What it's worth

[cube_b3]

Well I am not selling anything, I found this Dreamcast stuff in a small town, up north.



This is a VGA Box, I know it enhances the resolution of games, basically Hi-Def or something... if anyone can tell me more about this device and its price, it would be quite useful.

The guy asked about 8 Euro's for this...



This is an SRC Light Gun is thing any good even.
The Guy asked 8 Euro's for this...


Just a Dreamcast Joystick.
He asked for 6 Euro's


What console is this? How much is it worth? 3D0?

Sega Saturn


Okay, when ever I go up north I see the old Dreamcast stuff. The hop keepers invested on the Dreamcast like crazy and they ended up with a lot of Dead stock, I've shown some stuff that I am intrested in.

P.S None of these things are sealed, but they are all brand new.

[Christuserloeser]

What it's worth

- seriously though, the prices seem okay to me.

[TheRedFox]

dude! Panasonic 3DO! i have one of those somewhere. i also have tons of games.

[gRiMgRaVy014]

I'd pick up that 3DO.

[cube_b3]

If this is what a VGA Box does, I think the orignal picture looked much better. The larger one looks weird!

[|darc|]

uh, that's not at all what a VGA box does...

[cube_b3]

then?

[Christuserloeser]

Hm, you seem to confuse the Dreamcast's VGA mode with the PC VGA standard (640×480 in 16 colors, 320×200 in 256 color).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Torak.gif

A comparison of VGA graphics modes, using a photo of Torak from the UK Wolf Conservation Trust. The largest portion is a 640x480x16 colour dithered image using the Windows VGA palette. The other portion is the same image using 320x200x256 colour mode.

All a VGA box does is to force the Dreamcast to display the picture in progressive scan at 640x480p60 in RGBHV - no matter what resolution the original game is, nor how many colors it displays.

If you have a CRT PC monitor, you could try to set it to 640x480 to see how it looks like. (This doesn't really work on LCD monitors though, sorry)



Edit - Here's DOA2 as an example:

via Composite on an NTSC TV


The game on your VGA monitor:


Although, this screenshot isn't 100% accurate as it's lossy JPG which makes it appear washed out and somewhat blurry in comparision to the real hardware. (Take a close look at the text in the window frame.)