I can now play gamecube games on my PC. What old underrated game should I play first?

[Exius Xavarus]

u wot, m8?

No. I wasn't joking. Don't like it? Deal with it. Everyone's got their own opinion and whether you like the same games I do or not, I'll thank you not to shit on mine simply because you disagree.

 

[regalphantom]

My list of 'must plays' for the gamecube are:

Wind Waker
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2
Tales of Symphonia
Super Mario Sunshine
Luigi's Mansion
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Pikmin
Pikmin 2
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Timesplitters 2
Spiderman 2
Reign of Fire
Skies of Arcaida
Lost Kingdoms
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

 

[ResonanceSD]

Pretty sure Thousand Year Door is the best game on the Cube =D

 

[Quazimofo]

Ok, I know it wasn't a gamecube exclusive, but I played it on the Gamecube first and only so to me it may as well be.

Also, every other game people have mentioned so far. So many of them are absolutely excellent. I'm personally a fan of luigi's mansion and pikmin in particular (because due to the depression at my pikmin dying, as well as my legit fear of the luigi's mansion ghosts when I was a kid, it was satisfying to go back and finally kick their asses)

 

[OvBr]

Def Jam: Fight for NY is an EXTREMELY underrated fighting game.

I second that. It is over the top, stupid fun. I will never forget Redman's pre-fight taunt [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=v0sivxFZYl8#t=20s].

Oh, god, I haven't played that game in years. Thanks for reminding me of it's existence. Now I have to play it later.

They were said before, but I'll second the recommendations for Rogue Leader, Eternal Darkness, and Luigi's Mansion. Some other games I remember enjoying on the Gamecube would be Viewtiful Joe, Chibi-Robo!, Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, and Pokémon Colosseum/Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness.

 

[XX Y XY]

My top 3 picks:

Eternal Darkness
Skies of Arcadia
Baten Katos

 

[Quazimofo]

Also, how does one even manage to play Gamecube games on their PC? do they modify the disk drive or get a particular one? And how does one make the controller usb compatible? Are there ones that just already have a USB port? Is there a USB converter?


And I'm aware that for games you can download many of them, but I'm looking to see if there is a way to do it that is much less questionably legal.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Rogue Leader, Rogue Leader, Rogue Leader, Rogue Leader. It is literally mankind's greatest achievement to date. Have you played Rogue Leader yet? Why aren't you playing Rogue leader. STOP READING THIS AND PLAY ROGUE LEADER!!!

I thought about buying it last Saturday. Saw a box copy and a local retro gaming store for around 15 dollars, but I felt I was getting more value by spending $10.56 (after taxes) to get three SNES games, one being NBA Jam(played it to death with my brother when we rented it from the video store as kids), so fond memories as a kid beats brief memories, also price.

I never owned Rogue Leader, a friend did, I liked it. What I did(and still do) own is the third one, Rebel Strike. That one is also awesome, played the Endor forest speeder-bike mission so excessively that I could get perfect on it like 95% of the time, oh, and the iconic imperial capitol ship run where in the end the A-wing crashes into the ship's bridge.

Going further back, recently I got an a complete in box copy of the N64 Rogue Squadron off of E-Bay for around 15 dollars, plus or minus a dollar(don't remember exactly).

 

[ever-vigilant]

Jebus there are a lot of good games.
Eternal Darkness, Beyond good and evil, tales of symphonia, skies of arcadia, killer 7, Def jam, thousand year door, metal arm glitch in the system,Luigis mansion, Viewyiful joe, harvest moon a wonderful life, chibi robo, sega soccer slam,time splitters 2& 3, pikmin 1&2 and second sight off the top of my head.
Not all are exclusive but all are damnd good.

 

[Snotnarok]

Well you can also say that buying a gamecube now isn't going to help fund nintendo any since they've long since stopped production and honestly they probably want less purchase of that and more purchase of remakes they'd kicking out.

While they can't say jack about it if you buy what's already out there because it is in circulation, they can however, if they feel like it, sue you out the ass for downloading an playing their property for free(legally, it doesn't mean crap if they aren't making money off it anymore), especially a game that they have re-released on another system, like on the virtual console.

That is why I recommended in my other post that before emulation, a person should at least buy a copy of the game they are emulating.

I said nothing about games, I meant only emulating the game, as in putting the disc in your drive to play it not downloading it. I'm fully aware roms are illegal, though if Sega were to tell me to stop playing a rom of SOnic 3 & Knuckles I would humbly show them the 2 sets of carts I have, Sega Collection for PS2 and the digital ver I have on PC.

