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muffinman943 - Sep 27, 2003

		muffinman943	Sep 27, 2003
		can u use it with the monitor itself? or does the monitor have 2 be connected to the pc

		sizone	Sep 27, 2003
		Your monitor plugs into the vga box. if you want to hook the monitor back up to your p.c. you gotta disconnect it from vga box and hook it back up to video card. it's actually a real pain if you only have one monitor. i was thinking of building a 2 port switch then went in favor of lazyness and dug an old 15' out of my garage and hooked that up instead. btw THE VGA BOX IS WORTH IT'S WEIGHT IN GOLD and i highly recomened that everyone who still owns a dreamcast purchase one immediately.

		stack99	Sep 29, 2003
		I have to agree with you Size, I recently picked up one up and it is sooooo sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet,, I mean it is nice to play the dreamcast on a tft flat screen, the picture on my monitor is crisp, and it is just plain awesome.... I highly recommend one of these to anyone as well.

		mal	Sep 29, 2003
		:agree I got one a couple of weeks ago and it's just great.

		keropi	Oct 27, 2003
		yeah, they kick ass, too bad that it isn't supported by all games...

		stack99	Oct 27, 2003
		yeah it is a shame, you would figure that all the games would support it, but still it is sick no matter how many games are supported

		Des-ROW	Oct 27, 2003
		Playing Guilty Gear X with a VGA Box looks simply amazing.

		stack99	Oct 27, 2003
		hell yeah..... I played unreal tournament (on vga box), still beautifull........

		MasterAkumaMatata	Oct 28, 2003
		Grandia II on VGA display, especially when you visit the towns. :yum     Originally posted by muffinman943@Sep 27, 2003 @ 12:48 PM can u use it with the monitor itself? or does the monitor have 2 be connected to the pc Some monitors (like my 21" Sony Trinitron) have two VGA inputs.

		stack99	Oct 28, 2003
		nice, thats a cool feature, soon all monitors will have that...lol

		MasterAkumaMatata	Oct 28, 2003
		Originally posted by stack99@Oct 28, 2003 @ 10:24 PM nice, thats a cool feature, soon all monitors will have that...lol And when they do, mine will automatically grow another one. :devil :lol:

		Darklegion	Nov 3, 2003
		The first and still only console to officially have vga output...much better than using a crappy composite to vga converter,or overpriced upscan converter.Too bad my monitor is a small old beast,or I'd probably use it. These things are very cheap and easy to make BTW,in fact the official thing is really just a cable with some simple circuitry for switching between normal output and vga and to prevent it from running vga on a tv and vise versa.This can be done with a cheapo IC anyway,if you require that.Do a search if you want schematics,tutorial etc

		antime	Nov 3, 2003
		Originally posted by Darklegion@Nov 3, 2003 @ 02:47 PM The first and still only console to officially have vga output... ...was not the Dreamcast. For instance the Pippin which was recently discussed in the general forum has a VGA port in the rear.

		Scared0o0Rabbit	Nov 3, 2003
		dc does officially support it. The vga breakout box was necessary so that you'd have something to plug your speakers into, and to keep teh size of the unit down. It's also a switch to let hte system know it's in vga mode.

		racketboy	Nov 3, 2003
		Originally posted by antime+Nov 3, 2003 @ 12:09 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(antime @ Nov 3, 2003 @ 12:09 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteBegin-Darklegion@Nov 3, 2003 @ 02:47 PM The first and still only console to officially have vga output... ...was not the Dreamcast. For instance the Pippin which was recently discussed in the general forum has a VGA port in the rear. [/b][/quote] wow -- talk about ahead of it's time.

		SEGAFan 3000DC	Nov 16, 2003
		does it matter which brand you use, is the SEGA brand best etc. I still need to get one

		gameboy900	Nov 16, 2003
		Nope. It's basically just a single common chip with connectors attached to it. They all will give you the same quality output. (Unless of course you're one of those people who thinks spending more money for a single Monster cable is worth the "improvement" a cable 1/6th it's cost could have done the job for.) The one thing that you do want to look out for (and depending on how important it is to you) is that some VGA boxes have a passthrough connector. This just means that you don't need to unplug your monitor from the PC and plug it into the VGA box each time you want to switch. With a passthrough the VGA box is connected to the PC and the monitor to it. When the DC is off the PC gets shown but when you turn it on it takes over the monitor.

		Alexvrb	Nov 16, 2003
		Originally posted by MasterAkumaMatata@Oct 28, 2003 @ 07:22 AM Grandia II on VGA display, especially when you visit the towns. :yum Hell yes.