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Nintendo Gaming / My LOZ:WW experience

« on: March 26, 2003, 05:10:18 AM »

Well I was at work all day dying for the clock to hit 5:00. But there is a problem....my car is in the shop getting the EMS System Tuned for racing...so I have no car. Well I conviced a friend at work to take me home and much to my surprise my Girlfriend was home and offered to take me to GameStop to pick up the game!!!! Yes

Ok so we get there and the guy knew what I wanted. He handed the game over and asked for my ticket for holding the game. He also offered me the Strategy Guide at 30% off...hell I might as well so I picked that up to.

On the way back my Girlfriend said are you going to be playing that game all day...."I answered yes...why?" Well she had some important things to do in Animal Crossing so she convinced me to let her play AC for 10 minutes before I start the game up. I figured it would be ok cause I need to eat anyway. So I am eating and reading through the game manual and finally the time comes.

I threw the disk in and help down the B button in case you have to initialize Progressive scan for my T.V. The Title Screen came up and I felt so much joy. First off there is only one way to play this game and Metroid...and thats on a 57 inch Widescreen HDTV! Man this game looks so so awesome.

Ok so I didn't get that far last night...mainly because I keept playing with Link and making him do funny things. I also sat still for long periods of time to see what he would do.

My only problem now is that I have to go get a GameBox Advanced now, and share the game with 2 others. My Girlfriends wants to play and another friend wants to play. I got the Tinker thing and I am dying to use him. You should have seen all my friends faces last night watching the game on the HDTV.....so many people commented on how awesome the graphics are...I swear its like watching a cartoon.

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Nintendo Gaming / Metroid Prime in Progressive Scan.....wow!

« on: March 05, 2003, 05:36:31 AM »

Man All I can say is WOW.

Last Week I decided to buy myself a brand new Toshiba 57HDX82 HDTV. Thats right 57inch widescreen HDTV. Knowing that my T.V wouldn't be here until monday March 3rd I ordered the HDTV compat cable from the Nintendo store. Well The t.v came monday but the cable wasn't there yet. Well yesterday to my surprise the cable was on my doorstep.

So I hooked this bad boy up. The only issue I have with the cable is that I have to use the other cable for audio and the fact that it lacks a nice Digital audio connector on it. No worries. My idea here is to buy a extra cable and power cable for the living room that way I can switch from my room to the living room. (My girlfriend tends to play Animal Crossing for atleast 3-4 hours at a time...so its better that she plays that in my room).

Well anyway I guess this could be a review of the cable. Here it goes:

First game I popped in of course was Metroid Prime. I held down the "B" while turning the game on and it prompted me for Progressive Scan. I said yes. Right from the opening screen I could see a difference. Color was way brighter and the black and white levels were alot cleaner. The image on the 57inch screen T.V went from blurry to sharp like a computer monitor.  I actually got bored of metroid prime on the smaller t.v but after hooking this cable up I played last night for 3 hours and noticed a ton of things I was missing mainly because this cable sharpens things up so much that you actually get a better depth perception.

The next test was Skies of Arcadia. The game is not Progressive scan. Knowing that a component (Y/Pb/Pr) cable should give you better quality than a S-Video or standard composite cable I figured the picture should clean up a little. Well it did. Its not the biggest improvement in the world...but it makes a difference on a huge screen. When you have a large HDTV you start to notice alot of stuff about cables, power etc you didn't before. With a normal t.v a little blur, static, vertical/horizontal lines or ghosting won't show up as much...with this T.V you see it all. Sat TV looks like complete crap unless you have a very clean signal...in fact DVD's you even start to notice noise etc if the DVD is done bad. Anyway to my point...this cable does help out and when hooking it up and playing a non-progressive scan game the Picture quality did improve a little.

If you have a HDTV this is a must buy hands down. I give the cable a 9/10. It would get a 10 in my mind if it came with audio connections and even better digital audio connection.

I will try to get a pic of the T.V playing Metroid prime. If only Metroid prime was in 16:9

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Nintendo Gaming / How to hook up the gamecube to a LCD monitor?

« on: February 13, 2003, 08:15:07 AM »

Hey guys,
I read a little about all the nice SCART cables and whatnot....but I was wondering what cable should I use to hookup my gamecube to my 19inch LCD Monitor? Its got a VGA connection and a DVI connection. I would rather use the DVI connection mainly because its alot higher quality connection than the standard VGA.

I figure since the gamecube is in my room and my TV is only 19 inches I might as well hook it up to the LCD monitor since its the same size but way better quality.

Oh and where can I buy one of these cables? Does it come with a stereo connection also?