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Okay, here's the basic gist of things:
1) I own a silver PAL Gamecube, first obtained for my birthday back in 2003.
2) It is therefore old enough to sport the digital output port on the back.
3) It is not modded in any way, so any burnt discs or import titles would have to be loaded through GCOS or similar.
4) The official component cable is said to provide the best video quality available, but was marketed very poorly by Nintendo for some reason.
5) So poorly in fact, that it was only available through mail-order and in very limited quantities.
6) And then Nintendo rendered it useless for future GC units by removing the digital output port from said future GC units.
7) To top it all off, no PAL titles are said to support 480p output at all.
8) Not that it stops people from hawking the component cables on eBay for overly inflated prices that rarely ever seem to total below £100 including shipping.
9) Mind you, I also own a red Wii console which can also output component, and for which cables are a lot more common and thus cheaper.
10) Some people reckon that GC outputs component a lot better for GC games than Wii can, though.
Okay, so to really take advantage of the component cable, I would have to obtain NTSC versions of my games, preferably in ISO/GCM form so that I can scrub them and run them off an SD card using Swiss. Given the extra hassle involved in this process (load SD Media Launcher, wait for it to let you use the menu, load Swiss, faff around with Swiss settings, choose game, wait for it to load, cross fingers that it'll work without problems etc), I'm beginning to wonder to myself whether I should still try to shell out the cash for a component cable on eBay for the sake of actual digital quality (since nothing else seems to take advantage of the digital port). Can anyone with experience in all things Nintendo and component shell out some handy advice? Thanking you.
1) I own a silver PAL Gamecube, first obtained for my birthday back in 2003.
2) It is therefore old enough to sport the digital output port on the back.
3) It is not modded in any way, so any burnt discs or import titles would have to be loaded through GCOS or similar.
4) The official component cable is said to provide the best video quality available, but was marketed very poorly by Nintendo for some reason.
5) So poorly in fact, that it was only available through mail-order and in very limited quantities.
6) And then Nintendo rendered it useless for future GC units by removing the digital output port from said future GC units.
7) To top it all off, no PAL titles are said to support 480p output at all.
8) Not that it stops people from hawking the component cables on eBay for overly inflated prices that rarely ever seem to total below £100 including shipping.
9) Mind you, I also own a red Wii console which can also output component, and for which cables are a lot more common and thus cheaper.
10) Some people reckon that GC outputs component a lot better for GC games than Wii can, though.
Okay, so to really take advantage of the component cable, I would have to obtain NTSC versions of my games, preferably in ISO/GCM form so that I can scrub them and run them off an SD card using Swiss. Given the extra hassle involved in this process (load SD Media Launcher, wait for it to let you use the menu, load Swiss, faff around with Swiss settings, choose game, wait for it to load, cross fingers that it'll work without problems etc), I'm beginning to wonder to myself whether I should still try to shell out the cash for a component cable on eBay for the sake of actual digital quality (since nothing else seems to take advantage of the digital port). Can anyone with experience in all things Nintendo and component shell out some handy advice? Thanking you.
