Submitted 1 day ago by macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Picked up a Hyperkin Dreamcast cable that outputs via HDMI. I tried it out and it’s displaying in this tiny box on my TV. The box on the cable has no settings and the TV is a 1080 Sony Bravia.
I’m not sure what options I have aside from stretching the image via the TV settings but if anyone can assist, it would be appreciated. Thanks.
480i/480p is 1/4 of 1080p so that seems accurate to me.
Dreamcast is the purple square in the upper right:
Appreciate the graphic! I’m definitely going to need to look into an upscaler sometime in the near future.
Guessing that hyperkin thing isn’t scaling the image to fill the screen. Does it have any instructions for scaling the image up at all? I would assume it should be scaling the image. It makes no sense to be outputting 480i/p through HDMI.
No instructions at all. I just tinkered with my tv and the only “solution” is to have the DC in Full mode. I can live with that but it’s far from ideal. I would’ve liked something that scaled up.
Run it through an upscaler. www.retrorgb.com/upscalers.html
TVs didn’t used to be that big, so your Dreamcast is pushing the biggest size available at that time.
Nah, I’m just kidding.
It is essentially what is going on.
Buy a CRT
Don’t worry. It’s bigger on the inside… 🟦
Looks like it’s outputting at the original Dreamcast resolution. I think you’d need an upscaler if you don’t want to have to rely on the TV’s picture settings. It may also be worth seeing if you can lower the display resolution to 480p on that input.
Gonna check the tv settings and see. Thanks.
Tv in Full mode is my only solution. Guess I’ll have to shop for an upscaler at some point.
I’ve heard people say good things about Retrotink
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
What was your input situation before?
Dreamcast outputs at 480i/p which looks about that size on a 1080 display. I think your TV is running in just-scan display mode which is just displaying what it gets pixel for pixel. I’m guessing whatever you used for input before made the TV auto scale itself, but now it’s not on HDMI.
Change the TV to fill and live with it.
macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I was using an RCA cable output prior to this. It worked great, though was lower quality of an image than I would’ve liked.
I’ll have to check the display mode on the tv and see if any other options exist. I did play it in Fill mode which kept the 4:3 resolution but I feel like that sorta defeats the purpose of using hdmi.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Well no? You are getting a digital signal which will be MUCH clearer than analog RCA… Upscaling / fill mode is the Only way to make it bigger.
db2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If your game isn’t 16:9 then your video won’t be. Nothing about HDMI means you’re automatically going to get high def widescreen.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
HDMI doesn’t automatically mean good resolution. The Dreamcast only outputs 480p. That’s regardless of what you’re using to plug it in. The TV was likely automatically scaling the RCA signal, but isn’t scaling the HDMI.