GameCube: VGA solution for PAL woes?

[Mayhem]

Someone I know here in the UK has a US Cube. He has Freeloader 1.06B and a number of PAL games. He will be moving back to the US very shortly.

What he wants to know is whether connecting his US Cube to a monitor etc via a VGA cable or box will negate the PAL/NTSC video issues he is likely to experience over there when trying to play the PAL games on his machine. He knows about the potential 50/60Hz issues that might result from connecting to a TV, but is that an issue either here, seeing as a monitor can be changed to refresh at different rates?

I'm well versed in connecting consoles to TVs, but not via VGA, hence asking here as I don't know 100% myself

[sj33]

You'll face another problem, in that most VGA monitors do not support interlaced resolutions, so you'll only be able to play games that have Progressive Scan mode. Since no PAL game has that anyway, it's a no-go.
Many HDTV's with VGA inputs do support interlaced resolutions, but there's no way to tell, and they don't always support 576i 50Hz very well.

The only decent, complete VGA solution is a device such as the XRGB2+ (or the forthcoming XRGB3)... but for the price you'd pay for one of them (~$200), your friend could rebuy most of his games in NTSC.
There are cheap VGA boxes, but they're utter **** and not worth your time.

Many modchips, such as the Qoob modchip, allows you to force games into NTSC mode, but this still may not work on all games.