Quoted from DugFreez:I need to find a "purist" to buy my Gamecube component cable for $200ish (the going price).
It seems the smart thing to do would be just to buy a Wii for $50 (which is an exact hardware backwards compatible Gamecube) and then buy a component cable for it for $5....but I know there are purists out there that want their Gamecube games played on a Gamecube and the component cable was the best official output cable for it. The cable brings such a high price because they were never made by a 3rd party (official Nintendo only) and they were also never sold in stores. They could only be bought directly from Nintendo.
I would think you would have to be pretty pure to plunk down $200+ for a cable when you could get the exact same results (same hardware, same controller, same video output) for $150 cheaper than the price of the cable.
I bought mine in a store... $25 back in the day, should have bought 4
