Platform: Nintendo GameCube
RTX Red Rock
NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup
I-Ninja
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Resident Evil
Dr. Seuss': The Cat in the Hat
Mario Superstar Baseball
Mortal Kombat: Deception
Diddy Kong Racing Adventure
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love
Spider-Man 2
Kirby Air Ride
Luigi's Mansion
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai
Ratatouille
Conker's Other Bad Fur Day
Donkey Konga 2
Donkey Konga 2
Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest
Mega Man Anniversary Collection
Nintendo Puzzle Collection
Donkey Kong Racing
Resident Evil 4
Doubutsu no Mori e+
One Piece: Pirates' Carnival
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Puyo Pop Fever
P.N.03
X2: Wolverine's Revenge
Alien Hominid
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
Shrek SuperSlam
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature From the Krusty Krab
Shadow the Hedgehog
Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix
Roll-o-Rama
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius: Attack of the Twonkies
Pac-Man Vs.
Shrek
Viewtiful Joe
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island
Kameo: Elements of Power
Need for Speed: Underground 2
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Channel (Game), Super Smash Bros. Melee (Game), Pokémon (Franchise), Super Smash Bros. (Franchise)
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"This...is Meowth's dream. Meowth strides all over the globe, scattering invitations to other Pokémon, insisting they come to "Meowth's Party." At this wonderful party, guests are packed in like sardines as Meowth climbs up the stage with its faithful guitar. It strikes a chord, pauses, and then rocks their world!"
A version of Meowth's Party eventually made its way into the GameCube release of Pokémon Channel.
Spaceworld 2000 Meowth's Party tech demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok?t=1387
Pokémon Channel Meowth's Party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DcqH7Cl9MY
Meowth Trophy image:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/File:Meowth_Trophy_Melee.png
Original Pokémon anime short:
https://vimeo.com/267748188
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok?t=1387
Pokémon Channel Meowth's Party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DcqH7Cl9MY
Meowth Trophy image:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/File:Meowth_Trophy_Melee.png
Original Pokémon anime short:
https://vimeo.com/267748188
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In an interview with VGC for The GameCubes's 20th anniversary, veteran Rare developer Martin Hollis revealed that not only was he among the first people to see "Project Dolphin", but also that he was possibly responsible for the GameCube's name and theme:
Nintendo did indeed trademark "Starcube" lending more legitimacy to Hollis' suspicion.
“I arrived in Kyoto, went into the big building, and Mr. Miyamoto and his team straight away took me to this empty meeting room and sat me down in front of a television [...] They switched it on, and Miyamoto told me to press the A button on the controller. I pressed it and the purple rolling cubes appeared on screen with the boot up music that we now know so well, revealing the GameCube name. [...] As the on-screen reveal happened, Mr. Miyamoto stared at my face intensely! That was my initiation, which was maybe because I’d actually suggested the name ‘Cube’ during my time at NTD. Months earlier I did a sheet of paper at Nintendo of America with a whole load of suggestions for names and one of them was ‘Star Cube’ or something like that.”
Nintendo did indeed trademark "Starcube" lending more legitimacy to Hollis' suspicion.
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In the GameCube 20th anniversary VGC interview, it was revealed that former Nintendo of America VP of marketing Perrin Kaplan thought that there was one aspect of the GameCube that he and NoA were not fond of and made them extremely nervous about the console's perception:
Nintendo of Europe was not to easy on the color either with the company's veteran Shelly Peirce revealing that one person referred to it as a "Fischer-Price record player". However Pierce remained optimistic because he felt that what Nintendo was doing was uniquely different than the competition.
"We actually suggested that the purple was not the best [console color] to start with and [Japan] said, ‘no, we’re going to use that [...] Then we pushed for black and silver, because I think in the US nobody had ever really done the purple colour before. [...] It wasn’t that you couldn’t bring out hardware that was a different colour, it was just a very… ‘female’ looking colour. It just didn’t feel masculine, I think. I remember us being very nervous at E3 that we were going to get bad press purely based on the colour.”
Nintendo of Europe was not to easy on the color either with the company's veteran Shelly Peirce revealing that one person referred to it as a "Fischer-Price record player". However Pierce remained optimistic because he felt that what Nintendo was doing was uniquely different than the competition.
subdirectory_arrow_right NBA Courtside 2002 (Game)
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The Brazilian release of the Nintendo GameCube has special code that patches a crash glitch that can only be found in NBA Courtside 2002. This patch does not exist in any other version of the hardware.
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The component and D-Terminal cables were sold exclusively through Nintendo's website before being quickly discontinued due to a lack of demand, as few commercial televisions at the time supported component video; additionally, later models of the GameCube remove the digital out port entirely. However, the cables' high demand on secondhand markets resulted in fans creating adapters for the digital out port, using the raw signal to make the console compatible with digital HDMI cables.
