The Nintendo GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ; originally code-named "Dolphin" during development; abbreviated as GCN) is Nintendo's fourth home video game console, belonging to the 128-bit era; the same generation as Sega's Dreamcast, Sony's PlayStation 2, and Microsoft's Xbox. The GameCube was released on: Logo of the Nintendo GameCube. ... Black Nintendo GameCube. ... Genera See article below. ... Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂; Ninten is roughly translated as leave luck to heaven or in heavens hands. ... The Nintendo GameCube is an example of a video game console. ... The 128-bit era (or sometimes the Handheld era or Nostalgia era) is the sixth generation of video game consoles and the current video game era, which features the Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation 2, and Microsoft Xbox. ... This article is about the video game company. ... Sega Dreamcast The Sega Dreamcast (Japanese: ドリームキャスト; code-named Katana during development) was Segas last video game console. ... Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758), (NYSE: SNE) is a global consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, after the PlayStation. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... The Xbox is Microsofts game console, released on November 15, 2001. ...

• September 14, 2001 (Japan)
• November 18, 2001 (North America)
• May 3, 2002 (Europe)

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Overview

A Nintendo Gamecube with two controllers, a memory card, and five games.

The GameCube was widely anticipated by many who were shocked by Nintendo's decision to design the Nintendo 64 as a cartridge-based system. Physically shaped similar to a geometric cube, the outside casing of the Nintendo GameCube comes in a variety of colors, such as, indigo, platinum, and black (also a limited edition Resident Evil 4 platinum and black game console). In Japan, the system is also available in orange, or in limited edition colors like Crystal White, Mint Green, Copper, and White with black pinstripes. The Nintendo GameCube uses a unique storage medium, the GameCube Optical Disc, a proprietary format based on Matsushita's optical-disc technology; the discs are approximately 8 centimeters (3 1/8 inches) in diameter (considerably smaller than a standard CD or DVD), and the discs have a capacity of approximately 1.5 gigabytes. The Nintendo GameCube does not have any DVD-movie support, but a Nintendo GameCube hybrid product containing movie functionality has been released by Panasonic in Japan, named "DVD/GAME Player Q." Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1009 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1009 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Nintendo 64, commonly called the N64, is Nintendos third home video game console. ... In a variety of electronic equipments, a cartridge (in video game terms, cart, game pack, or Game Pak) can be one method of programming different functionality, providing variable content, or a method by which consumables may be replenished. ... Three dimensions A cube (or hexahedron) is a Platonic solid composed of six square faces, with three meeting at each vertex. ... Logo for the Panasonic brand Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ... Size of CD compared to pencil. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... This article is about the unit of measurement, for the computer hardware manufacturer see Gigabyte Technology. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Panasonic is principal sponsor of the Toyota F1 team Panasonic is a brand used by Matsushita, a Japanese company, to market its products throughout the world. ... Panasonic Q The Panasonic Q multimedia console is, essentially, a Nintendo GameCube with the ability to play DVDs, as well as several other features. ...

The GameCube system also has the unique capability to connect to Nintendo's portable system Game Boy Advance or its SP variant. Such a connection between the two systems allows the transfer of game data. Examples of this functionality include the use of the Game Boy Advance as a controller for the game played. Subsequent information related to game play may be displayed on the Game Boy Advance's color screen for added convenience or to avoid the cluttering of the display on the television screen. This functionality has also been used to unlock "secrets" such as new levels or characters when two games, a Game Boy Advance game and its GameCube equivalent, are connected together. Up to four Game Boy Advance systems can be connected to the GameCube through the GameCube's four controller ports for multiplayer play. A special Nintendo GameCube to Game Boy Advance connection cable is required for each Game Boy Advance system that is to be connected to the GameCube. A fair variety of GameCube games implement this innovative functionality, while Nintendo encourages its continued use. The Game Boy Advance is a best-selling handheld. ... The SP is hinged in the middle. ...

Despite the protection of a non-standard disc format (essentially a miniature DVD-ROM with non-standard sector and filesystem formatting), a modchip has been released that allows the use of a standard DVD-ROM with a GameCube, to load backed-up, homebrew or pirate software. However, it does not work very well, and no commercial GameCube games have been able to be run on a pirate disc. A modchip is a device used to play import games and/or circumvent the digital rights management of many popular game consoles, including the Xbox and PlayStation. ... Backup in computer engineering refers to the copying of data for the purpose of having a second copy of an original source, in case of damage to the original data source. ... Homebrew video games are video games written by hobby programmers. ... The copyright infringement of software, also called software piracy, refers to several practices when done without the permission of the copyright holder: Creating a copy and selling it. ...

