Dreamcast Q: What do i need to...

[AUMM]

play my dreamcast using my computer monitor? its possible right?

 

[Mork]

All you need is a VGA box.

 

[AUMM]

hrrm, how much they cost?

 

[JayPatel]

its possible and boy is it worth it....i just bought a treamcast vga box off ironman on these forums and it truly is unbeleivable the amount of detail that normal tv's cant display when playing dc games. play sonic adventure 2 or soul calibur on both a tv and then on ur monitor and ull know what i mean.

they can be bought for around 20 bucks

 

[fake]

You can also do this with a TV tuner card if you already have one .. thats what I did but there were problems w/ sound

 

[Rendus]

Yes, the VGA box is like night and day. Quite an enjoyable difference Mine was $20 from Electronics Boutique. Definitely worthwhile if you play VGABox-compatible games (the biggest problem is some games are NOT compatible. If they're not compatible, they won't even display on the monitor (at least a couple disks won't.)

 

[oLLie]

A TV tuner card is not at all the same thing as a VGA box. You can use the TV card to display and play on the monitor sure, but you don't get the same great colors, crispness as a VGA adapter.

Ollie

 

[JayPatel]

<< You can also do this with a TV tuner card if you already have one .. thats what I did but there were problems w/ sound >>

yeah but then u got signal degredation so its kind of pointless going that route. i wouldnt worry about incompatibilities with the box anymore...most new games and even quite a few old ones support the vga box. 2d games look horrible except for guilty gear x on a vga box because they are drawn using low resolution sprites, 320*240 and then displaying them at 640*480 on ur computer monitor resulting in horrible pixelation. 3d games are a different story, breathtaking.

 

[Mday]

yeah, i didn't get a vga box 'cuz i mostly play games that are not compatible.

and yes, i have played games via my aiw radeon with the s-video input =D

 

[AUMM]

sounds like im gonna have to pick on up, ooo found one for 13 bux on ebay