Post#22 » Wed Oct 19, 2016 12:34 am
Glad to see your results. Nice troubleshooting and details communicating your findings.
Well, I posted elsewhere about my adventures in VGA. I have used 5 different TV displays with three different Dreamcast VGA items. The RetroBit VGA/AV box just "worked" with no odd affects. The second was the VGA adapter (with the small blue 3/4 VMU size chassis with the 3.5mm audio output jack and short DC AV male connector & Sub-D female pigtails) worked but it was way off-center on the Haier TV Display (at the time I used the Altinex VGA switcher which fixed the centering problem). Lastly, the TOMEE was an adventure as it worked in three of the five TV displays perfectly. To get it to work correctly on the other two, I had an old Altinex Professional 2x1:2 2-input VGA switcher with two VGA pass-thru Sub-D connectors but a 5-BNC switched output (in which I use a 5-BNC to VGA/Sub-D adapter). This works on both TV displays that previously did not work but I get the "screen door" affect one of the two. To note,both only show as 4:3, I loose about 2% of the picture on each side which did not affect game play. I also looped that to my Extron 4x1 VGA switcher to see the results on both displays at the same time in which the other display shows the same Shenmue 2 game as 16:10. Interesting how this works. My next move was to get a VGA to HDMI converter but my spare old-world tech
Also to note, years ago I bought a VGA cable that only had the DC AV connector end in tact (prior to the TOMEE VGA cable resurgence). I downloaded info and gave it to my service technician to build a VGA box. He took a spare 1-gang wall box and I had our wall plate fabricator to make a metal plate for VGA/Audio output. This works on all five displays...no negative results, all good (The Sanyo 25" really looks good with this running UT).
Regards,
Bob Dobbs