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GC may stand for:

In geography

• Greater China
• Gold Coast
• Goose Creek (South Carolina)
• Gran Canaria (Grand Canary in the Canary Islands)

Organizations

Education organizations

• Gordon College (Pakistan), an institution of higher education in Pakistan
• Gordon College (Massachusetts), an institution of higher education in Wenham, Massachusetts
• Government College University in Lahore, Pakistan
• Goshen College
• Greensboro College
• Greenville College
• The Grantsmanship Center

Other organizations

• Garnier Corporation
• GC, a major Japanese dental manufacturer founded in 1921^[1]
• General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the governing body of the Seventh-day Adventists church
• Global Crossing, a telecommunications company
• Golden Corral, a restaurant
• Good Charlotte, a rock band from Maryland, USA.
• Government of Canada
• Grasshopper-Club Zürich, a Swiss sports club
• Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Europeen (European actuarial associations)
• Guardia Civil (the gendarmerie in Spain)
• Guitar Center, a chain of retailers of musical instruments
• Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force

People

• GC - Yury (George) Chernavsky - Russian-born composer, producer and arranger
• Gabrielle Christian
• Gary Cole
• Gary Condit
• Gary Cooper
• George Carlin
• George Clinton (disambiguation), several people
• George Clooney
• Gia Carangi
• Glenn Close

In science/technology

• clayey gravel, a Unified Soil Classification System symbol
• GC-content, a sequence composition of DNA molecules in genetics
• Gallocatechin, a plant polyphenol molecule
• Garbage collection (computer science)
• Gas chromatography (Gas-liquid chromatography)
• General Catalogue (astronomy)
• Georgia Central Railway, a class III railroad in Georgia, USA
• Germinal center, an area in a lymph node
• gigacoulomb, an SI symbol for electric charge equal to 10⁹ coulomb
• Gliomatosis cerebri, a type of brain tumor
• Glivenko–Cantelli theorem in probability
• Glucocorticoid, a type of steroid hormone
• Goldbach's conjecture (in number theory)
• Google Chrome, a web browser created by Google
• GraphiCon, International conference on computer graphics and computer vision
• Graphing calculators
• Great circle (navigation)
• Guanine-Cytosine (genetics)
• Guanylate cyclase, an enzyme

Other

• GC (character), a fictitious cat on 1980s Mexican television
• Gambia International Airlines (IATA code)
• GameCube
• Games Convention held in Leipzig, Germany
• General Classification, the aggregate placing in a multiple-stage cycling race
• General contractor
• General counsel
• Genetic counseling
• DIN 19303 Code for Gestrichener Chromokarton (German), a grade of paperboard also known as FBB, made from 'pigment coated', 'virgin mechanical pulp'
• George Cross
• Global citizenship
• Global Community
• Gold Coins
• Grand Concourse
• Green Card
• Ground control
• Group Captain (Royal Air Force)
• Guidance counselor

References

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Translingual

Symbol

GC

1. (metrology) Symbol for the gigacoulomb, an SI unit of electric charge equal to 10⁹ coulombs.

Initialism

GC

1. (astronomy) Boss General Catalogue

English

Initialism

GC

1. (cycling) General Classification
2. (programming) garbage collect, garbage collection, garbage collector
3. Gas Chromatography
4. General Committee, the general management committee of a constituency party of the British Labour Party
5. Nintendo GameCube
6. George Cross (Medal)
7. good condition
8. (astronomy) General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters

Derived terms

• (astronomy): NGC

Anagrams

• Anagrams of CG

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Nintendo GameCube
Manufacturer	Nintendo
Active	2001—2006
Total Games	651 (210 present)
← Nintendo 64	Wii →

The Nintendo GameCube is Nintendo's fourth home gaming system. It sports the following features:

• Four controller ports
• Two memory card slots
• Room for an optional broadband adapter for LAN (and online play, with third-party software)
• Can attach an optional Game Boy player
• Comes in three colours: black, purple, and silver

The GameCube is succeeded by Wii, which can also play GameCube game disks and supports several GameCube controllers and accessories.

Q Multimedia Console
Manufacturer	Matsushita, Nintendo
Active	2001—2006

The Q Multimedia Console is a GameCube with the ability to play DVDs, audio CDs, MP3 CDs as well as several other features, but is only available in Japan.