Nintendo GameCube hardware video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVX81e6Ig-s
Nintendo GameCube HDMI, Component & RGB Plug 'n Play Solutions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RBgbA8DhM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVX81e6Ig-s
Nintendo GameCube HDMI, Component & RGB Plug 'n Play Solutions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RBgbA8DhM0
subdirectory_arrow_right Nintendo (Company)
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Spaceworld 2000 video footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok#t=251
Console Variations listing for Spaceworld 2000 model of the Nintendo GameCube:
https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/nintendo-gamecube-spaceworld-2000-console
GoNintendo article:
https://gonintendo.com/contents/19817-incredibly-rare-spaceworld-2000-gamecube-discovered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok#t=251
Console Variations listing for Spaceworld 2000 model of the Nintendo GameCube:
https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/nintendo-gamecube-spaceworld-2000-console
GoNintendo article:
https://gonintendo.com/contents/19817-incredibly-rare-spaceworld-2000-gamecube-discovered
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• The A button being blue, like the Z button rather than green, but keeping it's circular shape.
• The B button being green, like the final A button rather than red, and bean shaped like the X and Y buttons rather than circular.
• The start button being red like the final B button as well as being bulbous and protruding as compared to the final start button being flat, grey, and made of rubber.
An accompanying tech demo used assets from Luigi's Mansion including one of the basic ghosts which reacted differently depending on what button was used:
• Using the A, B, X, and Y buttons made it spit out the corresponding letter
• Stretching for the L button and squishing for the R button
• Emitting a slower version of Boo's laugh for the Z button
• Emitting a normal ghost noise for the control stick
• Changing orientation for the C-stick
• Emitting sounds similar to that of Pikmin for any of the D-pad directions
The inclusion of the Pikmin noises makes sense as Luigi's Mansion contained a trailer for Pikmin upon release.
Spaceworld 2000 video footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok#t=625
Pikmin trailer in Luigi's Mansion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZuMIIwtYF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok#t=625
Pikmin trailer in Luigi's Mansion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZuMIIwtYF0
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Although the GameCube Controller itself was well beloved by fans, head of Platinum Games (and former Capcom dev) Atsushi Inaba said it was actually quite frustrating to develop for for devs like him and he wasn't a big fan of it and it's layout and design.
Inaba, however still praised the system's software and hardware, saying that it was very easy to develop games for the console itself.
"I didn’t play a lot of GameCube games myself, but on the development side of things you imagined that maybe when Miyamoto-san was designing his games, the large green A button was the one he wanted to get hit first so he made it big [...] When working on Viewtiful Joe, we made the A button the jump button but because it was an action game players wanted to punch and kick, so they would sometimes hit the A button expecting that. In development, you don’t want the player to pick up the controller with any kind of strange prejudices about which button is going to do what. It’s almost safer not to have too much imbalance with the buttons."
Inaba, however still praised the system's software and hardware, saying that it was very easy to develop games for the console itself.
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At Spaceworld 2000, it was announced that a version of the Gamecube Memory Card that would have expandable memory via an SD card would be released. However, this never came to fruition.
A similar device that allowed for the plugging in of an SD card into memory card slot was released alongside Dobutsu no Mori e+ in Japan, however this was only to take screenshots and did not allow for the saving of game data.
A similar device that allowed for the plugging in of an SD card into memory card slot was released alongside Dobutsu no Mori e+ in Japan, however this was only to take screenshots and did not allow for the saving of game data.
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The original slogan for the GameCube, "The Nintendo Difference," was meant to distinguish Nintendo from its competitors as an entertainment company first and foremost.
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According to former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, the GameCube's cheap price was the result of Nintendo's perception that gamers cared only about the games themselves, and that game consoles were just pieces of hardware that were required to play the games. As a result, Nintendo decided to make the GameCube's price significantly lower than the competition's in order to make the former's titles more accessible to consumers.
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The GameCube was the first Nintendo console to lack a launch title that starred Mario as the protagonist.
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Nintendo had once patented and developed a prototype motion controller for the GameCube; this controller went so far into development that game developer Factor 5 experimented with them for potential use in their launch titles.
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There exists a GameCube Service Disk that was used by the Nintendo World Class Service to test and diagnose problems with the console and peripherals. It is assumed that once Nintendo retired the World Class Service, they took back the disks and destroyed them, which would explain why there are very few ever found.
This disk contains a fair amount of unused content, from unused sounds and unused test pictures to stereoscopic 3D test pictures.
This disk contains a fair amount of unused content, from unused sounds and unused test pictures to stereoscopic 3D test pictures.
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The GameCube is actually capable of rendering stereoscopic 3D. The GameCube was going to have an add-on that would attach to a TV and enable it to properly display 3D games. The first planned game for the add-on was Luigi's Mansion. The add-on was eventually cancelled as it would have cost more than the console itself.
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