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"I have a Gamecube"

well almost.
Ive got mine on order from america

1 console
3 pads
5 games
-Star wars rogue squadron
-luigis mansion
-super smash brothers
-wave race
-pikmin
and a mem card
all for teh tidy sum of £400
i cant wait
the cube looks cool the games look great and nintendos future has nether looked so bright...

i dont like the xbox i prefer the gamecube, although im not saying the x-box is bad far from it i think it will be a good console i just dont like it.
I want a games console fo old.
Put your game in and your away
Has anyone seen the size of teh gamecube disk.
Its amazingly small and holds 1.5 gigs of data
on a 1024x768 res and a 14 inch monitorits like this dimension wise (holding it up to teh screen)

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something like that
and holds 1.5 and its the sexiest bit of plastic i ever seen
all i can say is that christmas is gonna be good

ive had enough *clash of Thunder* THese type of post are two a penny . What is the point "OH i have gamecube Horay!"

that is very nice we all appluade you but you don't have to rub it in all of our %#£"! FACES.

You have a gamecube now.

We will have one Later.

. sorry i had to let it out of my system :0<

and...... That me friends is the end of that chapter

you dont have to pay over £100 extra , if you buy them from ebay , from an american seller , you can pick one up for less than £200 , with the postage cost added aswell ! the best for a brand new one , including postage was about £180 ! not bad at all !

There is a little thing called 'insurance', such as recorded delievery, so until you have signed for it, they cant take the money away from you. Also most major bank cards have insurance on them in case of things going missing in the post.

There is no proof it'll play pal games, but its the same machine with just a little bit of code making it recogonise it as a pal game, its a known fact that no console is totally one region, all can be made to play all regions.

I agree with Solskjaer, I think it's best to wait for the UK Gamecube...Solskjaer just put the point across better than me.

A big factor that obviously affects people to choose to wait rather than import is the cost of it all. You have to pay over £100 more than you would after the UK launch! And the postal system isn't always accurate, things can get lost or un-delivered!! How would you feel about that??

===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> Apparently it is possible to play PAL games on the
> GC, it requires a small bit
> of chipping. I seen it on QXL.com.


So,
> explain to me how someone has tested this on PAL games?

Sonic

I really couldnt say, i dont know the whole details.

Ok, ok Sonic, you put me well and truely in my place...can I please eat my humble pie now?

slave2games wrote:
> I don't think that you should import your Gamecube because of a few reasons.
> First, you cannot totally rely on the company sending you the Gamecube, even if
> it isn't their fault, and it's the Post Office's fault.

This is a very pesimistic view!


Second, you will never
> have the total satisfaction that you own a brand new, UK Gamecube; something
> which I am sure a lot of fans will agree with.

So, the fact you have a GC sooner than anyone else, you get games sooner, and the games are of highter quality with faster refresh rate... that doesn't satisfy you? The fact you get to play games that will never come out in this country!


And finally, you would have to
> either buy the rest of its software from the internet(yes, you may get it
> cheaper, but you could never go to your local Woolworths, or even Special
> Reserve(if you live by one), and get the games that you want), or if you did go
> to a local importer, the games they sell are very expensive, and are not always
> entirely sure of working properly.



NOT AT ALL! What me and friends do is to buy an import when they come out, thus getting the consoles first! Then we either chip them, or get an adaptor so we can play any region games. So now, if we want to, we can get UK games (even though they come out last and run slower than US games!)

sonic

I don't think that you should import your Gamecube because of a few reasons. First, you cannot totally rely on the company sending you the Gamecube, even if it isn't their fault, and it's the Post Office's fault. Second, you will never have the total satisfaction that you own a brand new, UK Gamecube; something which I am sure a lot of fans will agree with. And finally, you would have to either buy the rest of its software from the internet(yes, you may get it cheaper, but you could never go to your local Woolworths, or even Special Reserve(if you live by one), and get the games that you want), or if you did go to a local importer, the games they sell are very expensive, and are not always entirely sure of working properly.

cookie monster wrote:
> Apparently it is possible to play PAL games on the GC, it requires a small bit
> of chipping. I seen it on QXL.com.


So, explain to me how someone has tested this on PAL games?

Sonic