I just bought an indigo gamecube with the component cables off ebay for 29 dollars. I've been looking around ebay and it seems that the component cables can be sold for a high price, around 60 dollars used. I bought this item with the intent to resell it for a little more to make some money. I was wondering if maybe I should keep the cable and the gamecube if they're rare. I really have no idea though, so that's my question. Is the gamecube and the component cables worth keeping or should I try to sell them for a higher price once I get them? edit: And now I just noticed that I spelled cables wrong in the title... great.
personally I'd sell the gamecube and the cable and get a wii for what I spent - the you get a gamecube AND a wii with a component cable
No, terrible investment !!! I will take it off your hands for a couple bucks..... hehehe. Cable $40-60 Gamecube with extra vid port $30?
Hahaha thanks. When I looked at the high prices the component cables were selling for on ebay, I was really confused.
Hang on to it, you'll regret later if you sell. I paid forty bucks for mine, GBA games at 480p yeah! Could get lucky at this mislabel of $4.99, don't call go see for yourself. http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=32149
I got a pair of these for $15 on Craigslist last week. I've been testing them out on my SD 32" Sony Trinitron/WEGA (which doesn't even support progressive scan) and everything looks much better than it did running through composite. Wavebird + Component cables = Great Gamecube experience
Just for the sake of comparison, I grabbed the Gamecube component cable in the Japanese packaging from NCS for about $40 a couple of years ago. It seems a little pointless given that the Wii plays the whole Gamecube library, but I don't regret the purchase and I don't plan to resell the cable.
With a GC you can actually play online games still, while on a Wii you can't. GC wins for sure, despite component looking shit on big HDtvs...
Does anyone honestly play with a Gamecube online? That Warp pipe program was a nuisance back in 2003, I have a hard time believing anyone would bother now.
Well, you can play GC imports via a Freeloader and not worry about a system update disabling it. Pretty sure I have 2 Cubes with the digital out, no component cables though. Too bad the feature was way ahead of its time and barely anyone used it at the time.
Some people are working on reviving the super smash bros melee online that was being worked on by a small group a few years ago. I'm really into smash and competitive play, so it's kind of interesting to me. Although it seems like there would be so few people who had the equipment (including me) that there wouldn't be a whole lot of people on all the time. Anyway, the guy said he shipped my package, so now I'm just waiting to receive it in the mail. I have a lot of "backups" that I've made recently of games that I used to own and some that I did not <,< and I'm interested in playing Wind Waker in 480p. I'm about about three quarters or more of the way through the game, so at least I can experience the ending in better quality. Also I saw one of the gamecubes with the component ports on ebay going for 13 dollars buy it now.
GC looks more badass than a Wii. I've played with S-Video for ages, and couldn't see that much of a difference on my TV (newer flat CRT) between inputs. LCD probably is a big difference.
Bad investment but something worth holding on to for the hell of it. I have them & a GCN still around. =) :fresh: We do not support the talk of piracy. Even if it's a dead console. There are commercial devs who use/visit this site (me being one of them). So consider this a friendly warning.
Well you can sure play a handful of LAN games, including 1080 Avalanche, MariokartDash, Kirby Air Ride and Star Fox:Assault (I think) but when it comes to online.. there were only Phantasy Star Online, Plus, and Episode 3:Card Revolution for the English speaking world and add Homeworld for Japan Homeworld is indeed the only one that's easily playable, network-wise.
