Just Bought A Gamecube

[merrychan]

1 hour ago, yakumo said:

I'd love to see Viewtiful Joe ports myself. When I go back and watch it on YouTube, it's just oozing with style (I mean, cutscenes are bordered with film reels!), and I really want to play it on something like the Switch. However, I never found it difficult, this isn't a brag but maybe I have to play it again but I just remember just having a blast.

Agreed, I adored the levels it was just the bosses that caught me out massively 

[ontwofronts]

I loved my GameCube, it’s away in the loft. Platinum edition, think Zelda was bundled with it.

[Stifler]

Viewtiful Joe was brilliant, but I remember being stuck at Fire Leo for months - turned out he was fucking easy when you figured out his weakness (like all the bosses!) Man, I really want a remaster (or just an HD release, as bet it'd still look fantastic upscaled!)

 

What's the best way to get a Cube running on a modern TV (or work monitor sat on my desk...)? Mine are all just sitting unloved at the back of the loft

[choddo]

11 minutes ago, Stifler said:

Viewtiful Joe was brilliant, but I remember being stuck at Fire Leo for months - turned out he was fucking easy when you figured out his weakness (like all the bosses!) Man, I really want a remaster (or just an HD release, as bet it'd still look fantastic upscaled!)

 

What's the best way to get a Cube running on a modern TV (or work monitor sat on my desk...)? Mine are all just sitting unloved at the back of the loft

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gamecube-Nintendo-software-Line-Doubling-Kaico/dp/B083RXFNDD

 

Needs a machine that can do prog scan component DIGITAL AV output afaik

[Stifler]

I'll need to check my ports - sure the NTSC cubes will be compatible though, they both did prog scan.

 

Interested to see that the first post in this thread talks about being able to get a GameCube new for £80 back in the day, and the dongle to play it now is £70! (I blame the Tories!) 

[choddo]

They know that their market is the absolute cream of the intelligentsia

[scottcr]

10 hours ago, Haribokart said:

 

I've never played either of these but some kid in school wanted me to come over to his scabby house to see Mario Sunshine, when I told him didn't care about Mario he started crying and complained about me 

 

I always secretly hoped that kid was @scottcr and he's now just biding his time.

wish it was… hahaha… I was 26 when Sunshine came out.

[Ninja Doctor]

I still maintain an original wii is the best GameCube. 
 

Add in Nintendont and you can force 60Hz and widescreen (works particularly well on Skies of Arcadia).

[Colonel Panic]

The best GameCube is one with a GCLoader and Gameboy Player attached. 

[Sumire]

1 hour ago, Ninja Doctor said:

I still maintain an original wii is the best GameCube. 
 

Add in Nintendont and you can force 60Hz and widescreen (works particularly well on Skies of Arcadia).

 

Thing is, it just doesn't look as cool as the original Gamecube, but yes, you are right.

[Ninja Doctor]

Absolutely and the controller ports are in the wrong order and wrong place on a wii. 

[Alex W.]

1 hour ago, Ninja Doctor said:

I still maintain an original wii is the best GameCube. 
 

Add in Nintendont and you can force 60Hz and widescreen (works particularly well on Skies of Arcadia).

I’ve posted about this in the Retro GC thread but I’m 90% sure the PAL ones don’t output PAL GC titles in quite the right aspect ratio.

 

Yes this is a desperate cry for help from a confused perfectionist.

[Calashnikov]

14 hours ago, Shimmyhill said:

 

Three is the magic number but pray tell, do you have the holy trilogy of a Spice one, Purple one and another Spice or Purple one?

And are they stacked on top of each other vertically, more’s the point?  🧐 

[Stifler]

They're all in boxes or carry cases. But rest assured if I ever put them out on display... Actually, I'll probably display just the Spice one!

[Popo]

But the beauty of the Gamecube is that it’s it’s own carry case. 

[Pete]

I remember pointedly using that handle to carry my GC to a friends house. In your face haters, it's a great design. I did that once.