 

[Pebkio]

This is a weird thread to be seeing on a site that actively shuts down people who admit to piracy. Especially how you seem to be talking about picking up any ol' game. I mean, there's no law or precedent that really applies to having an image of a game if you already have a copy of the disk, sure, for it could be considered as "working backup" for unreliable digital tech. And emulators aren't stealing from anyone, so that's not illegal. But it'd still be copyright infringement to just pick up any ROM or ISO you want.

Or to directly respond to this guy:

In before someone tries to label "emulation is immoral piracy and please ban OP for piracy" junk.

Emulation isn't illegal. 100% truth. Any unofficial distribution and download of a game (that isn't freeware) is... even if it's an emulator-ready image of that game.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that you aren't doing that.

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I would also vote for Eternal Darkness, if you haven't yet played it, but finding a copy of that is hard. I had finally found one a while ago, but once I unlocked the secret ending, I sold it again. It's still worth some money. Tales of Symphonia is also kinda pricey. Timesplitters is a good choice; that one is a bit more common and less pricey because, unlike most of the other suggestion, it was actually underrated.

 

[Quazimofo]

Also, how does one even manage to play Gamecube games on their PC? do they modify the disk drive or get a particular one? And how does one make the controller usb compatible? Are there ones that just already have a USB port? Is there a USB converter?


And I'm aware that for games you can download many of them, but I'm looking to see if there is a way to do it that is much less questionably legal.

Its a dolphin emulator. You make ISOs of your gamecube discs. You cannot use a gamecube pad, but you can blue tooth a Wii controller and plug in the Classic Controller I think.

I just use the 360 controller. I have the wireless adapter.

Well that seems simple enough. What program did you use to make the ISOs?

 

[New Frontiersman]

I nominate Tales of Symphonia. As long as you like/don't mind the JRPG genre, it's a must-play - it's fun, with a strong plot and fun characters, and it doesn't devolve into the major cliches of the genre (it even subverts a lot of them!). And, the cherry on top, it even has real time combat rather than turn-based.

Tales of Symphonia was definitely one of my favorite GameCube games and probably goes into a list of my top games of all time. If you like RPGs another GameCube must is Baten Kaitos or Baten Kaitos: Origins. They're both amazing and have a unique world and story, compelling characters, and perhaps most interestingly an incredibly unique battle system. Although I've heard the voice acting in the first one was pretty bad so you might want to turn off voices in that one, the acting in the second one is pretty good though.

You already mentioned F-Zero GX so no need to bring that up again.

Most of the best games have already been brought up already actually, but those are just my suggestions.

Also, how does one even manage to play Gamecube games on their PC? do they modify the disk drive or get a particular one? And how does one make the controller usb compatible? Are there ones that just already have a USB port? Is there a USB converter?


And I'm aware that for games you can download many of them, but I'm looking to see if there is a way to do it that is much less questionably legal.

I know there is at least one working GameCube/Wii emulator out there. To play it the buttons and analogue sticks are just mapped to computer keys, it's not perfect since the games were designed to be played with a controller but at least it functions. Some games it works pretty well on it I've heard, but for others there's some slowdown.

As for getting the games, I suppose since they use disks you could conceivably get them running on a computer or extract the data somehow, but I'm betting most people just download the games for it. Not that I'm endorsing that or anything.

 

[NightmareExpress]

Battalion Wars
Resident Evil (Remake)
Resident Evil 0
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Master Quest)
Mario Power Tennis (doesn't work great on Dolphin)
Super Smash Brothers Melee (works great on Dolphin)

A lot of the other ones that I would mention have already been said and justified.

 

[LtFerret]

Custom Robo and Battalion Wars
Also its not really underrated but Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

 

[EstrogenicMuscle]

I nominate Tales of Symphonia. As long as you like/don't mind the JRPG genre, it's a must-play - it's fun, with a strong plot and fun characters, and it doesn't devolve into the major cliches of the genre (it even subverts a lot of them!). And, the cherry on top, it even has real time combat rather than turn-based.

Tales of Symphonia was definitely one of my favorite GameCube games and probably goes into a list of my top games of all time.

I like you two. Tales of Symphonia is seriously one of the most solid RPGs ever made.

And a Gamecube essential. That makes at least three of us recommending Tales of Symphonia.