Software library

Key first-party titles

The Nintendo GameCube software library contains such traditional Nintendo series as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid. Mario (Japanese: マリオ, Mario), also known as Super Mario and originally Jumpman, is a video game character created by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo, named after the Italian landlord, Mario Segali, at Nintendo of America. ... The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説 Zeruda no Densetsu; often shortened to just Zelda) is a series of video games created by Nintendo and industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto that began in February 1986. ... The original Metroid provided a thoroughly nonlinear gaming experience. ...

Some of the more popular first-party titles include:

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Approach to third-party developers

One of the defining aspects of the Nintendo GameCube is the rejuvenated relationship between Nintendo and its licensees. Unlike previous generations in which Nintendo was seen by some as bullying its third-party game developers, Nintendo openly sought game-development aid on Nintendo GameCube. Sometimes, Nintendo would merely request that a third-party developer produce a game based on the third-party's own game franchises; other times, Nintendo would request that the third-party developer produce a game based on Nintendo's own game franchises. This effort from Nintendo resulted in many exclusive third-party games for the Nintendo GameCube, and the arrival multiformat titles on the platform. Despite Nintendo's efforts, the GameCube survived due to the "age-10 and under" niche market. Many games popular with more mature audiences such as first-person shooters and the controversial Grand Theft Auto series had bypasses the GameCube in favour of the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, giving the GameCube the reputation of being a "kiddie" console. Many cross-platform games such as sports franchises released by Electronic Arts sold far below their PlayStation 2 and Xbox counterparts. What also hurt GameCube's position in the running was its minimal online support, a growing trend that Nintendo's console rivals embraced. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video or computer games. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, after the PlayStation. ... The Xbox is Microsofts game console, released on November 15, 2001. ...

Major second & third-party titles

• Baten Kaitos (Namco)
• Donkey Konga (from Namco, based on Nintendo's own game properties)
• EA Sports games (Electronic Arts)
• Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Silicon Knights)
• F-Zero GX (from Sega, based on Nintendo's own game properties)
• Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (Square Enix)
• Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, a collaborative enhanced remake between Konami and then-second-party to Nintendo, Silicon Knights
• Resident Evil series (Capcom)
  • Resident Evil Zero, Resident Evil (enhanced remake), Resident Evil 4
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series (Factor 5)
• Sonic the Hedgehog series (Sega)
• Star Fox series
  • Star Fox Adventures (Rare), Star Fox Assault (Namco)
• Super Monkey Ball series (Sega)
• Tales of Symphonia (Namco)
• TimeSplitters series (Free Radical Design)
• Viewtiful Joe series (Capcom)
• Wario World (from Treasure Co. Ltd, based on Nintendo's own game properties)

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Screenshots

Hardware specifications

The following are hardware specifications provided by Nintendo of America. Some benchmarks provided by third-party testing facilities do indicate, however, that some of these specifications, especially those relating to performance, may be conservative. Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂; Ninten is roughly translated as leave luck to heaven or in heavens hands. ...

Central processing unit

• Name: "Gekko"
• Producer: IBM
• Core Base: PowerPC 750CXe, 43-mm² die (modified PowerPC 750 RISC with 50 new instructions)
• Manufacturing Process: 0.18 micrometre IBM copper-wire technology
• Clock Frequency: 485 MHz
• CPU Capacity: 1125 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1)
• Internal Data Precision:
  • 32-bit Integer
  • 64-bit Floating-point, usable as 2x32-bit SIMD
• External Bus:
  • 1.3 gigabyte/second peak bandwidth
  • 32-bit address space
  • 64-bit data bus; 162 MHz clock
• Internal Cache:
  • L1: instruction 32KB, data 32KB (8 way)
  • L2: 256KB (2 way)

