EON Is Launching A Successor To Its Popular GameCube HD Adapter

Gamecube is love.
Love is also gamecube.

I am going to grab this since I still have everything for my gamecube including my gameboy player and like 50 GBA games with mint boxes and manuals <3.

Nice, but a bit pricey. A second hand Wii with a component cable will suffice for most purposes (excluding the Gameboy Player and Phantasy Star Online).

@1UP_MARIO I haven't seen better marriage vows than these.

Why no spice?!?! Ugh.... Just kidding.

Ill just use my wii.

is it made by the electric company ?

Meh save your money and just get the CARBY which offer pretty much the same experience with a better price and value.

@Jokerwolf you’re a closet millionaire

@Snakesglowcaps Nah, I just kept all of my stuff when I was a kid/teenager and hated throwing out game boxes.

@retro_player_22 over half the price without the fancy box and packaging.

Anybody interested the original device is absolutely worth the money.

Nintendo's most overrated console by a mile.

I have GCvideo - it's a wonderful piece of kit & produces an amazing image. I still prefer a good prog scan CRT because the CRT is 'kinder' to the image, resulting in a smoother image with less pixelation without loss in clarity.

@Maulbert Interesting to here someone say that - I think it's has a very worthwhile library.

@andykara2003 To my mind, it had a bad controller (I don't know why people love it so much), the worst main series Mario game, a Zelda game I found to be boring and tedious (Windwaker is gorgeous, but the dungeons suck and the Triforce hunt is awful), and the worst Mario Kart game until the Wii U release of 8 (they fixed 8 on the Switch). I give it Metroid Prime, but Prime 2 was terrible, and I don't care about Smash Bros. or Resident Evil. I have no opinion on Paper Mario, I have only played Super Paper Mario in the series, which I did love.

Problem still is PAL users can't get any progessive scan out of their units without owning the means to run Swiss on it, and SDGecko or compatible Action Replay stuff that allows for that are ridiculously rare and expensive these days.

Great for North American and Japanese users, but useless for pretty much everyone else.

@RudyC3 you can buy sd media launcher for 20 pounds straight from datels site but your right we have to go through more hoops

Wait, 150 dollars?! When I bought the original I paid far less, only about 100! And no, it's not some other brand, it definitely was the GCHD from EON.

Would love something like this for the N64. Is this solution really better than getting the much cheaper Wii hdmi adapter and playing GC games through that?

@1UP_MARIO Sorry about the multi-posting, thank you mate, I found it, I should have looked at the codejunkies site, not Datel's. That's amazing, thanks a bunch!

@Jokerwolf This and 2 cheaper options yet all use the same internal firmware and design. Save some money and pay $100 or less for the same experience, I did.

The look of the HD GC output is stunning. You'll be blown away at the detail lost to the crappy SD limitations. Rogue Squadron is a must to fire up first to see the detail on the all ships as it's insane.

@retro_player_22 I'm backing this guy up too here.

I got in when it first popped up from ZeldaXPro for $100 and in a less pretty looking nearly black zippo ligher shaped plug on its 3rd revision and it I don't regret one bit. But had Carby been out then with it having the remote and lower price — most definitely the best buy. The EON People are just snakeoil salesmen having a notably higher cost with a fluffy pretty box and 3D shell to the device along with some gamer suckups being their sponsor to lure in people to pay a lot more.

Don't be fooled, there are equally nice cheaper options that came before and after it.

@VmprHntrD How is latency on these equally nice and cheaper options?

Sounds cool!

*sees $150 price tag

...well so much for that!

@Rubbercookie All the same. The internal hardware the same parts. It was designed by a group of people a couple of years ago or so and it's all open source and file material, so anyone can actually make one if they choose to. The device doesn't add input lag/latency issues to the games where they're worse for wear as they are using SD style cables into an HDTV can do.

The GC digital out of the rear port is a pure digital output, and the special device here takes that direct feed and spits it out on your screen without having to add layers of processing and resampling to a resolution the TV can handle like SD cables do. Nintendo's own cable which took years to crack which got us to this thing has a block on it too which does this processing, but still at SD levels which is great for CRT, but still equally awful as an RCA cable on HD.

You honestly are just paying for fluff. EON gives you an expensive custom made box, a fluffy 3D printed shell that costs even more, and then you're paying for all their advertising and other peddling budgets on top of just making the actual device. ZeldaXPro who was out first for $100 (vs $150) just sells a basic device that's 3D printed with the board inside, and with an IR port so you can use a universal remote. And then Carby comes along with a basic but nicer case, standard cardboard box with minimalist ink on it, but they do include a cheap basic remote in the box and it's $75.

So really it's up to you how much you want to blow for the same internal hardware as you're basically paying for fluff you'll never look at anyway hiding in back of your Gamecube.

Here's the original source of this device: https://github.com/ikorb/gcvideo Search around a little more with google, you can find pictures and schematics to make your own if you like.

@VmprHntrD Thanks, $75 is far more along the line of what I am willing to pay for something like this.

@VmprHntrD That's great info, cheers!

@Rubbercookie @JayJ No problem. Just trying to help people not get sucked into being ripped off for a lot more money for the same internal product. I mean if someone knows that and wants to pay higher out of some weird need to support a company over another, that's cool.

I think NintendoLife goes out of the way to try and sell overpriced EON goods as it keeps coming up and it's tiresome. It's not right to ignore 2 equally viable quality products that work the same and are basically the same internally. Perhaps they have some advertising kickback tied up into it.