The Old Skool GameCube AC Adapter is the perfect replacement to power up your Nintendo GameCube console with 120-240 volts. Featuring a detachable power cable and 8.5 feet of total length for convenient placement, this AC Adapter lets you plug-in and play your favorite GameCube games again!
First-- I get that this is an inexpensive third-party adapter. It isn`t going to be made to the same standard as the OEM one. I just needed it to work-- which it did, for a short while before utterly failing.
It seemed to work fine initially, but then after being plugged in for a day (console off) it started having issues. It would blink out randomly about every 10-15 minutes during use and then eventually blinked out and then would not muster the power to start the console at all. It would start to deliver power and then brown out, you could see the LED dim as the console tried to start. My cube only draws 1.6A of power, this thing is *supposed* to be able to deliver twice that.
It also got uncomfortably hot. I think I got a defective unit because surely they call can`t be this bad, right?
I would have returned it, but I harvested the end off it so I could attach it to a 12V power supply that actually works.
I have a ``portable`` GameCube setup (in a Pelican-style case, with a monitor, controllers, etc.). In this sort of an application, where space is at a premium, switching to this smaller power supply solved my packaging problem--everything fits now. Connectors fit nicely, build quality seems fine. It`s just a simple power supply. :] But it`s a cost-effective compact power supply that gets the job done.
