Post everytime you get ANYTHING retro. We want to know (^v^)

[J0e Musashi]

Lol..

[Duddyroar]

Yup, both myself and Seany are enjoying some R-Type-related goodness at the moment. My main reason for getting hold of it again was MikeB's excellent 'making of' feature in Retro Gamer.

[Yakumo]

Got my XRGB2- Plus the other day.


And today I managed to pick up RGB 21 pin cables for the Saturn and Super Famicom. These things are not easy to find unlike in PAL land (you lucky sods!)


So I hooked up my Saturn to the XRGB2 then connected that to my Mitsubishi TFT. Looks great! Still not as great as a true RGB CRT but far better than S-Video on my HD CRT TV.

Low resolution in action. Check out those cool scan lines :thumbsup:


And high resolution in action thanks to Dead or Alive.


Yakumo

[noobish hat]

oh man, the amount of time I spent trying to win one of those mushroom things from ufo catchers in Akihabara. My friend actually showed me the right way to play them and I won about 25 plushes from the game centres in Ikebukuro, but I could never catch anything that was in a box.

[mekanor]

Yakumo, how well does the xrbg2+ work and how much did it set you back?

[Yakumo]

Yakumo, how well does the xrbg2+ work and how much did it set you back?

Well it all depends upon your display. There are some that won't work with it and others that do but not great. I have one of the Mitsubishi Diamondcrysta range of TFTs that falls in to the "Works but has issues" section. You see, on my TFT it has a problem getting a full screen sync on the up-scaled RGB signal. So there's always one part of the screen that will shimmer (sort of like a tinny wave effect) but luckily you can choose where this is. I have it down in the bottom right corner. I don't even notice it. There's a guide on the XRGB-2 Plus official homepage about what TFT / LCD screens have issues.

As for total quality, well I'm very happy. Now playing my SFC on it through 21 pin RGB (Scart) and it looks very nice. You can fiddle with many options on the XRGB to get the image you want. You can even select how much you want the scan lines to appear! There's 5 settings being Off, 1 (25&#37 2 (50%) 3 (75%) 4 (100%). I use the 2nd setting at 50%. Looks great.

Here's a few shots of my SFC running on it. The first shows Macross with 50% scan lines on. The second image shows the same screen but with 100% scan lines.





and just for the sake of it, here's a nice one of the option screen that shows how clean the image is.



This XRGB2 plus set me back 9500 yen but it is missing the remote control and all the cables. Normally a complete boxed one goes for about 18'000 yen or 25'000 direct from the manufacture.

Yakumo

[Hohum]

That box looks like the perfect device for playing older consoles on LCD tv sets (well, ones that have a VGA port anyway). Will have to check it out if/when I ever bother to buy a new tv to replace my 8 year old CRT.

One question though, I'm guessing the RGB 'scart' port doesn't work with the European standard? (I read somewhere that although the cables look the same, they're wired differently internally... allegedly.)

[DaRockwilder1]

Bought all this within the last month.



A mixture of fighting, shooting and Limited Edition Jap Saturn and DC games.





Rubbish UK DC games to try and complete the UK collection.

[noobish hat]

gettin' your sega on. nice.

[DaRockwilder1]

Yep I'm a bit of a Sega fan.

[jamesy]

Just curious how many you got left to go for a complete UK collection?

[DaRockwilder1]

Just curious how many you got left to go for a complete UK collection?

55 Saturn and 54 DC games left.

I have most of the rare and good games now it's just a matter of buying the remaining rubbish.

[cutmymilk]

Aaaah sounds like fun! What do you need? I have quite a few but I don't consider any rubbish - maybe you do!

[Yakumo]

One question though, I'm guessing the RGB 'scart' port doesn't work with the European standard? (I read somewhere that although the cables look the same, they're wired differently internally... allegedly.)

That's right. They use the Japanese version of "scart" cable so you'll need to either buy Japanese RGB cables to work with it (NOT EASY!) or re-wire the PAL ones. I'm now on the look out for a Mega Drive RGB cable however in Japan Sega never officially released one even though the Mega Drive gives out RGB as standard. So I'm searching for a home made one. Just a shame a PAL one won't work.

@DaRockwilder1, Man, that's a nice Haul you got there! Some great titles in the Japanese Saturn and DC games. Just a shame that every one of the PAL Saturn titles is turd apart from Darius 2. Still, over all a very good haul !!

Yakumo

[SH4R4KU]

@DaRockwilder1, where'd you get the Japanese DC stuff from, out of interest? Third party importer or a friend? I am trying to do a DC collection. I should probably go for PAL being as I already have just under 100 games for it. I just love getting Japanese games in the post