Gamecube Thread

[Anonymous No.10408482]

I like the cube, and I'm going through another autistic phase where I want more gamecube games even though prices are fucked in 2023. I can obviously just emulate, but owning the games is nice, too.
Favorite Game(s)?
Nostalgic Memories?
Any titles you'd absolutely recommend people play?

[Anonymous No.10408520]

>>10408482
Still the best and purest gaming console for me. Just exudes fun and got a lot of great exclusives or good versions of multiplats

[Anonymous No.10408623]

While I didn’t grow up owning a GameCube, my cousins had one and I have many fond memories of playing multiplayer with my sister and two younger cousins. Our most played games together were Mario Party 7, Super Mario Strikers, Mario Superstar Baseball, Super Monkey Ball, WarioWare: Mega Party Games, and Kirby Air Ride.
I own a decent amount of games that I play on the Wii.
I would say my favorite game for it is Mr. Driller DrillLand. Technically, I only played the remaster, but it did start off as a GameCube exclusive.
I also like Animal Crossing, Bomberman Generation, and some of the SpongeBob games (specifically, Battle for Bikini Bottom and the Movie game). Still need to play some of the games my cousin gave me like Thousand Year Door, Luigi’s Mansion, and Sunshine.

[Anonymous No.10408754]

>>10408482
I'd like to say you can obviously play games many other ways. But obviously those aren't obvious to the obviously underage. But your gramps might be able to google them for you.

[Anonymous No.10408770]

>>10408482
Buy a Wii and a hard-drive bro

[Anonymous No.10408826]

>>10408482
It's one of the nicest consoles to collect for, compact, engaging, aesthetic, uncanny. I recently sold many doubles I had. Wario World was the most expensive, I sold it under $100. I'd say prices are not THAT fucked for GC yet, specially having already amassed a collection over the years and considering CIB is plentiful. If I had the extra money I'd go after the priciest under $200 ones missing in my collection, but right now I'm okay thrifting for them (two months ago I thrifted SW: Clone Wars and yesterday Zelda CE, ain't much but keeps me going)

>Favorite Game(s)?
SSBM is king. Mario Sunshine and TTYD the most captivating 1P games for me. REmake, Eternal Darkness, Pikmin, Wario World and Luigi's Mansion in the second tier. Played a lot of Spikers BV and F-Zero GX
>Nostalgic Memories?
At the time saw GC only in mags. The first collector I've ever knew, a guy from my neighboorhood, went to meetings with other tendies to play GC and they had a forum also. That passion sticked with me until I got a GC circa 2010.
>Any titles you'd absolutely recommend people play?
Spikers VB if you like late 90s Sega arcades

[Anonymous No.10408838]

>>10408482
Serious Sam Next Encounter
PN.03
RE4
Mario Sunshine
Bloody Roar
Untitled Shantae

[Anonymous No.10408906]

>>10408482
Killer7 blew my mind when I first played it 8 years ago, the recent PC port is very good (and it has subs) but controlling the game with a GameCube controller feels so good, it was clearly designed for it

[Anonymous No.10408946]

>>10408482
Get an older Wii model with GameCube controller and memory card ports, you get the OG hardware with some additional bonuses, most obvious one being playing vidya for free. I'm in the UK and paid ten quid (around twelve bucks) for mine at a charity shop. Ended up buying a GC pad from eBay and a memory card, happy days. I didn't even need the memory card since you can just save to SD card, I just felt like having my saves on a separate device. I feel like this is the way. Plays everything flawlessly. The only thing is you can't connect the Game Boy Player, so if you're collecting GBA carts you're shit out of luck. You can emulate GBA full speed with mGBA though, added bonus being the option of outputting at 240p which looks amazing if you've got a CRT.

[Anonymous No.10409353]

>>10408520
FPBP

[Anonymous No.10410835]

>>10408482
GCLoaders are back in stock for those who don't want to pay for the retarded prices of GC games.

[Anonymous No.10410851]

I missed going to parties and meeting girls for playing SA2B non-stop when I was 17.
I unlocked GHZ.