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Graphics processing unit

• Name: "Flipper"
• Producer: ArtX/Nintendo (ArtX was acquired by ATi Technologies in 2000 and is now a part of ATi)
• Manufacturing Process: 0.18 micrometre NEC embedded DRAM process
• Clock Frequency: 162 MHz
• Embedded Frame Buffer:
  • Approximately 2 megabytes in capacity
  • Sustainable latency of 6.2 nanoseconds
  • RAM type is 1T-SRAM
• Embedded Texture Cache:
  • Approximately 1 megabyte in capacity
  • Sustainable latency of 6.2 nanoseconds (6.2ns)
  • RAM type is 1T-SRAM
• Texture Read Bandwidth: 10.4 gigabytes/second (at peak)
• Main Memory Bandwidth: 2.6 gigabytes/second (at peak)
• Fill Rate: 648 megapixels/second
• Pixel Depth:
  • 24-bit RGB / RGBA
  • 24-bit Z-buffer
• Image Processing Functions:
  • Fog
  • Subpixel anti-aliasing
  • 8 hardware lights
  • Alpha blending
  • Virtual texture design
  • Multi-texturing, bump mapping
  • Environment mapping
  • MIP mapping
  • Bilinear filtering
  • Trilinear filtering
  • Anisotropic filtering
  • Real-time hardware texture decompression (S3TC)
  • Real-time decompression of display list
  • Hardware 3-line deflickering filter

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Aural functionality

• Producer: Macronix
• Clock Frequency: 81 MHz
• Instruction Memory:
  • 8 kilobytes of RAM
  • 8 kilobytes of ROM
• Data Memory:
  • 8 kilobytes of RAM
  • 4 kilobytes of ROM
• Simultaneous Channels: 64 channels
• Encoding: ADPCM
• Sampling Frequency: 48 kHz

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Other system specifications

• System Floating-point Arithmetic Capability: 10.5 GFLOPS (at peak) (MPU, Geometry Engine, HW Lighting Total)
• Real-world Polygon Performance: 6 million to 12 million polygons/second (at peak) (assuming actual game conditions with complex models, fully textured, fully lit, etc.)*
• Main RAM:
  • Approximately 24 megabytes in capacity
  • Sustainable latency of 10 nanoseconds
  • RAM type is 1T-SRAM
• Auxiliary RAM:
  • Approximately 16 megabytes in capacity
  • 81 MHz in speed
  • RAM type is DRAM
• Disc Drive:
  • Drive type is Constant Angular Velocity (CAV)
  • Average access time is 128 milliseconds
  • Data transfer speed is between 2 megabytes per second and 3.125 megabytes per second
• Disc Media:
  • Based on DVD technology
  • Diameter is 3 inches in length
  • Producer is Matsushita (Also known as Panasonic)
  • Approximately 1.5 gigabytes in capacity
• Controller Ports: 4
• Memory Card Slots: 2
• Analog Audio/Video Outputs: 1
• Digital Video Outputs: 1 *
• High-speed Serial Ports: 2
• High-speed Parallel Ports: 1
• Power Supply: AC Adapter DC12 volts x 3.25 amperes
• Physical Measurements of Entire System: 110 mm (H) x 150 mm (W) x 161 mm (D). [4.3"(H) x 5.9"(W) x 6.3"(D)]

* The Digital output was removed in a hardware revision in May 2004. Models without the port are DOL-101. [1] (http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/nintendogamecube/component_faq.jsp)

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Media

The GameCube Optical Disc is the media format used by the Nintendo GameCube. The disc is a proprietary version of the 8 cm DVD (MiniDVD) format. The reason Nintendo went with this format was to combat software piracy, by using a format that is hard to replicate. The capacity of the disc is 1.5 GB. Games with large amounts of voice acting or pre-rendered video often need to be put on 2 discs. Something proprietary is something exclusively owned by someone, often with connotations that it is exclusive and cannot be used by other parties without negotiations. ... cm redirects here, alternate uses: cm (disambiguation) A centimetre (symbol cm; American spelling: centimeter) is an SI unit of length. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... There are two types of MiniDVD cDVD, which are 80-mm versions of the 120-mm DVD mini-DVD, which are standard CDs filled with the DVD-video format cDVD A Mini-DVD-RAM with DVD Round Holder. ... The copyright infringement of software is often called software piracy by those seeking to reduce its incidence. ... This article is about the unit of measurement, for the computer hardware manufacturer see Gigabyte Technology. ...

