Gamecube on Dell 2407WFP

[Dooms]

Hey Guys,

I started playing on my cube again the other day (had an urge to play resident evil 4) so started playing it on my normal CRT TV, however when I move at the end of the month thats going and I'll be left with my Dell 2407WFP as my main screen for PC, 360 and hopefully cube however heres where I am having the problem...

S-Video is just awful, looks really bad

Component cables are no longer made (they look the connection of the back of the newer cubes) and seem to be going on ebay for £40!!

Do i have any other options? Is there a Scart (RGB) to component adapter (and would this look any good?) - After a bit of googling I found there IS a guide for cube to VGA cable, making it yourself, but site is dead

[directhex]

building a VGA cable is a dead loss, since the starting point is the component cable.

you can't directly convert RGB-SCART to component as they send different signals (RGB-SCART is R/G/B with sync on composite, component is Luma/Blue diff/Red diff with sync on luma). conversion boxes are ~£80

and don't forget that the component cable requires an older cube with "digital" output connector on the back alongside the normal one

[directhex]

thinking about it, was the component cable ever sold in the UK? might explain the price

[Dooms]

I have the older cube with the digital connector but its a shame about the cables looks like I'm stuck having to keep TV

[YorkieBen]

buy a wii, you can get a component cable and play GC games

[Dooms]

lol in 17 days I join the ranks of the unemployed... that isnt an option atm (Tho i have thought about it)

[MadduckUK]

how can they possibly justify £48 for a cable?! especially when the Wii one can be had for a little over a tenner

[kalniel]

Buy a complete gamecube from a second hand shop - some of them will come with all the cables - and they're dirt cheap

[directhex]

Originally Posted by kalniel

Buy a complete gamecube from a second hand shop - some of them will come with all the cables - and they're dirt cheap

why would a second hand shop take in a gamecube with an expensive import-only cable and not sell the cable separately?

[Dooms]

Originally Posted by kalniel

Buy a complete gamecube from a second hand shop - some of them will come with all the cables - and they're dirt cheap

I don't think that would work, when at gamestation we never took in consoles unless they came with a scart, as directhex said if it came with component it would be sold seperatly

[kalniel]

Originally Posted by directhex

why would a second hand shop take in a gamecube with an expensive import-only cable and not sell the cable separately?

Could be that I'm mistaking what's a component cable and what's not. My gamecube came with both a scart connector and a 3xphono cable connector - I assumed the latter was a component cable.

[Dooms]

Nah... that's s-video with phono audio.

Component is...

[PenguinJim]

Originally Posted by kalniel

Could be that I'm mistaking what's a component cable and what's not. My gamecube came with both a scart connector and a 3xphono cable connector - I assumed the latter was a component cable.

That's composite, not component.

[kalniel]

Originally Posted by PenguinJim

That's composite, not component.

Ah, obvious really

[PenguinJim]

Once you've bought the wrong cable a few hundred times, you learn. Well, I did. Mostly.