help with gamecube

Zaphan58

Zaphan58

Zaphan58

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I just bought a second hand gamecube and having never owned one before I am a little confused as to why I can't get a picture.

It came with two cables, one standard RF which I haven't tried yet as I would rather use scart.

The other one has four connectors on the end, red, white, yellow and an s-video. I tried plugging the red, white and yellow into my xbox block thing that converts it to a scart connection and leaving the s-video as I have no where to plug it but I get no picture.

Is this the wrong lead? Am I stuck with RF and if I am is the picture worse or is it just that its highly annoying to flick channels and pull my aerial out all the time?
 
Zaphan58 said:
Is this the wrong lead? Am I stuck with RF and if I am is the picture worse or is it just that its highly annoying to flick channels and pull my aerial out all the time?
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i cant see why it wouldnt work, mine used to be connected in this way (i didnt have a svideo connection with the 3 other leads though). maybe you moved the scart block out a bit when you pulled the xbox cables out. if you have already tried reinserting it then i guess its time to try the rf lead

are you certain the consoles working properly in the first place?

alternatively i guess the 'block' could be the cause, maybe try it with another block??
 
If there's an S-Video connection along with the 3 composites, this suggests to me that it may be an NTSC console..
 
Cheers chaps I tried it on another TV and it worked fine my TV must be a bit dodgy. Pretty certain its PAL as all the games are and they work fine. :)
 
Did it work through S video in the end or just the yellow/red/white cables?

Reading up on this before I think the Gamecube could only output the S video and component signal for the digital out socket, some Gamecubes apparently didn't have this.
 
Ah that makes sense then, I never managed to get mine outputting through S video either which is a shame because I know for the PS2 it makes quite a difference to sharpness.
 
Plug the gamecube lead into thge gamcube, it should have... red,white, and yellow plugs the other end
Plug this into the TV (Yellow goes to video in) switch TV to the AV 1 or AV2 (or even AV3)

if that doesent work then its either your gamecube or the TV, try the cube again same way in another TV
 
Only NTSC cubes ever did s-video.

The tade off was PAL cubes could do RGB with a cheap £5 3rd party lead where as NTSC cubes need you to make an RGB lead with components costing £30 upwards.

And yeah they did remove the digital port later on in the cubes lifetime so effectively removed the ability to get RGB on later NTSC models
 
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