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stratjakt:
How about a link from our own site?

http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_consoles.shtml#rgb2arcade

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# The GameCube Digital/Component cable offers RGB (as well as 31khz RGB ... otherwise known as VGA).  [Gamesx only has the GameCube RGB/VGA hack in a very long discussion thread at the moment.]

The Digital/Component cable has been removed from the Gamecube.   This is fact, and has been since 2002 or so.  The cube I bought on release day had it, the one we bought our son a year later for his room did not.  The used one I bought for myself about a year ago does not either.

Go to EB and buy a component video cable for gamecube, they're right next to the Dreamcast broadband adapters and Sega Saturn modems, in the aisle past the SNES CD-rom addons.

Newer cubes simply don't have it, those folks are out of luck.  If you had an older cube, and can track down a component cable, it can be hacked to get RGB.

But it's long been discontinued as a GCN feature.  It's the reason almost all the links you posted say "no longer available", and part of the reason Nintendo could all of a sudden cut the cube's price in half.  And very rarely does a new GCN title support 480P, and Nintendo no longer makes the cables.

I haven't seen anyone get 15khz RGB out of a newer cube with only analog outputs.  The AV pinout has RGB - the first SNES had it, but the SNES 2 - the smaller later american one, did not, and N64 did not.  With these consoles it was easy to add (well not quite so easy with the new SNES, but possible).

The scart cables in some pictures look like the regular Analog AV out - maybe PAL cubes have RGB on all versions?  It would almost make me want a PAL cube to do a country mod on if it was true.

I can tell you that pins 1, 2, 3, and 4 are not connected inside my cube.  If you've ever opened one up, you'd see how impossible it would be to figure out where to tap the signals.  Everything happens within one of the two custom chips on that thing.

If it's possible, please, show me, because if I could get RGB/S, I could get YUV and be happy.
elvis:
Minwah's in the UK, and I'm assuming he has a PAL GC.

I'm in Australia, and know a few GC owners (one with both a US NTSC unit and a PAL unit).  I'll see if I can open them up and compare directly.

[EDIT]

This thread:
http://atarilabs.com/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=11&TID=942&P=1&SID=7943

Lead me here:
http://www.gamechoiceclub.com/search.asp?subcategory=Cable&category=Gamecube

And of course the link from arcadecollector above:
http://www.ravengames.co.uk/gamecubergbleadinfo.htm

Minwah:

--- Quote from: elvis on September 29, 2005, 01:35:48 am ---And of course the link from arcadecollector above:
http://www.ravengames.co.uk/gamecubergbleadinfo.htm

--- End quote ---

The most important part:

'The USA & Japanese GameCube machines don't actually have Rgb outputs so you can't use the standard UK Rgb scart lead.'

Also from this page ( http://cgfm2.emuviews.com/gc.php ):

' Analog A/V Out

    * Composite video
    * S-Video
    * RGB (PAL consoles ONLY, not available in NTSC consoles)
    * Stereo audio'

...and:

'RGB video from the Analog A/V port of a PAL GameCube is fixed at 15KHz (480i, interlaced) output only.'
stratjakt:
I didn't know that PAL units had RGB on the multi-out port.  I'd be interested in a good comparison of the two side by side - I'm betting it has extra components inside, but if not, tracing back the RGB pins might lead to something that NTSC owners could tap..  I always thought nintendo had just one board design, and just put the jumper in for regions (which is why a region switch is so easy).

Of course, if it were possible, there'd probably already be a hack out.

I know it could be hacked from the component video cable - if you have the digital AV out port, which most cubes on the street dont.  The RGB/YUV circuitry is in the cable's plug itself, so you need the cable too - and not the d-terminal cable for the japanese, the component YUV cable designed for north america and quickly discontinued.

Of all the modern consoles, I'd say GCN would be best suited for the arcade, with a modchip it could run MAME no problems, and it's cheap and has some pretty kick ass titles..
RayB:
You could run Ikaruga on a vertical monitor...
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