[Anonymous No.10410862]

try the sims, its fun

[Anonymous No.10410917]

The gamecube was only ever a Melee box to me. Sunshine sucked, the last good Zelda game was LTTP and Metroid was never good. But yeah Melee is sick

[Anonymous No.10411191]

>>10408482
WarioWare
Doshin the Giant
Eternal Darkness
Chibi Robo
Time Splitters: Future Perfect
Mario Party 5
NBA Street Vol 3 (features mario characters for the slam dunk contest which is hilarious)

My favorite memory with the GameCube was staying up late every summer night with my sweetie pie and playing through all the best games on the system.

[Anonymous No.10411219]

>>10408520
I don't know why the N64 seems like it's much more popular in the retro vidya community. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the N64, it has some of my favorite games ever, but I feel like the GameCube has more games that are worth playing in it's library, but it has like 25% of the N64's popularity

[Anonymous No.10411597]

>>10408520
fpbp

>>10408482
Favorite games: Wind Waker, Metroid Prime 2, Zelda collection, Luigi's Mansion
>Nostalgic memories
My Grandma would pick me up from school when I was a kid and we'd play Luigi's Mansion together, and it was the only game she ever really played and actually understood the controls of, and she got pretty good with it. I'll always remember how happy she was one day when she picked me up from school telling me she was practicing while I was away and she happily said "I beat Bowser! I beat Bowser!"
(She's still alive if anyone's wondering)

also every time we got to nana's room in the game she'd go "look, it's me!"

She also asked recently if I still play "that Zelda game with the booger kid" lmao

[Anonymous No.10412129]

>>10408906
>clearly designed for it
All has been killer app.

[Anonymous No.10412132]

>>10411219
It’s lacking important things, souls of Rareware, Argonaut, (some) Capcom and Konami library

[Anonymous No.10412559]

>>10408482
My younger cousin and I were best friends with the son of the pastor of our church and every time we went over to their house, we would huddle around their projector tv in the basement and just play the fuck out of pretty much all the kino GC classics.

>especially Kirby air ride and Double Dash

Picrel brings back so many memories

[Anonymous No.10412648]

>>10408946
Game Boy Player never felt worth it to me. The chao games were a nice gimic for adventure 1 & 2. Also it was cool transferring a gold chao from 1 to 2... but other stuff, like the island in Animal Crossing, I never used. But then again, I had already played Wild World when I started playing Animal Crossing so I didn't really care for it much..

[Anonymous No.10412670]

>>10411597
thx for that wholesome read. this is why we will always come back to the games that made our childhood so great and granted us moments like this.

you got a freakin amazing grandma btw.

[Anonymous No.10414064]

>>10408482
Purple greatness

[Anonymous No.10414635]

>>10408482
Is there a point to a real gamecube aside fron GBA player if I have a Wii?

[Anonymous No.10414797]

>>10411219
>I don't know why the N64 seems like it's much more popular in the retro vidya community

because
>cartridges
>rareware
>the 1st and 2nd party games are both superior with only a few exceptions
>the controller is somehow worse
>n64 still had some great multiplats while nothing is superior on gamecube

gamecube is basically a melee machine in 2023

[Anonymous No.10414809]

>>10408482
>Favorite Game(s)?
Pic related was my overall favourite GameCube game. It epitomised the comfiness of what the GameCube had to offer.

[Anonymous No.10415001]

>>10408482
>Favorite Game(s)?
I haven't tried all the seemingly possibly good ones but as of now my list (in no particular order) is: F-Zero GX, Monkey Ball 1 & 2, Resident Evil 1 & 4, Killer7, Pikmin

[Anonymous No.10415160]

Gamecube is still the best way to experience Tales of Symphonia.

[Anonymous No.10415174]

Who has that old forum post of someone saying the Gamecube is the latest weapon of choice for pedophiles? Funniest shit I've read in my life

Loved SA2B, Mega Man X collection, and Resi4

[Anonymous No.10416439]

>>10408770
This

[Anonymous No.10416978]

>>10408838
>>10415001
>>10415174
>RE4
This game sucks and it would be pointless for him to buy that version when it's been re-released on so many platforms with additional features or costumes.

