If that were acceptable why does this thing even exist?
Swiss ISO loading is a neat party trick but the compatibility sucks. Using a Wii and Nintendont is fine if you’re OK with having a second box in the first place.
The only thing I’m aware of that can do both on one cube requires some very tricky soldering, isn’t produced for sale any more, and was only available intermittently from a very unreliable seller.
Gamecube hardware seems…hard.
I have never owned a gamecube, and in fact passed one up a few months ago, because I already have a Wii. It has and will meet all my GC requirements.
Nintendont runs all my backed up discs and Fire Emblem perfectly.
I love the library, but have no real connection the the hardware.
In my mind, there’s already a disc drive replacement solution, which still allows you to play original disks.
I’m also blessed not seeing the slight image quality variation affecting the Wii.
It seems weird, but then I also have the same experience with DS support for GBA games.
Which, for big screens, I’ve had very good results emulating with shaders on the pc crt.
I can’t really notice the image differences either, and Nintendon’t certainly works well enough that you would probably never run into a bug or notice one if you did.
For me it’s more the experience of it all.
On Wii if I want to start a GameCube disc I need to boot into the Wii menu, use a Wii remote to slowly launch the GC channel and switch to a GC controller. If it’s a GC backup disc I need to launch a homebrew application instead. If it’s launched from ISO I need to have a carefully prepared disk folder structure and then launch my USB Loader GX forwarder channel and either hope for the best or dick around wonder why it’s not working. If I want to avoid the Wii remote and simplify this as best I’ve got is likely loading that GC backup launcher app from boot2 which is pretty ugly, and some programs just don’t like being started from boot2 so I don’t even know if that would work and I might need to start at the Homebrew Channel.
And then I’m left playing it all on hardware that doesn’t look quite right where no matter what the controller cords come from the wrong place.
On a GameCube it all just feels so much more seamless. The system looks and feels right and I can just get more into the experience, starting up each game has less friction, and I end up playing + buying more GameCube games as a result of having this set up the way I like than I would otherwise. Even if you don’t want to go to having homebrew or ISO launching or IPL mods or component/hdmi output or game boy player, just having a little cube attached over composite to a CRT TV has a really great feel to it, better than a technically superior Wii setup.
Wii is certainly not a bad way to go but I’m sure you can understand where I’m coming from there.
Definitely can understand.
That said, your Wii workflow can be much simpler. Mine boots straight into WiiFlowLite, I see a row of game artwork for Wii/GC/both, use any controller to choose a game and it loads (using Nintendont if GC). Looks for games on SD card by default (my currently playing games), but prefers USB if one is plugged in (my full library). Might still not be your style but thought it worth mentioning an alternative setup.
Absolutely understand, and heartily respect your personal preference. 
The Wii works, but it’s a bit finiky and ugly, unless you have Matt’s setup, which requires even more prep work.
The GC is cleaner, but requires a hard mod.
Since I have the Retrotink I can now use svideo on my Gamecube for the GB Player, and it does have the GBI for 240p and such. I’m glad I went with the Retrotink now as I can finally record games properly on the GB Player.
It’s nice that Euros have an EU seller.
Pre-ordered from the EU store. You pay later when it’s ready which is nice.
Was lucky to get my preorder in! Made mine on Dan Kunz’s website. Site kept timing out and when I finally got in there was a bug with the cart and it gave me 2 units. So I went ahead and paid for both 
Only wanted one but I have three cubes and only 1 with a working disc drive so I guess this is providence.
so i have my GC over the first party component cables plugged into my trinotron, and when i turn progressive mode on, the screen does this
that’s animal crossing but happens with whatever game…any ideas here?
Odd… Is it okay at 480i? Has it worked at 480p on this CRT before?
yeah every game i throw at it interlaced is fine -.and i don’t know that I’ve enabled it here?
gonna try some Xbox games here, i know many of those are 480p
Yeah, all but like 20 some OG Xbox games are in 480p, though the Xbox 1.6 revision broke 480p to make them 480i on a few games like Fable and Panzer Dragoon Orta I believe.
is it a 480p capable CRT?
What is the model number?
couldn’t get the model # but i tried JSRF on Xbox today with 480p enabled & got the same result! I’m guessing that yeah, despite having component, it just doesn’t do 480p
i was a little bummed but image quality still looks great, and it beats the HDTV adding any lag destroying aspect ratio or losing scanlines, so I’m sticking with it! at least component cables give a clean image vs GC composite, heh
A quick search of the model number should answer that.
Having a component input is not in any way indicative of 480p input unfortunately. It looks like you have just a standard 15khz set.
Most flat panels do a good job with 480p and depending on your set may have a similar input latency to modern consoles with progressive signals.
right, again, that’s not readily accessible right now
yeah, you’re prolly right - again though, not wanting to trade the aspect ratio/scanlines though, this thing’s got really good IQ so ill make do!
Yep, most consumer CRTs even with component still don’t offer progressive scan. Some do, but they’re definitely more rare and then may not display interlaced stuff properly. Genuine multi sync monitors that handle it all natively are basically unicorns.
I literally searched for one for years before finally finding it and it was not a consumer set. And I definitely overpaid for it.
It’s a bummer that something so simple is so hard to find.
