Any way to make the Sega CDX look better on an LCD monitor..

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Re: Any way to make the Sega CDX look better on an LCD monitor..

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The XRGB-3 is a dedicated upscaler and "CRT look" emulator that can render scanlines on non-CRT displays. It handles 240p better than far more expensive units. And, yes, it surpasses SCART to component/YUV. :lol: Modern displays render 240p signals (anything under 480i, really) terribly.

That game is Panzer Zwei running on Saturn -- there's no VGA. Although, the Dreamcast looks far better on *my* display when it's routed through the XRGB. The VGA input doesn't like a direct DC signal for some reason. see http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/ for more on the XRGB and upscalers in general.
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Re: Any way to make the Sega CDX look better on an LCD monitor..

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I have noticed on the Retro consoles (with their lower resolutions) do look better on a CRT upscaled. LCDs tend to display dot crawl on those same lower resolutions upscaled. I did a comparison at my signature link with various other ideals that might help.

As Hobie-wan mentioned going from Composite to S-Video mod will help.
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Re: Any way to make the Sega CDX look better on an LCD monitor..

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SGGG2 wrote: That game is Panzer Zwei running on Saturn -- there's no VGA. Although, the Dreamcast looks far better on *my* display when it's routed through the XRGB. The VGA input doesn't like a direct DC signal for some reason. see http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/ for more on the XRGB and upscalers in general.
OK, so you are referring to VGA using the Dreamcast, then...
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Re: Any way to make the Sega CDX look better on an LCD monitor..

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CRTGAMER wrote:I have noticed on the Retro consoles (with their lower resolutions) do look better on a CRT upscaled. LCDs tend to display dot crawl on those same lower resolutions upscaled. I did a comparison at my signature link with various other ideals that might help.

As Hobie-wan mentioned going from Composite to S-Video mod will help.
Thats awesome man thanks for the info/link.

Well I'll fire up the VGA box once I get to my DC...having too much fun with the CDX and Saturn at the moment..it's like a new system with the SCART>YUV connects
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