Would anyone mind bringing me up-to-date...?

[JMC47]

You're pretty silly for investing in the component cables, since you can just use a Wii's component cables and boot discs via homebrew to make them detect it as a GameCube component cable. other than that, it's great to have the games, there are games that Dolphin still doesn't play well, and you need to dump the games anyway for legal use in Dolphin, so, none of the games are wasted money.