Nintendo GameCube fact

[Marik]

Hold Z before and when turning the console on.


Then do it again but with 4 controllers.

[Kit]

wow, thats pretty wierd.

Thats the same thing you had to do to access the N64 memory card.

[XFox Prower]

I never knew about this. I don't have 4 controllers, so I can only see the single-controller effect. There's other startup things for the GameCube too. Hold A while powering it on to go into the bootup stuff to view memory cards and options. Hold B while powering it on until the game starts to turn on Progressive Scan mode. You must have a GameCube that supports this feature as well as a game that supports it (see the back of the game's case for a tv icon). It also requires an HDTV; trying it on a normal TV will have unexpected results (such as black & white double-vision).

[Morphed Chaos]

you also need a special cable to make it work. and what does progressive scan do?

[XFox Prower]

chaos said:

you also need a special cable to make it work. and what does progressive scan do?

I don't have an HDTV yet, but component video has better quality than composite. The Cube comes with the AV jacks for the red, white, and yellow wire hookups that all TVs purchased in atleast the last 5 years should have. There's also an S-video adaptor which is a little higher quality (TV or other device must have an S-video port). And then finally, component uses 3 cables instead of 1 for the video. Many TVs seen in stores now will have support for this (red, green, and blue connectors), though they won't be capable of progressive scan unless it's an HDTV. Another sad fact is that Gamecubes manufactorered after May of 2004 (around the time the platinum models with Metroid Prime 2 demo came out?) don't have the Digital Out port (which is also a bit hard to find now as far as the first-party official Nintendo cable goes).
See www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/nintendogamecube/component_faq.jsp.

Other than having higher quality with component cables, another advantage of this is that the GameCube treats the Digital and Analog outputs as 2 individual outputs. I have the Digital Output going to my TV and the Analog Output sending video (through S-video connector) to my PC for recording and screenshots. If you have an older model Gamecube and want these cables, the ones by Nintendo go for $35, and 3rd party cables go for about $10 And with HDTVs dropping price as winter approaches, it would make sense for the Nintendo Revolution to re-add the Digital Out port removed from the later Cube models and also use them for the Rev games. We won't know until we see it.

[Morphed Chaos]

Dang...I can finally get thoes SSBM sounds and sprites i want with that. So... How do you connect it to the computer? does it have a USB port with the cable or do i need something else?

[Marik]

The Revolution will have that as default to all games, for the GCN it's only Nintendo games and a few third party games made in 2003 or earlier.

[ShadowFan24]

But Marik, I only have two controllers and I found out about that a LONG time ago! :3

[DigiTails]

[glow=purple,2,300]I already knew about the one controller thing[/glow]