cables and adapters

Nintendo S-Video cable for some reason is difficult to obtain in retail stores. Third-party companies(or non-Nintendo companies) make S-Video cable too and I've seen them in many retail stores. So I really wanted to upgrade the standard Gamecube AV cable to S-Video for my new flat screen TV. I went to Gamestop and bought this cable. I was excited, anticipating to see Gamecube's awesome graphics get even better.

BIG surprise and disappointment! The picture quality looks worse than the original Nintendo AV cable, much much much WORSE. The picture quality is very GRAINY, lot of dots, and faded colors. The wires are very thin too, the original Nintendo AV cable is 2-3 times thicker. This cable gets negative 5 stars, -5.

I'm firmly convinced that ALL third-party products are CRAP. I swear I shall never buy another third-party product. These companies should be banned from making products, they waste resources to make crap and rip-off people's money.

KEEP your original Nintendo AV cable, it works 100 times better than other companies' cable. If you're looking for RF, S-video, or Component cable; Buy authentic Nintendo and order them thru Nintendo. Im certainly gonna order OG Nintendo S-Video cable from Nintendo.

I bought this cable from circuit city cause I was in desperate need for an svideo cable to use on my kv-27fv310 sony wega tv. It looked horrible... When you play Metroid Prime you can easily see dots crawling on the red nintendo logo at the start of the game similar to the ones you see when you use the standard av cables the Gamecube comes with. Throughout the whole game there's crawling dots (especially on alot of blue colored objects like ice) which made me very dissapointed... Later on I bought the component video cable from nintendo's online store for about 35 bucks with shipping and that cable delivers amazing quality. I highly recommend the component cable from nintendo. The Intec S-Video cable is still better than the standard av cables though but as far as s-video goes this cable is horrible (had the same experience with an interact s-video cable for playstation until I bought the official sony one which was way better). Not recommended.

This cable replaced the stock GameCube A/V cable. The difference in quality is most noticeable in text (I'm playing Phantasy Star Online). Glowing objects are no longer washed out, and dark areas of the game show detail that was missing with the composite video connection.