Ah dang, thanks
The Nintendo GameCube Appreciation and Collecting Thread.
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These are good recs. Love the Lost Kingdom games.
Megaman Battle Network Transmission is something I had a lot of fun with, though your mileage may vary.
shanafan
Member
MJR did a video on his dead GameCube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvd-73clV6E
My soapbox real quick.. I really like MetalJesusRocks. Just comes across as a real dude who loves games, and wants to help his community with reviews, etc. He mentioned that he bought his GC HDMI Plug n Play, and he is not sponsored by the developer. Meanwhile, last week, I watched a video from Adam Koralik, and he said he didn't have the GC HDMI yet, but he would gladly do a video on it if the developer sent him one. That's just gross. You have a large channel, and are asking for handouts. Please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvd-73clV6E
My soapbox real quick.. I really like MetalJesusRocks. Just comes across as a real dude who loves games, and wants to help his community with reviews, etc. He mentioned that he bought his GC HDMI Plug n Play, and he is not sponsored by the developer. Meanwhile, last week, I watched a video from Adam Koralik, and he said he didn't have the GC HDMI yet, but he would gladly do a video on it if the developer sent him one. That's just gross. You have a large channel, and are asking for handouts. Please.
The Retro Roundtable talked about this on their stream last night. They also touched upon how it's horrible someone like MJR did a review on this to his many followers and was warned this could happen in the comments of his first video and he ignored them. I agree with them it's bad he didn't take his video down (and still hasn't) as soon as his GCN blew up.
https://youtu.be/A6CEBYJ5_G0?t=3495
shanafan
Member
What do you mean he ignored the comments? He posted the video, and the comments followed. Did the community want him to take the video down because of the product being faulty i.e. buyer beware?
Lightning_Roller
Banned
I JUST GOT BATTALION WARS AND INCRDIBLE HULK ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION, WOOHOO!!!
Wow, lol. Between BAC and this guy making HDMI adapters than can fry your cube the situation is a mess.
mariosbrother
Member
Battalion Wars was such a great game. Congrats on the pick up. I'm going to have to dig mine out some day. Had a lot of fun with it back in the day.
IrishNinja
Member
ive yet to play battalion but man is ultimate destruction a great time!
Shin Johnpv
Member
Meaning he didn't listen to people that it was an issue and kept using it. Nor did he make any kind of official comment hey this could possibly fry your GC, until it happened to him, even though people were telling him about it. MJR seems like a cool dude, and I'm sure in person he would be chill as hell to hang out with it, but his videos make me roll my eyes hard. Honestly 5 minutes of research could make him not sound like someone who has no clue what they're talking about.
Lightning_Roller
Banned
You're both right. They are both great games. And smashing stuff in Hulk is so gooood.....
Oh, but you won't find that comment on the latest video because MJR deleted it.
https://twitter.com/GameSack/status/901212006870523904
MJR was warned it could happen way before it happened to him and he didn't bother letting his 428K followers know about it. I feel sorry for those who treat people like him as a source of information instead of just entertainment.
shanafan
Member
Oh, but you won't find that comment on the latest video because MJR deleted it.
https://twitter.com/GameSack/status/901212006870523904
MJR was warned it could happen way before it happened to him and he didn't bother letting his 428K followers know about it. I feel sorry for those who treat people like him as a source of information instead of just entertainment.
Oh wow, Game Sack calling him out. I didn't realize how much of an issue this truly was.
Patrick Young
Member
Further justifies my wait for BAC. Currently it's like waiting for Half-Life 3 though.
IrishNinja
Member
Oh, but you won't find that comment on the latest video because MJR deleted it.
https://twitter.com/GameSack/status/901212006870523904
MJR was warned it could happen way before it happened to him and he didn't bother letting his 428K followers know about it. I feel sorry for those who treat people like him as a source of information instead of just entertainment.
...yeah. like Mark from CGR, you prolly shouldn't look to dude for technical info, unless it's in their wheelwell (mark knows recording/historical stuff, MJR sometimes seems to know PC gaming from his background, etc). anything else, google it
D.Lo
Member
Wow what a scumbag.
