

Personally, I just bought Wii component cables and run my GC games on it in Progressive Scan mode. I cheaped out, but I dont like spending $100ish on cables (that are not over 100 feet long or are 3g SDI).

[CRTGAMER]

Wouldnt it be easier to hack a Dterminal adapter to VGA?

I saw a not a Gamecube but a Wii D Terminal cable for five bucks and was debating this. I think the Sync on Green might be an issue.

[skate323k137]

VGA will only work with the games that support progressive scan, which is not many. It would look awesome, but IMO it's not worth sacrificing a component cable to do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ni ... :9_support
~200 480p games out of ~450 released games? (kind of quick counted)
So like almost half of them support 480p. Surprising, I thought it was way more than that.
It should be possible to make the cable do both Component and VGA, perhaps even with a switch.

Holy crap, I didn't realise that many games supported 480p, that's awesome! I have an extra ps2 with a HDD in it that I use for the handful of games that support 480p, hooked to a nice 21" CRT that supports sync-on-green. The games that run on it look amazing. Kinda wish I hadn't sold my gamecube component cable now, but it contributed to buying my sega NAOMI, so I can't complain.

[gtmtnbiker]

From my experience, pretty much all of the good/popular games supported progressive scan. The only ones that didn't that I can think of was Luigi Mansion and Mario Party 4. The wiki lists MP4 as 480p but I think that's wrong.

Are there any other **good** games that didn't support 480p?

If you look at the back cover of Mario Party 4, it doesn't list Progressive Scan



I remember the game having a grainy look.

[dogman91]

I'm definitely looking for one of these cables! It's really too bad they're so expensive... Every Gamestop I checked didn't have any either.

I've been seeing a lot of examples on how it's sharper than the Wii's component so that would be really interesting to check out first hand!

Related side question: I got a Game Boy Player recently and it appears the filter for Soft, Normal, and Sharp don't even work at all with S-video cables; they're all the same "Soft" setting! I heard this can be FPS-related instead of video filtering-related but at the end of the day the Gamecube adds a softening bilinear filtering effect that looks terrible. I read that using the component cable allows the filter to be turned off for unaltered pixels, though I'd like to use an interlaced mode for it so I can turn off a scanline in the TV service menu to get a 240p effect with my standard definition TV... doesn't even matter in the end though if a softening filter is used. Does anyone know if the Game Boy Player HAS to be set to progressive with the component cables for this to work?

[ExedExes]

So basically its either eBay, GameStop, or bust?

Just started looking around for them myself. No way they cost as much as a rare sealed game these days ($100 and up!) Geez.

[theclaw]

From my experience, pretty much all of the good/popular games supported progressive scan. The only ones that didn't that I can think of was Luigi Mansion and Mario Party 4. The wiki lists MP4 as 480p but I think that's wrong.

Are there any other **good** games that didn't support 480p?

If you look at the back cover of Mario Party 4, it doesn't list Progressive Scan



I remember the game having a grainy look.

That's not a perfect indicator. Several games don't list it there. Super Smash Bros Melee, Super Monkey Ball 2, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle...

Wario Ware is probably the one you're thinking of without 480p. Not Mario Party.

[dtrack]

I've experimented with nonbranded RGB cables - they are awful. i had a chance to buy an original cable and wow! I am curious if is there any difference between RGB and component? Can someone compare? Colors and resolution looks perfect and sharp without any blur or fuzziness and i don't think component would be an upgrade.
The only thing i noticed in Soul Calibur 2 in Widescreen mode the screen is not that wide. On a 80 cm LCD TV there are 2 black bars at the sides (not that bad it's like 2 cm each). It may be the difference?

[DinnerX]

http://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.ph ... ility_List

Swiss can apparently force some games to run at 480p. I haven't got the cords to test it out though.

EDIT: If someone here has the time to test games and the equipment for it, I'm sure GC forever would appreciate having their NTSC compatibility list expanded.

[theclaw]

I've experimented with nonbranded RGB cables - they are awful. i had a chance to buy an original cable and wow! I am curious if is there any difference between RGB and component? Can someone compare? Colors and resolution looks perfect and sharp without any blur or fuzziness and i don't think component would be an upgrade.
The only thing i noticed in Soul Calibur 2 in Widescreen mode the screen is not that wide. On a 80 cm LCD TV there are 2 black bars at the sides (not that bad it's like 2 cm each). It may be the difference?

You need hacked or NTSC game versions. Component only makes a difference that way. 480p was individually removed from each specific title by PAL game developers, rather tedious job that had little to no benefit for users.