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Nintendo GameCube
Manufacturer	Nintendo
Type	Console
Release Date	September 14, 2001 (JP) November 18, 2001 (NA) May 3, 2002 (EU)
Media	GameCube Optical Disk
Save Format	Memory Card
Input Options	Gamecube Controller
Special Features	Game Boy Advance connectivity
Units Sold	over 20 million worldwide
Top Selling Game	Super Smash Bros. Melee
Variants	Panasonic Q
Competitor(s)	PlayStation 2 Microsoft Xbox
Predecessor	Nintendo 64
Successor	Wii

The Nintendo GameCube (originally code-named "Dolphin" during development; abbreviated as GCN) is Nintendo's fourth home video game console, and part of the sixth-generation of video game consoles. It is a cube-shaped, 4-player console with features such as GBA connectivity and unsupported online play.

The Nintendo GameCube uses a unique storage medium, a proprietary format based on Matsushita's optical-disc technology; the discs are approximately 8 centimeters (3 1/8 inches) in diameter (considerably smaller than a standard CD or DVD), and the discs have a capacity of approximately 1.5 gigabytes. The Nintendo GameCube does not have any DVD-movie support, but a Nintendo GameCube hybrid product containing movie functionality has been released by Matsushita in Japan, named "DVD/GAME Player Q."

Games

Key first-party titles

The Nintendo GameCube software library contains such traditional Nintendo series as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid.

Some of the more noteworthy Nintendo published titles include:

Major third-party titles

Sample Screenshots

Resident Evil 4 Capcom	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Nintendo/EAD (2003)	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Nintendo/EAD (2005)	Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Nintendo/Retro Studios (2004)
Soul Calibur II Namco	SSX 3 EA	Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II Nintendo/Factor 5 (2001)	Pikmin 2 Nintendo/EA (2004)
F-Zero GX Nintendo/Sega/Amusement Vision (2003)	Super Monkey Ball 2 Sega/Amusement Vision (2003)	Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Nintendo (2005)	Viewtiful Joe 2 Capcom (2003)
Super Mario Sunshine Nintendo/EAD (2002)	Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem Nintendo/Silicon Knights (2002)	Madden NFL 2005 EA (2004)	Super Smash Bros. Melee Nintendo (2001)
NBA Street 3 EA (2005)	Super Paper Mario Nintendo (2006)

Hardware specifications

The following are hardware specifications provided by Nintendo of America.

Central processing unit

• Name: "Gekko"
• Producer: IBM
• Core Base: PowerPC 750CXe, 43-mm² die (modified PowerPC 750 RISC with 50 new instructions)
• Manufacturing Process: 0.18 micrometre IBM copper-wire technology
• Clock Frequency: 485 MHz
• CPU Capacity: 1125 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1)
• Internal Data Precision:
  • 32-bit Integer
  • 64-bit Floating-point, usable as 2x32-bit SIMD
• External Bus:
  • 1.3 gigabyte/second peak bandwidth
  • 32-bit address space
  • 64-bit data bus; 162 MHz clock
• Internal Cache:
  • L1: instruction 32KB, data 32KB (8 way)
  • L2: 256KB (2 way)

Graphics processing unit

• Name: "Flipper"
• Producer: ArtX/Nintendo (ArtX was acquired by ATi Technologies in 2000 and is now a part of ATi)
• Manufacturing Process: 0.18 micrometre NEC embedded DRAM process
• Clock Frequency: 162 MHz
• Embedded Frame Buffer:
  • Approximately 2 megabytes in capacity
  • Sustainable latency of 6.2 nanoseconds
  • RAM type is 1T-SRAM
• Embedded Texture Cache:
  • Approximately 1 megabyte in capacity
  • Sustainable latency of 6.2 nanoseconds (6.2ns)
  • RAM type is 1T-SRAM
• Texture Read Bandwidth: 10.4 gigabytes/second (at peak)
• Main Memory Bandwidth: 2.6 gigabytes/second (at peak)
• Fill Rate: 648 megapixels/second
• Pixel Depth:
  • 24-bit RGB / RGBA
  • 24-bit Z-buffer
• Image Processing Functions:
  • Fog
  • Subpixel anti-aliasing
  • 8 hardware lights
  • Alpha blending
  • Virtual texture design
  • Multi-texturing, bump mapping
  • Environment mapping
  • MIP mapping
  • Bilinear filtering
  • Trilinear filtering
  • Anisotropic filtering
  • Real-time hardware texture decompression (S3TC)
  • Real-time decompression of display list
  • Hardware 3-line deflickering filter

Aural functionality

• Producer: Macronix
• Clock Frequency: 81 MHz
• Instruction Memory:
  • 8 kilobytes of RAM
  • 8 kilobytes of ROM
• Data Memory:
  • 8 kilobytes of RAM
  • 4 kilobytes of ROM
• Simultaneous Channels: 64 channels
• Encoding: ADPCM
• Sampling Frequency: 48 kHz

