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Just a quick update. I bought the Startech MXT101MMHQ10 VGA cable and it works with no problems. Surprisingly, none of the pins grounded out to the shroud, and after testing that I just plugged it in and it worked, so not sure if pins 4 and 11 are grounded or not, but it works, so who cares?

I also burned a copy of 240p Test Suite and used that to help dial in the picture.

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).

I can personally confirm the following LCD TV's:

Samsung - LE26R41BX

Sony - KDL-32D3000

Sony - KDL-40W5500

Samsung - SyncMaster 940MW

Samsung - SyncMaster 225MW


LCD Monitor confirmed as working
Dell-UltraSharp 2007FPb

This is a great monitor as it is a 4:3 ratio and has loads of connections and a great picture.




LCD TV Confirmed not working

Sony - KLV-S19A10U

This needs a little clarifying. It does actually work but the display cuts both sides of the picture (no picture settings or aspect ratio will fix it) essentially it feels like it picks up and tries to display as 720 wide or something

If you use a scaler like a Gefen VGA to DVI Plus you can get it to work

LCD TV - LG 32LH20 Works

LED Monitor - ASUS VE278Q Works

LCD TV - Samsung LN37A550 Does Not Work

Xiden wrote: LCD TV - Samsung LN37A550 Does Not Work

What's your specific setup?

Benq G2320HDB Monitor - Works
LCD LG 32LD420 TV - Doesn't work

RoundCircleS wrote:

Xiden wrote: LCD TV - Samsung LN37A550 Does Not Work

What's your specific setup?

Its a tomee vga adapter to tv. Also tried a retrobit vga too

Xiden wrote:

RoundCircleS wrote:

Xiden wrote: LCD TV - Samsung LN37A550 Does Not Work

What's your specific setup?

Its a tomee vga adapter to tv. Also tried a retrobit vga too

My Sammy would not recognize the Tomee cable until I put a VGA monitor cable inline. Check my posts above.

One more to add - the UK exclusive LCD TV with PS2 built in

Sony Bravia - KDL22PX300

The picture on this is fantastic. In normal picture life it maps pixel to pixel so the DReamcast runs in a window of 640 X 480

However go into Picture/display/Screen settings and select Normal 1 for full screen 4:3 aspect ratio picture.

Lovely picture and great to run the Dreamcast one TV with a built in PS2 to get a small measure of revenge on Sony

Xiden wrote:

RoundCircleS wrote:

Xiden wrote: LCD TV - Samsung LN37A550 Does Not Work

What's your specific setup?

Its a tomee vga adapter to tv. Also tried a retrobit vga too

Did you have a chance to try a monitor cable in-line with each of those two VGA cables? Interested to hear back if it works for you, and what kind of picture-quality you get.