Accessories/peripherals

• Controller (Standard colours include Purple, Black, Orange, Silver or Purple and clear. There are also many limited edition controllers available such as a split Silver and Red, with the Mario "M" logo replacing the regular GameCube logo seen on standard controllers. There are also specially shaped controllers, such as a blood-spattered chainsaw released to coincide with Resident Evil 4.)
• Wavebird (RF wireless controller)
• Memory Card (59, 251 or 1019 blocks. A maximum of 127 files can be stored on a memory card)
• GameCube Game Boy Advance Cable (for games that support connectivity between the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance)
• Modem or Broadband adapter (for internet or LAN play)
• Game Boy Player (to play Game Boy games on the television, using either a GameCube controller or a connected Game Boy Advance)
• Component video cable (for progressive scan (480p) support) which requires a GameCube with Digital Video Output. Less than one percent of GameCube owners used 480p, therefore the digital output was eventually removed from the design to reduce the system's manufacturing costs. See System Specifications above and Official Information (http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/nintendogamecube/component_faq.jsp).)
• VGA Adapter. Allows GameCube play on a standard computer monitor. Several are available from Lik-Sang (http://www.lik-sang.com), however, a game supporting 480p combined with the Component Video cable above, and the VD-Z3 (http://www.vdigi.com) (which has a monitor pass-through) or this (http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=219&products_id=4233&) can give Progressive Scan display quality on a computer monitor.
• In PAL regions, an RF cable for connection to older televisions, and an RGB SCART cable for high-quality connections
• Bongos for use with the music games Donkey Konga, Donkey Konga 2 and Donkey Konga 3, and the Donkey Kong platform title Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.
• Microphone, which plugs into memory card slot, for use with Mario Party 6.

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Marketing

Nintendo has used several advertising schemes for the GameCube. The earliest commercials displayed a rotating cube video, which would quickly morph into the GameCube logo. A voice whispered "GameCube". This was usually after the normal commercial for a GameCube game. Later on, Nintendo incorporated a video clip before the normal clip for the GameCube game would begin, similar to the brief PlayStation 2 logo before a commercial featuring the game. It basically rotated around what appeared to be the top of a GameCube console, with the lettering being slightly 3D. The lettering would begin as a wave, only to settle on the top of the pictured console. Game Boy Advance commercials featured a similar style, only to replace the top of the console with the GBA's D-Pad. More recently, Nintendo has been advertising in the "Who Are You" tangent, essentially marketing the wide range of games Nintendo offers. The Who Are You logo is similar to graffiti lettering. Most of the Who Are You commercials advertised different games, yet some developers incorporated the slogan into their own advertisements. One example is the advertisement campaign for Square Enix's GameCube-exclusive Final Fantasy game, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. One of the newest games with this on its commercial is WarioWare: Twisted! The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, after the PlayStation. ... 3-D or 3D abbreviates three dimensional and is often related to a stereoscopic display that exploits binocular vision. ... The Game Boy Advance is a best-selling handheld. ... The Game Boy Advance is a best-selling handheld. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Who Are You is an album by British rock band The Who. ... Graffiti is a type of deliberately inscribed marking made by humans on surfaces, both private and public. ... SQUARE ENIX (Japanese: スクウェア・エニックス) is a Japanese producer of popular video games and manga. ... American box art for Final Fantasy I. Final Fantasy (Japanese: ファイナルファンタジー Fainaru Fantajii) is a popular series of role playing games produced by Square Enix (originally Square Co. ... Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is a video game for the Nintendo GameCube. ...

Nintendo Revolution

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See also

• Nintendo Systems:
  • Nintendo Entertainment System (1985)
  • Game Boy (1989)
  • Super Nintendo (1991)
  • Virtual Boy (1995)
  • Nintendo 64 (1996)
  • Game Boy Color (1998)
  • Game Boy Advance (2001)
  • Game Boy Advance SP (2003)
  • Nintendo DS (2004)
  • Game Boy Micro (2005)
  • Nintendo Revolution (2006) Unofficial Title

• List of GameCube games

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External links

• Nintendo GameCube (http://www.nintendo.com/systemsgcn) Official site by Nintendo of America
• 1UP.com: GameCube (http://gamecube.1up.com/)
• Cubed3 (http://www.cubed3.com/)
• DMOZ GameCube Directory (http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Console_Platforms/Nintendo/GameCube/)
• GameCube Europe (http://www.cube-europe.com/)
• GameCube Linux (http://www.gc-linux.org/)
• GameCubicle.com (http://www.gamecubicle.com/)
• GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/)
• GCAdvanced.com (http://www.gcadvanced.com/)
• IGNCube (http://cube.ign.com/)
• N-Sider (http://www.n-sider.com/)
• Nintendophiles (http://www.n-philes.com/)
• Planet GameCube (http://www.planetgamecube.com/)
• Samurai Nintendo (http://www.samurainintendo.com/)

• Warp Pipe (http://cubeonline.warppipe.com/) - Application allowing LAN-compatible GameCube games to be played online
• Xlink Kai (http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/) - Another application that allows LAN-compatible GameCube games to be played online