Gamecube Cable Advise: Which to buy

[1P_King]

Hey guys, had my LCD sammy 26" (the one most people have brought) for a few weeks and unable to get a 360 thought i'd give my gamecube a try and play some of my games in progressive scan.

Now which cable out of these two would give the best results on my LCD

http://www.ncsxshop.com/cgi-bin/shop/DOL-009.html

http://www.ncsxshop.com/cgi-bin/shop/DOL-010.html

Thanks

[charlesr]

The component cable. The dvideo cable is a japan specific connection that won't be of any use to you.

[1P_King]

Thanks very much

Will order that and play thru metroid prime again

[ucci]

Those prices are brilliant, shame Im after a RGB scart connector and I dont have a telly that can take component.

[1P_King]

Not sure if this is a dumb arse question, but here goes

What about sound? This component cable only takes video right (RGB) and nomally component has five cables three for video and 2 for sound right?

[charlesr]

You use the standard cable (red and white phonos) for sound. The two cables plug into different ports.

[1P_King]

ordered thanks again

[1P_King]

One more thing, i've just been to this site,

http://www.hdtvarcade.com/gamecubelist.htm

Which told me that Metroid Prime and RE4 were both 480p but not 16:9,

Now i'm going to be playing these on a widescreen lcd so does that mean i will only get 480p if played in 4:3 or will it just stretch the 480p image to fit my widescreen tv.

I know i'm getting pretty anal here but its worth knowing none the less

[charlesr]

Btw, hope you have an NTSC gamecube? Pal ones don't do Prog scan without jiggery pokery.

For metroid prime (if that website is correct), then set your screen to 4:3 and have borders either side, otherwise it will look wrong. For RE4, it's 4:3 but with the top and bottom chopped off so it appears like 16:9. Probably best to auto zoom so it fills the screen.

[Pij]

That will be down to your TV, some force it to be widescreen.

[1P_King]

Yeah no worries on the gamecube front, i've had my us cube since launch but now the "HD era" is here thought i'd try it out.

[Yod@]

Btw, hope you have an NTSC gamecube? Pal ones don't do Prog scan without jiggery pokery.

Partly right - PAL cubes can do prog scan just the same as NTSC cubes, but unless you're using a Qoob chip to force prog scan then you still need to be running prog scan-compatible (i.e. NTSC) games - either by using a modchip or by using FreeLoader.