From: MrGreenonion | #047
3 generations of Nintendo consoles used the same port for the AV cables, so you maybe could have gotten the GameCube component cables and plugged them into an SNES (or an N64 for that matter!).
Nope, you actually can't. The Gamecube component cables use a Digital Out port that is separate from the A/V port. Nintendo also owns the patent on the design, which is why no 3rd-party GCN component cables exist which is why they all cost $80 now.
There might be some wacky 3rd-party peripheral that connects an SNES to a TV through component, but it wasn't set up to support it so any enhancements made that way would be minimal. Kinda like those 3rd-party Wii HDMI converters.
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