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Twillinx - Jan 18, 2006
  Twillinx Jan 18, 2006
Recently I've been thinking about getting me a VGA-box, seems to be a jungle out there. And I pretty much heard some bad things about all of which I've checked out. My main reason is that my TV can't handle the resolutions of either the Saturn Hi-res or just about any DC game (the screen flickers). So it's not at all unplayable but I'd rather have it go away. And I also like the idea of making a corner in my livingroom just for gaming... ehh, and I already got a monitor to spare.

I just don't want to end up with a pic worse than on my TV (using RGB or S-Video). I'm hoping some of you are using a VGA-box for your videogaming and could give me some info on this one.

 lordofduct Jan 18, 2006
Well as your picture won't be flickering anymore it will probably look better.

Aren't there only a limited amount of DC games that support VGA boxes?

 Twillinx Jan 18, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by lordofduct@Wed, 2006-01-18 @ 10:27 PM



Well as your picture won't be flickering anymore it will probably look better.



Aren't there only a limited amount of DC games that support VGA boxes?




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Yeah, but I've been hearing about colorbleeding, gammaproblems etc etc...

It has to support it? S-Video will go in to this box and out a VGA-cable... and that won't work with all games? I can't even grasp what happens to the signal inside the mystery box, but I really had hoped not to limit the ammount of games I could play.

Hopefully I missunderstood... and games that support it can play in even higher resolutions. *hoping*

 Merick Jan 18, 2006
If you do a search for "vga box" on google, you can find a number of sites that sell 3rd party converters. Since most these can use s-video or standard av input, they should be usable with any of your consoles.

 emazur Jan 19, 2006
The XRGB-2 has always had an excellent reputation. for a review go here:

http://atarilabs.com/meat/2001/0120_XRGB2.shtml...

but there's plenty more info to be had on google

 it290 Jan 19, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			It has to support it? S-Video will go in to this box and out a VGA-cable... and that won't work with all games? I can't even grasp what happens to the signal inside the mystery box, but I really had hoped not to limit the ammount of games I could play. sad.gif


The DC VGA box actually outputs a real VGA signal, as opposed to generic boxes which take a 15khz signal and scandouble it to work on a VGA monitor. If you want something like that with good quality, the X-RGB is probably your best bet, although I've heard the Hori converters aren't too bad either (they're a lot cheaper). BTW, the XRGB-3 is out now, and has a couple new features, so you may want to look into that.

 Slipknotted Jan 19, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by it290@Thu, 2006-01-19 @ 02:55 PM



The DC VGA box actually outputs a real VGA signal, as opposed to generic boxes which take a 15khz signal and scandouble it to work on a VGA monitor.  If you want something like that with good quality, the X-RGB is probably your best bet, although I've heard the Hori converters aren't too bad either (they're a lot cheaper). BTW, the XRGB-3 is out now, and has a couple new features, so you may want to look into that.




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What website do you go to, to buy that it290? I googled XRGB-3 and it came up with a ton of forum talk. Only real link I saw was to lik-sang and they are only advertising the XRGB-2 and are out of stock.

Tried lookin for one on ebay and no luck there either.

 it290 Jan 19, 2006
Actually I was mistaken, it has not been released yet. I saw the preview for it on Micomsoft's website and thought it had already been released. However, I imagine it should be out within a month or two.