Originally Posted by Scroto

Hey PGC mailbag,

i was wondering, is there any way that i can hook up my Gamecube with my laptop? i am going to college in about a week and won't have a TV to play on any longer. my TV has to stay at home with my younger sister, we share the TV and my parents sympathized with her, while i am in my dorm. i have 45 games for the system and i don't want them to just sit around not being used. well they would actually be used by the rest of my family just not by me. so am i out of luck or is there a solution to connecting my Cube to my laptop and using the laptop as a screen? thanks for any help,
Josh

Interesting question. If your laptop has a video in jack, like a computer monitor, it should work with a GameCube VGA cable, which can be ordered from various online shops. (Note: VGA adapters are only compatible with progressive scan games.) However, I have no idea whether such a jack is common or even possible on laptops, being more of a desktop guy myself. Another possiblity, though rather convoluted and probably expensive, is to get a graphics card for your laptop with video capture ability. Then it will have RCA-type video jacks, which means you can plug your GameCube's regular A/V cable directly into the laptop. I would guess that there are capture cards for laptops, but they may be pricey.

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