28th September 2004, 12:49 PM
Nintendo ditched the higher level video support on newer Gamecubes? Are you sure? Well, it's not a surprise really I guess.... Nintendo has been ditching video modes on updated versions of their system for years now. The NES lost AV with the top loading version, as opposed to Japan's aptly named "AV Famicom" which ADDED it (Also it lost the expansion port, only in America though, but since the Disk Drive never came to America, no matter). The SNES remodel shrunk the size, but ditched S-Video support (Also lost expansion port, also doesn't matter since the "Satellavision" or whatever it was called never was released here). The N64... well the only remodel it got was that special Pikachu edition which was actually bigger... and it ditched the expansion port, both in Japan AND in the US, pretty much admitting the 64DD was a failure.
Now the GCN is ditching composite video?
Eh, oh well. The PS1 ditched half the ports it originally had in it's various remodels (The various video ports were only weird copies of the standard video out port, nothing special, and the expansion port was only used for the Game Shark, which Sony wasn't a fan of anyway). The PSOne model actually ditched the system link port. The PS2 eventually lost that iLink port (not sure what ever might have used it), and now it's loosing the hard disk bay. As I said though, in Japan the system didn't even have the bay, and the HD was external. Honestly, if they leave whatever port was used to plug in that HD on the PSTwo, and bring over the Japanese version of the hard drive, then there's no issue.
Now the GCN is ditching composite video?
Eh, oh well. The PS1 ditched half the ports it originally had in it's various remodels (The various video ports were only weird copies of the standard video out port, nothing special, and the expansion port was only used for the Game Shark, which Sony wasn't a fan of anyway). The PSOne model actually ditched the system link port. The PS2 eventually lost that iLink port (not sure what ever might have used it), and now it's loosing the hard disk bay. As I said though, in Japan the system didn't even have the bay, and the HD was external. Honestly, if they leave whatever port was used to plug in that HD on the PSTwo, and bring over the Japanese version of the hard drive, then there's no issue.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)