GameCube

Buying a classic game console like a Gamecube online is always a bit of a gamble. Even if it arrives in perfect working order, there’s a chance the rest of the console could look like it was handled by a rage-filled toddler. Restoring retro hardware is a time-consuming process, but as YouTuber Peter Knetter demonstrates, you can always take a shortcut and just rebuild a console’s externals using Lego.It was just last week that another YouTube channel dedicated to retro gaming hardware demonstrated the versatility and…

See the future that once was A piece of Nintendo history has resurfaced on YouTube. Once-lost footage of Nintendo’s prototype LCD monitor for the GameCube has shown up, years after the hardware was shown at E3 2002. YouTuber and IGN parent company Ziff Davis employee Adam Doree uploaded some footage from the show, as noticed by GoNintendo. This LCD monitor was apparently shown at E3 2002, but was never released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp7KBJv4pqg The attached LCD monitor would have made that GameCube handle…

We all have a favorite video game that we’ve played through time and time again (for me, it’s Link’s Awakening) but for Kaze Emanuar, simply playing through the N64's Super Mario 64 isn’t enough. Through modding, they’re trying to push the game to its absolute limits, and so far the results are unbelievable for a console that’s almost 30 years old.It’s no secret that games released earlier in a console’s life cycle don’t look as good as titles released later on, when developers will have become more familiar with the…

When Microsoft first announced the Xbox would run Windows apps, I don’t think it was thinking of this! You can play Nintendo GameCube and Wii games with a beta version of the Dolphin Emulator built as a Universal Windows Platform app (via Windows Central).SirMangler’s fork of the excellent emulator runs on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, and even the lesser of Microsoft’s two modern consoles reportedly does an excellent job. In the video above, Modern Vintage Gamer shows off impressively smooth performance on…

Hello everyone welcome to the very last Nintendo recap. This week NYXI released a new Switch controller that features a GameCube design and uses Hall Effect joysticks for no drift. But it's so popular that it's been hard to find it in stock. Additionally, some gamers discovered a brand new glitch in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that makes Link invincible and gives him endless stamina. In other news, Ubisoft released a financial report that revealed bad sales in 2022, which has led the company to cancel three…

The Wii has become one of the most hackable and moddable consoles Nintendo has ever released. From the same person who brought you the Altoids tin Wii comes this Wii input card, complete with controller slots, which can be inserted into the back of a Sony broadcast quality CRT monitor for an all-in-oneretro gaming experience that’s a real treat for the eyes.If you assumed that connecting an older, standard definition gaming console to a modern 4K TV would vastly improve the look of its games, you’d be completely wrong.…

Although I thought I was invincible, the dreaded Joy-Con drift has finally come for my Nintendo Switch, which I bought on launch day almost six years ago. I’d be more upset about it were it not for the fact that I just discovered the NYXI Wizard: a replacement dockable Switch controller that looks like a perfect clone of the GameCube’s WaveBird—the best controller Nintendo ever made.Now I know that many gamers would disagree withmy assertion of the WaveBird’s design perfection, and it truly pains my heart thinking about…

I’m too edgy for the purple one The Gamecube occupies a nice little corner of my personal history when hormones were sabotaging any chance I had for a normal adulthood. As such, I view it with quite a lot of fondness. It didn’t have the massive library of the PS2, nor the substantial beef of the Xbox, but it did have one thing that gave it an edge over its competitors: a handle. Below are five games that I picked out of its library to represent its best. You don’t have to agree, but if you come in here making claims…

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another Nintendo recap. I took a few weeks off from reporting on Nintendo news as I was on vacation, but now I'm back and jumping right back into the fray. First off, Nintendo has already revealed its Black Friday deals for participating retailers as we tick down the days to the release of Sonic Frontiers and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet later this month. So check these deals out to save money on games and consoles this year. In other news, a NASCAR driver used a tactic in real life that…

Getting Sony PSP, Nintendo GameCube, and Wii games running on an iPad does mean jumping through some hoops — but if you do it, turns out the M1 iPad Air is the iPad you want to use.We already knew that the M1 iPad Air was a powerhouse thanks to the use of super-speedy Apple silicon, but now a new YouTube video has shown just how well it handles games like a champ.A YouTube video by ETA Prime shows an iPad Air running various emulation apps, all spinning up some of the best games of yesteryear. They include classic PSP…