[amc]

Anyone who has the means and inclination needs to try out GC emulation. F-Zero GX, HD textures, Widescreen at 4K 60 is an absolute sight to behold. Was playing it last night in fact, along with the same done to WipEout Fusion on PCSX2. 

 

Some of those old games look incredible at higher resolution. Dolphin really makes the GC catalogue sing on modern tellies.

[Marlowe]

17 hours ago, Oh Danny Boy said:

The GameCube was a strange one, had a bit of a love/hate relationship with it.  Aesthetically it looks great, but it’s design looks very fisherprice so can see how it was off putting for the general audience and it’s tiny disks lacked the space of dvds so deterred many third parties from developing for it. It had some great games from Nintendo but the mainline Nintendo series seemed unusually flawed and unpolished for Nintendo titles. When third parties did put their A game into the Cube they easily produced some of the best games on the system, in fact the Cube is probably the only Nintendo console where your go to games aren’t first party.  Definitely the weakest of the Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox/ GC generation imo. 

 

As a platform for multi-platform games the Gamecube certainly couldn't be recommended, but there were a lot of quality exclusives that made it a perfect complement to having a PS2 or Xbox during that generation. You'd be really hard pressed to say that the Xbox had better exclusives.

[yakumo]

6 hours ago, Ninja Doctor said:

I still maintain an original wii is the best GameCube. 
 

Add in Nintendont and you can force 60Hz and widescreen (works particularly well on Skies of Arcadia).

I prefer the form factor of the Gamecube.

 

Anyway, I remember the Gamecube was the only device we went for a midnight launch. I was at Uni, and my mate James was buying one,  me and Dan were there because we were good friends with each other. Spent the whole night playing Super Monkey Ball, and Rogue Squadron at the Dorms. One of my fondest memories I still cherish.

[Gigawatt]

37 minutes ago, amc said:

Anyone who has the means and inclination needs to try out GC emulation. F-Zero GX, HD textures, Widescreen at 4K 60 is an absolute sight to behold. Was playing it last night in fact, along with the same done to WipEout Fusion on PCSX2. 

 

Some of those old games looks incredible at higher resolution. Dolphin really makes the GC catalogue sing on modern tellies.

F-Zero GX is one of those holy grail games for me that I would dearly love to play again but have no easy way of doing so. I’d also really like to play Wind Waker and Twilight Princess again but as they’re not on Switch I can’t. I’ve been dabbling slightly in getting into emulation recently but my Mac isn’t really up to it. As I don’t have a PC, what would be the cheapest and easiest way to get something capable of emulating GameCube to a good level? I’m happy to use a standard controller. I’ve been eyeing up a steam deck but if a cheaper mini-pc is an option I could consider that instead. 

[Alex W.]

3 hours ago, Pete said:

I remember pointedly using that handle to carry my GC to a friends house. In your face haters, it's a great design. I did that once.

I used to drag it and the composite cables and PSU to lecture rooms with projectors out of hours. The leads just reached if you had the GC directly under the projector.

[Ninja Doctor]

1 hour ago, yakumo said:

I prefer the form factor of the Gamecube.

 

Anyway, I remember the Gamecube was the only device we went for a midnight launch. I was at Uni, and my mate James was buying one,  me and Dan were there because we were good friends with each other. Spent the whole night playing Super Monkey Ball, and Rogue Squadron at the Dorms. One of my fondest memories I still cherish.

I did the midnight launch too. @dumpster sold me a black cube with monkeyball, Luigi’s mansion and rogue leader. Best launch lineup ever. Once Monkey target was unlocked the other games didn’t get a look in. 

[earlymodernsteve]

1 minute ago, Ninja Doctor said:

I did the midnight launch too. @dumpster sold me a black cube with monkeyball, Luigi’s mansion and rogue leader. Best launch lineup ever. Once Monkey target was unlocked the other games didn’t get a look in. 

Didn't work the launch itself but can remember your excitement in the weeks before and after. Lancaster Game nostalgia-fest.

