Gamecube Component or Saurian RGB cable?

[Nu-Eclipse]

Cheaper to buy a Wii and an official Wii component cable..

This.

And a piece of p1ss to soft-mod it with Homebrew Channel and GCBoot to run NTSC GC games with 480p goodness.

This is actually now my preferred set-up for NTSC GC games to the point that my Panasonic Q has been made redundant, especially as I can't afford don't have an official component cable for it.

[speedlolita]

Well, I'm happy with PAL60 on my Trinitron KX-14CP1 via official SCART.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Well, I'm happy with PAL60 on my Trinitron KX-14CP1 via official SCART.

Each to their own, but I'm never going back to SCART as far as GC games are concerned.

Never.

[mmmonkey]

Once I went to LCD, I ended up converting a couple of cables back to component, was much happier :-)

[DJ Sack]

So basically Component > Saurian Cable for everything? Obviously 480p is the best it can do but even for those games that don't support it, its still going to look better? Will a plasma/lcd with component cable look better than a saurian cable on a crt?

[Baseley09]

That would depend on your displays scaling, I would think the best possible picture from a Gamecube is PAL 60 over RGB on a CRT.

[wakka]

Surely the best possible picture would be 480p via component on a progressive-compatible CRT?

[Baseley09]

Surely the best possible picture would be 480p via component on a progressive-compatible CRT?

My mistake yes, if you can find a 4:3 progressive CRT in the UK!

[DJ Sack]

That would depend on your displays scaling, I would think the best possible picture from a Gamecube is PAL 60 over RGB on a CRT.

Why would that be better than component? Because the tv won't be displaying at 480p but taking that and trying to upscale it to 720p/1080p?

[charlesr]

GC via component looks far better on my Plasma than it ever did on my prog scan CRT via saurian RGB. Better colours I guess.

[Baseley09]

Why would that be better than component? Because the tv won't be displaying at 480p but taking that and trying to upscale it to 720p/1080p?

Yes because the TV has a higher native resolution than the image being output.

[DJ Sack]

Well i guess that as my CRT is either likely to die some day or be binned its probably better that i keep the component cable that the RGB one. Do they still have any value or desirability?

[Nu-Eclipse]

Well i guess that as my CRT is either likely to die some day or be binned its probably better that i keep the component cable that the RGB one. Do they still have any value or desirability?

Last I saw (very recently), official GC component cables regularly go on eBay for up to ?100, ?150 in some cases (mint-condition, etc.).

[speedlolita]

The Saurien cable has the components necessary for someone to turn it back into a component cable too mind..

[bash]

GC via component looks far better on my Plasma than it ever did on my prog scan CRT via saurian RGB. Better colours I guess.

But the Saurian RGB cable wouldn't have given you 480p anyway. If you had the component cable on your CRT it would've been bettet than your plasma, trust!