Awesome stuff you've just bought (+pics please)

[gct]

I think with how cheap Gamecubes are these days, it's quite a good purchase. It is incredibly easy to add a US/JP region switch, and then you can play Mr.Driller Drill Land, which is well worth dedicating a console to. If you do not own a Wii, you can still enjoy some other good games like F-Zero GX. Congratulations!

[kernow]

Resident evil 4 and REmake for the god damn win

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

Works great as a paperweight .

Hate what? I own one of the damn things and it's obsolete. Wii is backwards compatible and most of the good third party games have seen ports to other platforms. Only reason I can think of owning one is to use it for playing GBA games with the GBA player.

[AKRATEN]

stoked i got this

[Kiel]

Resident evil 4 and REmake for the god damn win

quoted. For the god damn truth.

[Stormwatch]

I own one of the damn things and it's obsolete.

Right now it's the most modern console I own.

Wii is backwards compatible

And far more expensive. And not really much more powerful. And the latest model can't be modded to run GC backups -- except with a device to load ISOs from an external hard disk, and that thing alone is more expensive than a GC. An older model, on the other hand, likely wouldn't come with a MotionPlus.

and most of the good third party games have seen ports to other platforms.

Again, other platforms that I don't have. And the games I wanted the most are GC exclusives.

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

Sorry, man. Forgot you live in the woods. Aren't they still selling the Genesis over there and the PS2 is like cutting edge?

[KBZ]

Works great as a paperweight

Wii is backwards compatible

I own one of the damn things and it's obsolete.

Sorry, man. Forgot you live in the woods. Aren't they still selling the Genesis over there and the PS2 is like cutting edge?

[cools]

Eternal Darkness ftw.

[Jockel]

Eternal Darkness, Killer 7, F-Zero GX, Twilight Princess, Resident Evil 4, MGS The Twin Snakes, P.N.03, Soul Calibur II ftw.

fixed

[CStarFlare]

fools

mario sunshine for the win

[Dragoforce]

Fools.

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee is the only GC game worth playing. The rest is just Nintendo crap.

[Stealthlurker]

Got this adjustable, rotating hdtv stand and height/angle adjustable laptop stand for the sticks. Yeah I like to stretch out the picture like a chump... lol.

oh fuck yes! got a link for that rotating stand, please?

Here you go:

1) Rotating universal mount itself (no stand, RTM-L)

http://www.avcarts.com/Premier-Mounts-R ... .html?cv=2

2) Compatible stand for rotating universal mount (stand, PSD-BW)

http://www.avcarts.com/Premier-Mounts-P ... M1324.html

The pages have PDFs to the manuals or spec sheets. You can also call them to verify if a certain model display is compatible with the universal rotating mount. The mount cannot be used by itself, to say attach it to a wall. It slides onto the poles of a compatible stand. The build quality is very sturdy metal, locking wheel casters, supports of to 60" displays (up to 160lbs), full 360 degree rotation, upward/downward angle tilt via a nice crank (very precise), adjustable display height, etc.

I've been casually looking for something like this for about two years. Up until this one, the things I found were wall mount only (I didn't want to commit to a wall/room), waaaay too expensive ($1,600 and up), fixed vertical only (not too bad, but want clockwise and anticlockwise options), etc etc. So when I finally found this one... I was like hallelujah! haha

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[AKRATEN]

[Dragoforce]

[ZOM]

I see a Climax logo on that Sudeki game, is it the same Climax who did Landstalker or is it the Silent Hill Origins Climax? If it's the former then I really need to track that game down.

Congrats on that Area 88 OST.

[Dragoforce]

Nope, it's the bad Climax company I got the Xbox games for like 5 euro, chances are big that I will never play them. The Area 88 OST is great, but it almost pales in comparison to the Raiden IV OST. Awesome piece of music, gotta love Go Sato.

[Obiwanshinobi]

There's a technically decent PC port of Sudeki, once would-be-Zelda-killer-Xbox-seller of a game. Mouse+WSAD combo in FPP mode arguably gives it an edge over the original, although it's still playable with a joypad on the PC.

Fools.

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee is the only GC game worth playing. The rest is just Nintendo crap.

U-huh, GameCube has, like, NOTHING on Sudeki. Nothing.

[The Coop]

Picked up Chrono Trigger (cart only, working battery, great shape), Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (complete, very nice shape given the crappy box Sega put it in) and a free copy of Ace Combat 6 (no box or manual, but in pretty good shape... and hey, it's free), all for $28 at a garage sale. I really need to get a 360 so I can play the three games for it that I now own.

[ryu]

[jonny5]

dont listen to those guys...i just got my first gamecube a few weeks back just to play fzero gx finally....

why would i buy a wii, just to play a gamecube game? it cost me like $30 for the gamecube, a memory card and the game

[Obiwanshinobi]

Aren't component cables for the GC rare/expensive? Not big deal in PAL territories where your TV most likely has a SCART socket (unless you MUST have progressive scan), though.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Playing F-Zero GX on a NGC console with a modded JPN NGC D-Terminal to VGA adapter cable looks super sexy...runs at 60fps arcade spec framerate in glorious 480p.

In Japan, GC users had the choice of using either a component video or D-Terminal based cable for higher resolution. The price of a typical GC component video cable has gone downhill in recent years. I do recall seeing the GC Component Video cable up for sale when the GC console first made it's official U.S. debut.

According to Nintendo of America, less than 1% of all North American based GC owners actually used/bought the optional Component Video cable (so they removed the necessary Digital I/O port on the later production GC consoles that was used for it).

When I bought my second-hand GC console from Game Crazy back in the day, I made sure that it had the required Digital I/O port in place. Couldn't settle for composite video nor S-Video formats when playing those progressive-scan enabled GC games. There were a few S-Video based VGA boxes released for the GC but they were subpar at best.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[jonny5]

looks fine with the svideo cable i was using with my snes, which i also grabbed in the last 6 months so i could play fzero and uniracers.....lol...the snes was twice as much as the gamecube

i dont play consoles often enough to warrant putting much cash into them....a component cable for the GC would probably be 3-4times as much as the system and game cost me

[Skykid]

dont listen to those guys...i just got my first gamecube a few weeks back just to play fzero gx finally....

Good call dude, GX is just too good.

[jonny5]

dont listen to those guys...i just got my first gamecube a few weeks back just to play fzero gx finally....

Good call dude, GX is just too good.

fast as fuck and pretty hard....but ya...cant believe this game is from 2003....so awesome!!

[Damocles]

Fools.

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee is the only GC game worth playing. The rest is just Nintendo crap.

How does it compare to "Save the Earth"? I've been in a Godzilla mood lately, and was going to pick up one for the X-Box.

[Jockel]

dont listen to those guys...i just got my first gamecube a few weeks back just to play fzero gx finally....

Good call dude, GX is just too good.

fast as fuck and pretty hard....but ya...cant believe this game is from 2003....so awesome!!

You wouldn't believe how awesome it looks in 480p.
That's definitely a pro of the Wii, you can get component cables for 5$.

Oh god i love GX, i played through every cup in GX on Master (even the unlockable AX Cup).
New game for Wii or 3DS, nao!
kthxbai.

[Dragoforce]

Fools.

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee is the only GC game worth playing. The rest is just Nintendo crap.

How does it compare to "Save the Earth"? I've been in a Godzilla mood lately, and was going to pick up one for the X-Box.

I haven't played Save the Earth more than a few minutes so I can't really compare between the two. Melee is absolutly awesome in multiplayer, not so much in single-player mode.

[Slump]

Finally getting around to starting my super famicom collection...