Other system specifications

• System Floating-point Arithmetic Capability: 10.5 GFLOPS (at peak) (MPU, Geometry Engine, HW Lighting Total)
• Real-world Polygon Performance: 6 million to 12 million polygons/second (at peak) (assuming actual game conditions with complex models, fully textured, fully lit, etc.)*
• Main RAM:
  • Approximately 24 megabytes in capacity
  • Sustainable latency of 10 nanoseconds
  • RAM type is 1T-SRAM
• Auxiliary RAM:
  • Approximately 16 megabytes in capacity
  • 81 MHz in speed
  • RAM type is DRAM
• Disc Drive:
  • Drive type is Constant Angular Velocity (CAV)
  • Average access time is 128 milliseconds
  • Data transfer speed is between 2 megabytes per second and 3.125 megabytes per second
• Disc Media:
  • Based on DVD technology
  • Diameter is 3 inches in length
  • Producer is Matsushita (Also known as Panasonic)
  • Approximately 1.5 gigabytes in capacity
• Controller Ports: 4
• Memory Card Slots: 2
• Analog Audio/Video Outputs: 1
• Digital Video Outputs: 1 *
• High-speed Serial Ports: 2
• High-speed Parallel Ports: 1
• Power Supply: AC Adapter DC12 volts x 3.25 amperes
• Physical Measurements of Entire System: 110 mm (H) x 150 mm (W) x 161 mm (D). [4.3"(H) x 5.9"(W) x 6.3"(D)]

* The Digital output was removed in a hardware revision in May 2004. Models without the port are DOL-101. [1]

Official Nintendo accessories

Controllers and removable storage

• Controller (Standard colours include Purple, Black, Orange, Silver or Purple and clear. There are also many limited edition controllers available such as a split Silver and Red, with the Mario "M" logo replacing the regular GameCube logo seen on standard controllers.)
  • GameCube controllers consist of a rumble motor, two analog sticks (one labeled as c-stick), a D-Pad, L/R analog trigger buttons (each with a digital click), a digital trigger button (z button, located above the R-Trigger), and 4 face buttons. The face buttons are distinctively shaped so that players can rely on feeling the shape of the button instead of memorizing button locations.
  • In 2003, Nintendo released the Wavebird (RF wireless controller), a variation of the Gamecube controller that uses RF for wireless play. Using two AA batteries, the Wavebird can last up to 80 hours of use on one set of batteries.
• Memory Card (59, 251 or 1019 blocks. A maximum of 127 files can be stored on a memory card)
• GameCube Game Boy Advance Cable (for games that support connectivity between the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance)
• Modem or Broadband adapter (for internet or LAN play)
• Game Boy Player (to play Game Boy games on the television, using either a GameCube controller or a connected Game Boy Advance)
• Component video cable (for progressive scan (480p) support) which requires a GameCube with Digital Video Output. Less than one percent of GameCube owners used 480p, therefore the digital output was eventually removed from the design to reduce the system's manufacturing costs. See System Specifications above and Official Information.)
• Bongos (known in Japan as tarukonga)for use with the music games Donkey Konga, Donkey Konga 2 and Donkey Konga 3, and the Donkey Kong platform title Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.
• Microphone, which plugs into memory card slot, for use with Mario Party 6, Mario Party 7 and Yoot Saito's Odama.
• Mario Dance Pad, for use with a Nintendo version of Dance Dance Revolution, called Dance Dance Revolution with Mario.

Connectivity

The GameCube system also has the unique capability to connect to Nintendo's portable system Game Boy Advance or its SP variant. Such a connection between the two systems allows the transfer of game data. Examples of this functionality include the use of the Game Boy Advance as a controller for the game played. Subsequent information related to game play may be displayed on the Game Boy Advance's color screen for added convenience or to avoid the cluttering of the display on the television screen. This functionality has also been used to unlock "secrets" such as new levels or characters when two games, a Game Boy Advance game and its GameCube equivalent, are connected together. Up to four Game Boy Advance systems can be connected to the GameCube through the GameCube's four controller ports for multiplayer play. A special Nintendo GameCube to Game Boy Advance connection cable is required for each Game Boy Advance system that is to be connected to the GameCube. A fair variety of GameCube games implement this innovative functionality, while Nintendo encourages its continued use.

Games that supported the GameCube - Game Boy Advance Connectivity (Important games are bolded):

Price history

North America

• US$199 (November 18, 2001, Launch Price)
• US$99 (2004)
• CAD$299 (November 18, 2001, Launch Price)
• CAD$129 (2004)

See also

• List of GameCube games
• Game Boy Advance

External links

• Official Nintendo website