[Anonymous No.10417458]

>>10408482
So my GameCube now takes 5-10 attempts to read discs on boot up now. Before that it'll either just not recognize the disc or give a disc-read error. Once it actually recognizes a disc, it works just fine though. I've cleaned the laser but that didn't solve anything. How easy is the GameCube laser to replace? Alternatively, could the issue be the little tray the discs sit on? If so, how easy is THAT to replace?

[Anonymous No.10417484]

>>10417458
It might be the belt too. If you really love your GameCube then maybe it’s time to Swiss it.

[Anonymous No.10417561]

second sight is a banger

[Anonymous No.10417582]

>>10415160
but that game and its story/characters are god awful.
I'd rather it was the best way to experience Phantasia.

>>10408482
Sold my GC years ago, but still miss playing Four Swords Adventures with my bros.

Listen to this swamp song's amazing harp at the chorus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3uckInAtoY

[Anonymous No.10418197]

get a sd2sp2 and an sdgecko and go nuts

[Anonymous No.10418298]

>>10416978
Yeah it's a great game. OP should definitely consider buying it.

[Anonymous No.10418461]

>>10418298
Nope, RE4 is a waste of money and a terrible game. Even if he should buy RE4, it should be the PC version because of modding. Any other version is inferior and restrictive.

[Anonymous No.10418507]

Playing Mario Kart: Double Dash with 3 buddies is my favorite cube memory. Still have one, glad I bought the gameboy player+startup disc years ago, can’t believe the fucking disc alone goes for like $100 now.

[Anonymous No.10418540]

>>10408482
I'd have to say my favorite game that wasn't a Mario title was Zoids Battle Legends. I still have my copy and pop it in every once in a while .

[Anonymous No.10418545]

>>10408520
All its missing is a Mario 64 port similar to the Zelda ones

[Anonymous No.10418559]

>>10418507
>Gameboy Player
Honestly that thing is useless. Gameboy games are meant to be played on handhelds, not on TV. Hence the low resolution.

[Anonymous No.10418570]

>>10417484
>It might be the belt too.
Please elaborate. Forgive me for my ignorance, I'm a bit of a techlet when it comes to hardware stuff.

[Anonymous No.10418751]

>>10408482
Baten Kaitos, I have found memories of getting insanely lost in this game for days
Also Sex with Savyna

[Anonymous No.10418762]

>>10418461
Definitely really fun, it's true.

[Anonymous No.10418792]

>>10418751
How's the remaster compared to the originals?

[Anonymous No.10418820]

>>10418792
It doesn't have the English VOs they removed them completely so I skipped out on it also don't own a switch so I wasn't about to drop a wad just for that

[Anonymous No.10418848]

>>10411219
You are 100% correct. Shitcube has a stronger library than N64 and a better controller. Problem was dreamcast, Xbox and ps2 make it look like a piece of garbage to this day.

[Anonymous No.10418918]

>>10408482
>>10408482
I had one during the console wars and didn’t give it the love it deserved. But last year I decided to give it another chance (it had been sitting in a closet for 15 years) and went crazy buying and playing the games I missed out on
>Favorite Games
Resident Evil 4 is the definitively my favorite game, and worth playing with the GC controller even if you had the other versions. Metroid Prime 2 is a close followup, then Double Dash and the two mainline Zeldas and REmake
>Nostalgic moments
My friends were insanely jealous I got to pay MGS:Twin Snakes when it came out. I got it and loved it, still have my copy. Also playing Rogue Squadron 2 that launch Christmas was amazing, some of the best graphics and gameplay in the world at the time
>Absolute recommendations
The Metroid Prime games, I prefer the second over the first - what a masterpiece. Eternal Darkness is like nothing else. Wind Waker - I regret passing on it when it cane out. Double Dash is the best MK since 8. Twin Snakes, Sunshine, Rouge Squadron 1 &2. GC is the best place to play REmake, RE 2-4 and my favorite place to play the old Sonic games

[Anonymous No.10418928]

>>10418918
Rogue Squadron 2&3*, forgot to mention Melee. Also put a lot of hours into Timesplitters 2

[Anonymous No.10418938]

>>10418792
It changed some text from the original because a troon got mad about it.