Price: ~£200/$250+ Carby Component Cable (Insurrection Industries) Phoar, those are some high-quality connectors right there, just look at them The catch? It costs a bomb on the secondary market, hence the arrival of the more sensibly-priced Carby Component Cable. If you want to run your system on an old-school TV and get the best possible picture, then this is the one to beat. The official cable is wonderful and even comes with this box that you can put on your shelf, knowing that you have the best official cable on the market. Official Nintendo GameCube Component Cable Beautiful isn't it?

We've been really impressed with the HDMI adaptors and therefore wanted to give this new cable a spin and compare it to the other options available. This is, in fact, a reproduction Component cable that makes use of a custom version of the 'GC-Video' system to create a component image, and therefore shouldn't be considered a like-for-like replacement for the official cable – but, given the fact that it comes with the same connections, it's clearly aiming for the same sector of the market. The latest product to hit the market in this arena is the Carby Component Cable from Insurrection Industries. These cables have then been reverse-engineered into a circuit board dubbed 'GC-Video' which allows for the HDMI signal to exist.

The cool thing about these adaptors is that they take advantage of the fact that the Official Component cable contained a processor that did all the grunt work converting the signal into a component image.

Fast forward to 2019, and there are a couple of nifty HDMI adaptors that give you a pure digital signal from the GameCube over HDMI.

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