VGA cable pics and games

[racketboy]

Hi!

I've been thinking about hooking up my second Dreamcast to my old CRT for quite a while now as I really enjoy playing all those new (well, more or less) Naomi shooters in TATE mode but don't want to regularly have to put my TV on its side. However, the original Dreamcast VGA cable is rather hard to get and I was sceptical about buying a 3rd party product.
That was until I searched eBay for "dreamcast vga" and noticed that one of the 3rd party adaptors is being sold by someone who calls himself "racketboy". I immediately thought: "Hey! That guy has a website with great articles about retro gaming!". Having read some articles on racketboy.com a while ago I knew that racketboy is quite a Dreamcast lover and thus I didn't hesitate to order one of his VGA cables right away.
I don't think I will use the adaptor for anything else than highly detailed 3D games such as Ikaruga or Under Defeat as I really think that both, 2D games and low detailed 3D games, look way better when displayed on a TV or even in 240p. I still can't wait for it to arrive! I'll try to provide you with some pictures of my final setup once everything is... well... set up.

Yeah, welcome aboard. It's cool to know you actually recongnized the name
i've been selling the cables on eBay for a couple months and its been working pretty well.
Make youself at home!

[Indy_aka_Rex]

Well, since I finally got my new DC, I figure I'd give it a test with the VGA cables I got.

I tested a few games, namely: Seaman, Sword of the Berserk, Gundam Side Story, Blue Stinger and PowerStone.

My results with Sword of the Berserk were... good, the game's a bit on the blocky side, not to mention jaggy and... very brown.

Seaman looked fantastic, but I didn't fool with it for much.

Gundam SS: 0079 was crisp, clean and clear - though like Berserk, it brings up the flaws of the graphics engine (blocky, textures aren't that great).

Blue Stinger, despite being a day-one DC title looks surprisingly great.

PowerStone... ahh again, a day one game... I'll show the results:






My monitor isn't the best out there, but the image quality is pretty good. PowerStone looks so awesome...

BTW, I also tried JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which specifically states ON the case that it supports the VGA cord - but I got a "Cable not supported" error.

[Mozgus]

BTW, I also tried JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which specifically states ON the case that it supports the VGA cord - but I got a "Cable not supported" error.

Strange that the case says it works. I've never gotten JoJo to work in VGA. Even if you use the trick to force it, the game stays in the upper half of the display, very squished.

[Indy_aka_Rex]

BTW, I also tried JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which specifically states ON the case that it supports the VGA cord - but I got a "Cable not supported" error.

Strange that the case says it works. I've never gotten JoJo to work in VGA. Even if you use the trick to force it, the game stays in the upper half of the display, very squished.

It does have the vga-cord label on the back... so it's odd that it doesn't.