Oh, but you won't find that comment on the latest video because MJR deleted it.
https://twitter.com/GameSack/status/901212006870523904
MJR was warned it could happen way before it happened to him and he didn't bother letting his 428K followers know about it. I feel sorry for those who treat people like him as a source of information instead of just entertainment.
Pancakes R Us
Member
So glad I didn't order one of these HDMI adaptors. Gonna wait for a proper solution.
socksfelloff
Member
I lost all respect for gamesack after their comments towards data discs and their genesis releases but good on them for calling out MJR on the gamecube adapter!
The problem is it's not a real connector, it's 2 PCB boards that are sandwiched together and just touching the contacts inside the GCN. Any shift and the 12V can short out to another pin. This is one of the reasons why it's taking BadAss Consoles so long, he's having an actual connector made so this can't happen.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Last update on Twitter said he will hopefully have samples shipped to him by Sept. 10th.
Connector is taking a while, he's posted some mock-ups and details though.
https://twitter.com/BadAssConsoles/status/857666081921609728
https://twitter.com/BadAssConsoles/status/866803978818002945
bennywhatever
Member
Would you guys say Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3/4 is better on Gamecube than PS2? I'm thinking it probably is but I can't decide which version to get.
Also, any recommendations on good scifi games for the GC? Maybe something ala Xenosaga?
Also, any recommendations on good scifi games for the GC? Maybe something ala Xenosaga?
sixteen-bit
Member
Did the Gamecube versions have online play? I think that was a plus for the PS2 versions back in the day.
Either way I preferred PS controllers on THPS games
Either way I preferred PS controllers on THPS games
TheMoon
Member
you can count GCN games with online on one hand, if that.
edit: with a finger to spare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_GameCube_Broadband_Adapter_and_Modem_Adapter
KDash31987
Member
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 on GameCube apparently had some framerate issues, especially in the Tokyo skate park. Or so reviews said. I read that it does look a bit better than the PlayStation 2 version, though. I'd personally recommend the PlayStation 2 version just for the controller, but the framerate should also be better, if the reviews were right. I own the PlayStation 2 version myself. Back in Christmas of 2001, my family and I were thinking about getting the GameCube and that version of the game, but ended up getting a PlayStation 2 with it instead due to the controller and the framerate issues mentioned in reviews. I got a GameCube a few months later, but never got any Tony Hawk games for it.
I know you didn't ask about it, but I feel that I should mention that the Xbox version has an extra Oil Rig level and an extra skater. They were added since the game came out a few months later on there.
I don't know if there's much of a difference between the different versions of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, though the Xbox version does support 720p. I own that version, so I can't really say much about the others. But between PlayStation 2 and GameCube, I'd pick the former just for the controller. I love the GameCube controller, but the button placements aren't ideal for this series.
I think only the PlayStation 2 versions of the Tony Hawk games that generation had online play. And yeah, agreed about the controller.
...though the only Tony Hawk games I have on PlayStation hardware are Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 on PlayStation 2, and Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix on PSP. I own the rest on Dreamcast, Xbox, and Xbox 360, plus a few handheld versions on Nintendo systems. Pic.
Not much of an update but there's an update.
https://twitter.com/BadAssConsoles/status/907887397941149696
D.Lo
Member
I think it makes little difference these days but back then having uncompressed video for the skate video 'rewards' was a huge plus on PS2 for me.
Also the game was clearly built from first principles around the PS's dpad - tap tap controls made perfect sense on the segmented dpad, just like Tekken. Gamecube dpad was a secondary input and it's just not as good on a stick.
These days you can watch all the video you want in higher quality on youtube and get a PS2 controller adpater, so GC versions with improved IQ and load times would actually be best by a small margin! And as the series sent on the videos were more the developers screwing around instead of quality skate vids, and the skaters in the roster were not exactly the best in the industry in many cases, (Koston, Mullen, Vallely excepted), nobody gave a shit about all those 80s style vert skaters in 2001 lol.
