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What's the best way of using VGA through the Dreamcast?

There's a load of cheap vga cables of ebay which I assume aren't very good, unless someone who knows better can say otherwise.

There are some more expensive cables, but I'm not sure where a good place to buy these are, want somewhere where I know they will be better than the cheap version.

Then there are the boxes, mostly third party because the official ones are just a stupid price now. I know the advantage of these is you can switch between inputs, but I think I'm right in saying they won't look or perform any better.

>> No.4156685

>>4156676
>There's a load of cheap vga cables of ebay which I assume aren't very good
they are good. Unless you want more connections in handfull you should just get a one of those cheap ones

>> No.4156873

Behar Bros Toro

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>> No.4156885

>>4156873
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>> No.4156886

There are VGA cables and VGA boxes. The cables output everything in VGA mode so games that don't support it won't work, while the boxes will typically have a switch that will allow you run games in non-VGA mode, usually via composite.

The Beharbros boxes are afaik the only ones that can boot in non-VGA mode but still output RGB through VGA.

>> No.4157497

>>4156676
There's literally no point to using VGA on a Dreamcast. The majority of pro monitors you find can't display at 480p and a consumer set at that resolution will look just as good as a PVM using 240p RGB. Unless you have a Trinitron computer monitor, but even then it's just a handful of games that use it.
Basically, get a fucking RGB SCART cable.

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4157507

Also to note there's only like 6 games that don't work with VGA

KOF99 and Plasma Blade spring to mind. Shame I really like those ones too

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4157584

>>4157497

>> No.4157867

>>4156676
All the standard boxes do it let you switch.

>>4157497
It's like you're actually trying to be 100% wrong about everything.

>> No.4157884

I just settled for s-video back in the day. The DC already has a really clean signal through composite, too.

>> No.4158036

>>4156676
https://www.beharbros.com/akura

:)

>> No.4158114

>>4157497
Get a vga to hdmi box

>> No.4158124

>>4157884
Dreamcast s-video cables are all garbage that will give you a checkerboard pattern.

>>4158036
>$85
Lol just buy the $7 retrobit cable, if you are going to be downloading .cdi rips then the non-vga games will already be patched to support it.

>> No.4158139

>>4157507
There's also Bangai-O that doesn't work and I believe Gunbird 2 is another one. Also the FMVs don't display in Dino Crisis.

>> No.4158290

>>4158124
>le ebik checkerboard pattern maymay

>> No.4160471

>No VGA boxes are going for less than $40; some as high as 100 and they aren't even the Akura
What the fuck? I would swear you could still find them for around 20-30 as recently as a few years ago. My ancient Blaze box is beat to shit and dying. Guess I'll try one of the cables.