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One of my mates has his Gamecube hooked up to his monitor through some sort of contraption. The picture quality is terrible. Fuzzy it is. Is there not some sort of converting a RGB Scart signal to either VGA or DVI so that it doesn't look rubbish?
(For you Americans, SCART is the main way we plug our equipment up, and RGB SCARTS provide the best signal by splitting up the R, the G and inded the B signals. Surely that can't be too far from how a VGA signal works anyway?)
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There is.
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RGB SCART and VGA are similar, but VGA uses RGBHV (separate H- and V-Sync), so conversion between them isn't effortless. Now, Lik-sang sells a bunch of VGA boxes that do just that, but unless your mate has a Cube with digital video out, the image quality will still be mostly shite.
(Also, old-generation consoles shouldn't be hooked up to a monitor ever.)
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His monitor is a fancy LCD Sony one. Will that make a difference (and would plugging it up through the DVI socket be better?)
Ooh, I've only just noticed that digital video out. Exactly what is that used for, anyway? And if the answer is "for plugging up to your monitor, stupid", where can you get leads that use that?
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I like when you talk like Yoda. "Fuzzy it is, see clearly, you will not..."
Why are you trying to play Gamecube games on a monitor instead of a TV?
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I'm not. I have a big TV. But the lad who is only has a monitor in his bedroom and he doesn't want to waste space by putting a TV in there as well.
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So porns not good enough for your uppity friends, eh? They gotta have escapist games as well as escapist sex?
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His monitor is a fancy LCD Sony one. Will that make a difference (and would plugging it up through the DVI socket be better?)
No, because if he's sending a VGA signal to his monitor, then that signal is already being converted internally, so a VGA to DVI connector wouldn't help.
Ooh, I've only just noticed that digital video out. Exactly what is that used for, anyway?
Older Cubes (those produced prior to may 2004) had a digital A/V port for connecting a (HD)TV with a Component or D-Terminal cable so you could play games in 480p mode, but Nintendo thought the added manufacturing costs were too high for the number of people using it, so they "revised" the Cube's design. The greedy dogs.
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I have detailed files. B)
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Isn't that just like when Sony removed that port on the back of the Playstation that was used for nothing apart from that Gameboy emulator?
Is there not a way of somehow using the digital A/V port and the DVI socket to produce visual goodness?
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No. There are, however, mods of the D-Terminal cable around that let you plug one end of them directly into a VGA socket, but regardless, you really, really don't want to feed a 480p signal to an LCD monitor. Tell your mate to get a CRT for that, or he will gouge out his eyeballs.
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So a CRT monitor would actually be better than an LCD one in this case?
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Unless, say, the LCD monitor has a vertical resolution of 480. In which case your friend just needs to spend some money on real displays. Fixed resolutions suck when it comes to that.
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