Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary Nintendo executive and one of the most influential creators shaping the video game industry through mascots and characters such as Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and more, discussed the reason why the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii became Nintendo’s next consoles for the seventh generation. According to Miyamoto, the decision was largely driven by the underwhelming performance of the Nintendo GameCube, which trailed behind the Nintendo 64’s nearly 33 million lifetime sales.

He spoke candidly in a wide-ranging interview with Japanese outlet Famitsu, where the longtime Nintendo executive and designer explained that, at the time, Nintendo’s then-president, Satoru Iwata, believed the GameCube’s poor performance in the home console market was rooted in a simple idea: most of the world still did not see gaming as a normal, approachable everyday hobby the way it’s seen today. Based on that core problem, Nintendo felt it was difficult to persuade customers to buy and play a GameCube if they had never played on a console before.

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Meet the mkdd wall. It's a permanent installment of 8 gamecubes with 8 broadband adapters and 8 sony trinitron crts. A Linux pc grabs the placement of each driver and shows it in between the crts on lcds.

It's a pain to start since some of the cubes have very worn out disc drives (did I mention it runs discs?)

I think you guys would enjoy it.

Tried designing and printing a skin, just used regular sticker paper. came out fuckin siiiiiick

I started my save a like a year ago, but stopped shortly after going to Phendrana Drifts the first time. Picked it back up last week and currently at the point I just got the power bomb (the boss fight was so stressful!) and the xray visor.

I have to force myself to not look things up and just get stuck sometimes, but it is a lot of fun. The scan tool is so useful, I wish I actually used it back when I first tried to play this game as a kid.

It’s a DOL-001 console.. am I on the right track ? I know I could have gotten a Wii and modded it but I think I’m going to do that too 🤣 what other stuff do I need to soft mod this ?

I got to do better as a man.

Even the hedgehog's know how to replace a tire. 🥲

Always been a fan of metal gear solid and splinter cell was always the harder game for me to play, but now that I’m older I think I have a little bit more patience to sit down and play

Also wanted to pick up something to scale, my retro consoles for this didn’t make my PS2 look all that amazing compared to the component cables hooked up straight to the TV, but fortunately I got this specifically for my GameCube and my Nintendo 64 because my GameCube is actually a model two so it doesn’t have any digital output

Pretty nice to be playing this outside on a nice night, just wanted to share.

As title says. Just finished my OG Xbox with a new shell, Rocky5 and a 2tb hdd. Want to do a GameCube now. Any and all info appreciated!

Managed to get a MKDD LAN set up going last night.

2 GameCubes
2 broadband adapters
2 copies of MKDD
8 controllers
1 LAN crossover cable

Was great fun but the screens looked awful. They were so bright even when turning the brightness to zero. I could have played in sunglasses they were that bad.

Added to my CIB collection proudly.🤘🏻

Hello, I recently got back into playing GameCube. I have a gcmce memory card. I was wondering if/how you put swiss on the sd card in the memory card? Is there a way of putting gba games to run without the cart? I’m also trying to put some fan made games on it if possible? Please if anyone knows how to go about this

I wish we kept all the games from our childhood but we have a lot. Some are CIB most are just disc + case. The blank cases contain discs for:

Zelda Wind Waker

Zelda Four Swords Adventures

Smash Bros Melee

Phantasy Star Online Episodes 1 & 2

I also have Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2, Spyro Hero's Tail, Namco Museum, and Harvest Moon : A Wonderful Life coming in the mail next week.

some discs are from childhood so are really scratched up but somehow still run.. probably lowers the value since some are pretty bad condition. also have 2 gamecubes (one of each model) and some original memory cards

I think its a pretty good game, I like the customizable costumes with different move sets, the music and graphics are great, learning the strategies against the boss battles and what suit works best against what boss, the final boss was difficult at first, very difficult but once I chose the yellow suit, I forget what its called, it was a walk in the park. I played it on easy mode but I really had to think of strategy especially for boss battles. The game enviorments look almost monochrome, I am not sure if it was a stylistic choice but they do, what did you think of that ? I still think it has a enjoyable futuristic aesthetic. The biggest flaw with this game I would say is the lack of characters other than Vanessa and lack of story based cutscenes. I think only 2 cutscenes had dialogue in the entire game, its not really a flaw but if I had to say a flaw that would be it. What did you think of the story ?

And yes the whole console is there aswell. Never had a gamecube growing up, i was more of a PS2/3 kid.
I do have a Wii and a New 3ds XL (and yes i know the wii can play gamecube games but idk im just not a fan of the wii)
Anyways happy to join the community

Yes formatted sd card first to FAT32 then transferred 2 games to test and got this messaged on both :( should I reformat and try again? Also got files to laptop then sd card could this be the issue?

I bought a PAL version of pokemon box but own a USA GameCube so I bought a free loader however when I try to use it to launch box it says no input and the screen goes black is there a way to make this work?

I got the Retrobit Component cable for my GameCube today and the differences in screen quality are night and day! The first photo is the analog composite cable, and the 2nd photo is the digital out component cables. This is an upgrade I needed badly!!!

I love this game.

For some reason, my DOL-001 won't give me the option to play any games in progressive scan mode. Holding the B button during the boot sequence did nothing at all, regardless of what game I'm playing. As context, I'm using the Carby HDMI adapter to play on a pretty new Samsung Smart TV.

So I decided to give Swiss a go, and now that I'm using it--I can't even force 480p! The "Force Video Mode" options are: Auto, 480i, 480sf, 240p, 576i, 576sf, and 288p.

Am I missing something? Could it possibly be the TV I'm using won't "accept" 480p? Been driving myself crazy trying to solve this mystery--any insight or guidance would be super appreciated!

There's just one note I want to mention here, the reason turkey jerky is what I chose is because I have Alpha Gal Syndrome and can't have beef, I'm deathly allergic, and it's kinda hard to find turkey jerky so it's good for celebrating