[Mars]

I think dumpster sold me my midnight release copies of Halo 2 & 3 in Lancaster

[earlymodernsteve]

The full set of Lancaster alumni in here now That was truly a golden age for gaming retail. The current shop is 75% Funko Pops and boardgames with increasingly shrinking shelving for video games.

[yakumo]

20 minutes ago, Ninja Doctor said:

I did the midnight launch too. @dumpster sold me a black cube with monkeyball, Luigi’s mansion and rogue leader. Best launch lineup ever. Once Monkey target was unlocked the other games didn’t get a look in. 

 

This lines up with our experience, we spent hours playing Monkey Target. Then watching Mallrats for the first time too. Good times.

[ScouserInExile]

18 hours ago, yakumo said:

Resident Evil 4.

I remember, way back in the day, posting that I was playing the PS2 version of RE4. Someone replied that the PS2 version looked so utterly shit it was completely unplayable and the GC version was possibly the best looking thing, not just game, ever created. To back this up, they posted what looked to my eyes to be the same screenshot twice, saying one was the awful PS2 version, the other was the vastly superior GC. It was the embodiment of the "they're the same picture" meme.

 

Probably because I played the PS2 version not long after the GC release (6 months, was it?) and it's been released on every major system since the mid 2000s (I think baring the OG Xbox), I never really think of RE4 bring a GameCube game, the way I would something like Monkey Ball or Double Dash.

 

I was all in on PS2 that generation, not least because I'm not really a fan of much in the way of Nintendo IPs*. And, y'know, Gran Turismo. So I never really played much in GC. We used to play Monkey Ball of a lunchtime, but that's about it.

 

I did, however, use the GC controller to play Double Dash on my Wii. It verges on hateful. No idea what they were thinking. Other than "fuck, this acid has properly fucked my head. Oh shit, I need to do the final design for that pad...". The console itself, however, is a lovely bit of design. I always used to think it looked a bit Fisher Price next to the Serious Bit Of Kit that was the PS2. Now, though? The PS2 looks ugly and horribly dated, the GC is a lovely thing to look at, especially in orange. I have a purple one that I have literally never switched on but was sat on a shelf essentially as an ornament until fairly recently. It's that nice to look at.

 

* I'm definitely warming to Nintendo and their IP. While I will talk at length about how badly flawed the Mario Kart games are, I recently started playing Crash Team Racing and would say it is definitely mechanically a better game, it doesn't have an ounce of the charm that Mario Kart has and really doesn't hold my attention as a result. Similarly, we've been playing a lot of Mario Party 9 recently and it's just a bunch of minigames, but it had that layer of Nintendo charm to it that keeps us playing. It's not even polish or mechanics, it's very definitely a charm. And this is from someone who has zero interest in the whole Mario thing.

[ScouserInExile]

So good, I posted it twice 

[Altabani]

3 hours ago, Gigawatt said:

F-Zero GX is one of those holy grail games for me that I would dearly love to play again but have no easy way of doing so. I’d also really like to play Wind Waker and Twilight Princess again but as they’re not on Switch I can’t. I’ve been dabbling slightly in getting into emulation recently but my Mac isn’t really up to it. As I don’t have a PC, what would be the cheapest and easiest way to get something capable of emulating GameCube to a good level? I’m happy to use a standard controller. I’ve been eyeing up a steam deck but if a cheaper mini-pc is an option I could consider that instead. 

 

A Wii U?

[Jackson]

3 hours ago, Gigawatt said:

F-Zero GX is one of those holy grail games for me that I would dearly love to play again but have no easy way of doing so. I’d also really like to play Wind Waker and Twilight Princess again but as they’re not on Switch I can’t. I’ve been dabbling slightly in getting into emulation recently but my Mac isn’t really up to it. As I don’t have a PC, what would be the cheapest and easiest way to get something capable of emulating GameCube to a good level? I’m happy to use a standard controller. I’ve been eyeing up a steam deck but if a cheaper mini-pc is an option I could consider that instead. 

Xbox series S or X seem to do a great job, I have an X and it works excellently.