Topic: The Official GameCube Thread

@WoomyNNYes yes you can get an AV to HDMI Converter thing pretty cheap from amazon. I use it whenever i want to watch movies for VHS and to play games for my Nintendo Gamecube and old Playstation and Retro Duo Console for NES and Super Nintendo games

the ABLEWE RCA to HDMI Composite Converter thingy is on amazon. Ive been using once since last year and i like it

@WoomyNNYes I haven’t used this one but it’s similar and way cheap. This brand also sell a component cable for the cube which I prefer if your using a upscaler

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EwHjbaL

Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance arrived in the mail a half hour ago this morning.

I love that bit in "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", during Chapter 2, when you get the Puni Orb from the Puni Elder, everyone's all set to rescue the Punis...and literally Mario doesn't get more than a few feet away that the Elder was like "Wait a second, I just remembered" and the poor guy just trips, and I'm like "Oh, WHAT now?!"

TTYD just oozes personality, it's been years since i've played it, but I still remember those little details and just how annoying they made some of the characters that you meet and interact with.

Recently shelled out a pretty penny for Twilight Princess on Gamecube as a treat. I originally bought it on Wii back in 2006, but never finished it. Years later and with the novelty of Wii's controls worn off not long after I first bought the game, I'm playing it as it was meant to be played.

I personally rarely played my GameCube games.
I have more 3rd party games than the 1st party GameCube games considering by these factors:
1. The inflated price for 1st party GameCube game price currently.
2. Some of 3rd party games have better performance on PS2 / XBOX, but sometimes the other 3rd party games have better performance on Gamecube (Robots, Vexx, Sonic Heroes, etc).

Welp - just finished the game, the credits are rolling now. Remarkably, I've done so a day or two after its 18th anniversary. The game is that old now, it would be a legal adult if it were a person!

A good three months and almost 75 hours invested in the game (and a pretty penny paid for it), I can honestly say that was well worth it and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Perhaps my only knock on it would be the final boss battles were quite easy, as were most in the game. Only one (the dragon) really gave me trouble.

recently since last week i jumped back into starting all over for Resident Evil 0. Been a few years since playing the game. forgot how frustrating it is to haul around the hookshot along with a shotgun and trying to haul around puzzle solving key items back and forth

I have a TCL android TV but I can not get the GameCube on either a hdmi port or the AV port. Is there something I need to do to get it working on an android tv

@Ninfan Should be able to just plug straight in. Are you scaling the image at all, or just directly connecting via adaptors/cables? I've had issues in the past with some TVs not being able to handle resolutions below 720p. 'Game Mode' can mess with some old consoles too, so turn that off if your TV has it.

So i got a HDMI adapter with AV-input to HDMI-output on 720p setting and it worked. @dmcc0
but i still think there should be an automatic setting on any stupid tv to do this. Also something really bad with useing japan release gamecube games is, even though you can use free loader to play them on your british/ireland gamecube the full game does'nt show on gamecube here, i'v only seen it with F-ZERO GX- where there's only one character select and 1 racer select, there's no story mode there's no time attack, practice, vs battle. when i loaded same game on a japan gamecube all options where there. just something to really know. @everyone

Recently bought an HDMI upscaler that plugs into the digital port of my Cube so I can play on a big screen 4K TV. It looks pretty damn good, especially with scanlines added (I normally don’t bother for the aesthetic but with this it helps sharpen the image. Double Dash with the kids is great on such a big screen (where each individual player screen is bigger than the whole tv screen I used to play on with my friends 20 years ago!)

I sold my Switch 2 a few months ago due to it not getting much use, but recently I've had a hankering to play some Nintendo games and decided to dig out my old GameCube. It's made me realise that Nintendo's games haven't really evolved much over the last 20+ years. I've been playing things like Star Fox Adventures, Wario World and Animal Crossing and think they hold up extremely well compared to Nintendo's modern games. Even the graphics haven't vastly improved because Nintendo's games are all stylised. I was tempted to get myself another Switch 2 somewhen down the road, but I might just stick with my GameCube for now.

@Bentleyma
GameCube was one of my least favorite Nintendo console I have.
I have around 11 - 20 Gamecube games but I almost never played them recently.
I played my Gamecube games by using Wii machine.
I didn't grow up by Gamecube games when I was teen as I grew up by PS2 games instead so to see archaic games like Animal Crossing, fzero, etc those games didn't even look interesting for me.
Too hard and too many restrictions and punishments. I don't like difficult games like that.
I will say ACNH is the only Animal Crossing I like the most on Switch but I never like older Animal Crossing on Gamecube, NDS and Wii for being too strict by forcing gamers to play the games everyday or the villagers will be lost / moving out by themselves. I hate this gimmick

@Bentleyma I think another way of looking at it is that the GameCube was way ahead of its time in many regards and laid the foundation for many subsequent games in multiple series. If you look at it in context, many decisions did not make sense at the time (e.g. Luigi’s Mansion as a launch game was bizarre back in 2001). Now that we have another 20 years of games it’s easy to say ‘we’ll, these are just iterations of GameCube games’ but the fact is they are like that because the games on the Cube did not get the recognition they probably deserved at the time, but many have been vindicated by history in just how influential they ended up being. It can seem that modern Nintendo games are not that dramatically different but that is largely because of just how influential their GameCube ancestors turned out to be.