There are third party cables, most of them are cheaper, and they're often gold plated and have extra shielding.
I got the Psyclone component cables. There isn't much you can do with cables, so I figured gold-plating and shielding would make it better than Nintendo's cables, which looked pretty cheapy actually. They look much improved over composite, so I'm satisfied.
They cost me $25 at Circuit City, you can probably find them for about $20 somewhere. Nintendo's were $35.
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