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foxhound1022 wrote:Is it worth getting VGA for DC?

I just have mine hooked up through composite.

yes. It looks amazing. Amazing.

The only problem is a handful of games can't be played. The KOF games for instance. Some games can be forced with a boot disc, but not those. But seriously, stuff like CvS look stunning in VGA. I've said that games like that or Sturmwind rival even PS3/360 2D games thru VGA. And when I played Sonic on the Sega Smash Pack it was like seeing the game with new eyes. All these vibrant details I don't feel I saw on my Genesis (thru RF) back in the day.

@Valkyrie - thanks it's an Acer H233H, and I use a Neo-Flex stand to TATE it.

I love my CRT. Use it for everything but PS3/Xbox 360/Wii U.

foxhound1022 wrote:Is it worth getting VGA for DC?

I just have mine hooked up through composite.

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Racket has some VGA cords in the store again and 20% off coupon through Friday.

Yes, I actually bought some the other day and expect them to arrive soon.

I looked, and a lot of my DC-J games say VGA on the back, which I'm assuming means it supports them.

This thread is truth, and one of the main reasons I've been so stoked on getting back into original hardware--thanks to the free CRT my friend gave me. There's just something about the experience of a CRT that you can't get otherwise, HLSL and SweetFX and shaders be damned.

Although I'm not knocking LCD's; I've got an ASUS VH236H on one of those Neo-Flex stands too, which is pretty cool in its own right.

I still prefer the HD CRTs over the new LCDs. They are getting better @ rendering blacks but the color contrast on the HD CRTs is amazing.

Yeah 4:3 SD CRT is the ticket for retro. I rock a 27" RCA Tru Flat.

Valkyrie-Favor wrote: Playing shmups with 3 frames of delay on a badly upscaled image filled with dot crawl is like playing shmups with an Atari 5200 controller. Why would you even do it? Seriously I doubled my score in Eliminate Down. You probably don't TATE your LCD either. I mean, how could you?

Heh, I play shmups on an LED, and I do not TATE.

If you're in the UK, there's this Yahoo Group called Freecycle, my mum got a huge 16:9 CRT wit a VGA input from there for......FREE! People are always giving these things away. If I move back to the UK and get a bigger place I'll be picking up one or two of these.

Just wanted to mention:
For a larger screen size, but still real-time direct image with authentic 240P scanlines on Component video you can get a standard definition, 3xCRT 4x3 rear-projector TV. My Sony 48" still gets a fair amount of use despite having a X-RGB mini and a 60" plasma. The 4x3 image on my Plasma is only around 1" less on the projection TV and the image through a SCART to Component transcoder is almost exactly the same as the 640x480 scanlined image from my XRGB.
The only drawback to these TVs I know of is the side-angle viewing (less than 45° because of the projection media, Blue colors being unfocused (Blue bloom around the white - intentional and unfixable, unless you manually defocus the Red & Green as well), and blooming/oversaturation on bright settings. Still, an awesome gaming display, and SD ones are still available cheap since they're SD (mine was given to me a few years ago for installing a horribly crappy LCD replacement).