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marurun wrote:I lot of folks love to harp on the ease of pirating, but I really don't think that was significant. It was still kinda complicated, and the good self-booting releases didn't come out until Sega was already on the slide.

I agree with this. Almost all other consoles can be pirated/modded, and even today PC games but GOG and Steam are doing very well.

RCBH928 wrote:

marurun wrote:I lot of folks love to harp on the ease of pirating, but I really don't think that was significant. It was still kinda complicated, and the good self-booting releases didn't come out until Sega was already on the slide.

I agree with this. Almost all other consoles can be pirated/modded, and even today PC games but GOG and Steam are doing very well.

Same here. I was pretty into my Dreamcast at the time and I remember seeing Bleem! at the store and thinking "That's interesting." Never once thought to go crazy burning games.

Plus I wouldn't say I'm pro-pirating, but most of the time people are just pirating stuff they'd never buy anyways. My buddy has a ton of burned DC games. Believe me, he wasn't paying for them brand new.

My dreamcast gaming has never been better! I've been picking up some classics via trades recently including Echo, Daytona USA, Quake 3, Virtua Tennis, etc. Along with a new VGA to HDMI box, I've been really enjoying these new games on the big screen.

Question: I recently got the Framemeister. Is there any reason I should consider using the HDMI inputs on it to pass the DC signal though it? If so are there any particular settings or results I should be using/going after?

8bit wrote:My dreamcast gaming has never been better! I've been picking up some classics via trades recently including Echo, Daytona USA, Quake 3, Virtua Tennis, etc. Along with a new VGA to HDMI box, I've been really enjoying these new games on the big screen.

Question: I recently got the Framemeister. Is there any reason I should consider using the HDMI inputs on it to pass the DC signal though it? If so are there any particular settings or results I should be using/going after?

How is the quality on that VGA to HDMI? is it better than the straight VGA? My TV has a VGA input and my DC looks good throught it, but I would be curious to see if it could be improved. Can you tell me what model the converter is?

jay_red wrote:

8bit wrote:My dreamcast gaming has never been better! I've been picking up some classics via trades recently including Echo, Daytona USA, Quake 3, Virtua Tennis, etc. Along with a new VGA to HDMI box, I've been really enjoying these new games on the big screen.

Question: I recently got the Framemeister. Is there any reason I should consider using the HDMI inputs on it to pass the DC signal though it? If so are there any particular settings or results I should be using/going after?

How is the quality on that VGA to HDMI? is it better than the straight VGA? My TV has a VGA input and my DC looks good throught it, but I would be curious to see if it could be improved. Can you tell me what model the converter is?

I dont think it does anything special for the picture over just VGA but it does convert it to 1080p. However, if had to guess its probably introducing more noise or artifacts instead of cleaning them up, but again I have no way to know for sure as my TV doesn't have a VGA port.

Here is the box I bought from Amazon though. Check it out!

I got a VGA to HDMI converter box from MCM Electronics, but it doesn't also upscale. I'm letting my TV upscale on the one HDMI port that will accept more than just 1080 and 720 input and it seems to do OK.

marurun wrote:I got a VGA to HDMI converter box from MCM Electronics, but it doesn't also upscale. I'm letting my TV upscale on the one HDMI port that will accept more than just 1080 and 720 input and it seems to do OK.

Is there an option for upscaling in the TV you can turn on/off, or its just baked in the tv?

RCBH928 wrote:

marurun wrote:I got a VGA to HDMI converter box from MCM Electronics, but it doesn't also upscale. I'm letting my TV upscale on the one HDMI port that will accept more than just 1080 and 720 input and it seems to do OK.

Is there an option for upscaling in the TV you can turn on/off, or its just baked in the tv?

Well, LCD TVs have to do some kind of scaling for any video signal that doesn't match its native resolution. Otherwise they would have to display everything smaller than max res with a big black border, or for larger content, just show the portion that fits on the screen. So scalers are essential. So yeah, they're baked into any LCD display.

Does this seem sketch to you all? I know GBA seems to be reproduced frequently and SNES has reproductions. Check this auction though:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... ID=EBAY-US
Ships from Korea, NTSC version, brand new, heVily discounted.

Better get those collections done before the market gets flooded.

Blu wrote:Does this seem sketch to you all? I know GBA seems to be reproduced frequently and SNES has reproductions. Check this auction though:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... ID=EBAY-US
Ships from Korea, NTSC version, brand new, heVily discounted.

Better get those collections done before the market gets flooded.

Not really enough info there for me to pass judgement but I'd be weary.