F-Zero GX (sorry, not sorry)
dancrane212
Member
Getting everything ready for a Double Dash LAN at a convention tomorrow. It's always exciting to break out this kit.
sixteen-bit
Member
Amazing. You gotta share the setup in this thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1433700
Anyone ever purchased a factory sealed game and found a fingerprint underneath the plastic or any other smudges or anything like that? Looking to get a game and the seller noted a fingerprint underneath the plastic but recalls buying the game at a retail store and the seller seems on the up-and-up but that one thing makes me take pause...
TheMoon
Member
get a picture. what kind of factory seal? cheap shrinkwrap or proper folded plastic?
He's sending some pictures (helpful so I'm not concerned about the seller but if at some point a 'dirty' game entered the market):
Thoughts?
Yeah, it looks like a legit seal, but I got burned on a WW in the past that had been resealed but the case was scuffed underneath. The fingerprint under the seal is what's throwing me, but the seller is super open and said they got it from CC/BB/Frys/etc.
Anyone else have any thoughts? I'm leaning towards having them ship it, but they wanted me to get back to them to be certain.
TheMoon
Member
was it (WW) resealed like this? I'm only familiar with reseals using the shitty shrinkwrap.
It was. That's when I started to become really paranoid. I got it and it seemed "off". I was looking at it under the light at angles and when I tented the plastic wrap I could see there was scratches on the game case itself BELOW the "factory" seal at which point I realized I'd been duped. Got full refund then but since then I've been very wary.
Just last month I bought a sealed DS game from an amazon seller that looked off. It was a nice looking y-fold seal, but there was a small tear in the clear plastic over the artwork. I had bought it to play and it was priced the same as used copies so I opened it. Imagine my non-surprise that the cart already had a save on it.
TheMoon
Member
IrishNinja
Member
open it & play it
Already have an open copy to play
This is my fear... I'll take a look and see if there really is a fingerprint under there plastic or a scuff on the factory seal...
I've experienced myself a few oddities, in years of collecting videogames, with brand new sealed games (and I mean, for example, PS2 games that I bought in stores day 1, which I had personally removed their genuine Sony seal from the plastic wrap): I remember a folded manual, another one that was misplaced - under the two tabs inside the case - and got a corner damaged, and even a WRC disc which came out with very light scuffmarks on its surface, in spite of not being loose in the box, but perfectly secured on its holder.
That's not to say a fingerprint shouldn't get anyone worried - I would've probably forgotten about the auction immediately, and looked for another one - only that I've seen odd shit nonetheless.
I once got a long dark hair inside of a sealed new release game. Maybe an employee made an adjustment during packaging and it happened somehow.
BumblebeeCody
Member
Thats one thing I dont understand about US and Japanese release, why didnt they have a Nintendo packaging seal like in Europe? Guaranteed untouched.
BumblebeeCody
Member
I think now would be a good time to post this since I dont plan on being here much longer.
I found this new app called Snupps. Its basically instagram with a purpose. You use virtual shelves to display items you own. Its been recently growing in popularity. Ive got my own shelves but also made a Nintendo GameCube Collectors group for fans of the system to display and/or discuss anything GameCube related. Its a much easier and tidier way for us to show off our collection without having to sort through random posts and display them all in one place and at the same, talk with people outside of this forum.
You can download the app for both iOS and Android. Just search for Snupps. Then search for GameCube Collectors.
Would love for you guys to join in and show off your purchases, games etc
https://www.snupps.com/group/1520--nintendo-gamecube-collectors
I found this new app called Snupps. Its basically instagram with a purpose. You use virtual shelves to display items you own. Its been recently growing in popularity. Ive got my own shelves but also made a Nintendo GameCube Collectors group for fans of the system to display and/or discuss anything GameCube related. Its a much easier and tidier way for us to show off our collection without having to sort through random posts and display them all in one place and at the same, talk with people outside of this forum.
You can download the app for both iOS and Android. Just search for Snupps. Then search for GameCube Collectors.
Would love for you guys to join in and show off your purchases, games etc
https://www.snupps.com/group/1520--nintendo-gamecube-collectors
Yeah, but its a really awesome console.