Quote Originally Posted by Mayhem View Post
The essential part of the component cable is the chip in the part that plugs into the GameCube. That's why it costs so much now, because there's no dupe of it. NTSC Cubes supported component, and PAL Cubes supported RGB (in fact no PAL game has 480p present). A couple of enterprising folks in the UK did hack together a component and A/V cable to allow RGB out of an NTSC Cube, but that's the only way you're getting it. I have two of those leads here along with a proper component cable (bought cheap-ish from Play Asia when they were still in stock!).
NTSC cubes have s-video not component. While PAL cubes include the digital output, it's little point without at least a way to force 480p.

Another rarer need for that chip is getting color in 50hz from NTSC cubes. Standard A/V turns black and white.