My EON GCHD experience so far

I just got the GCHD doohickey this weekend. I watched every review video out there before purchasing and I caught one that gave out a discount code; got mine $135 shipped which made me feel better about the price. So far I’ve played Rogue Leader and Metroid Prime and the best way to describe it is like when a near-sighted person (myself) puts on glasses; it lifts that veil of blurriness that I remember from this console. I’m running it on a 5 year old 32” Insignia 720p LCD TV and it looks like how I imagined a Metroid Prime port on Switch would look: pretty damn good so far. Sparks flying, shadows and other shit have a more modern pop/depth to them almost now that the veil is lifted. Also, there’s no perceivable input lag. I hold the controller up in front of the TV and response is instantaneous.

My negatives are:

1) price, but for a lifetime of use on modern TV’s it’s worth it to me albeit being a little tough to swallow,

2) tight fit inserting it into the Gamecube, this part is certainly true at least for my unit and the “click” wasn’t as satisfying as I’d hope it would be and you really need to get it all the way in for it to work,

3) there’s still the unavoidable anti-aliasing jaggies that become a little more apparent now that the blurring/smoothing is removed, but part of this observation is just due to my salty bias towards anti aliasing in general ever since my eyes first started noticing it a lot in the arcade and on N64. But believe it or not, I notice far less of it here than on something like Battlefield 4 for Xbox One.

This weekend I’m going to try these games on my Wii w/ HD component cables hooked up to the very same TV and compare the two if anybody is interested. I’ve never tried Gamecube games on Wii before and I acknowledge that’s probably what I should have done from the get-go. However, I personally prefer to play the actual Gamecube console.

I hope I offered some extra insight; I know most of this stuff you’ve already heard. I’m open to suggestions for testing it further and I’ll try my best to answer questions. So far, I’m really digging it.

Thanks

Submitted by sam7r61n | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016