Submitted 3 days ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to retrogaming@lemmy.world
Hey y’all! Absolutely loving my dreamcast. I actually got several of them now for repair. Definitely my favorite system.
My question is, what video cable would you go with for it? Mainly I use it on a CRT with component and s video inputs but it only came with a composite cable. Should I shell out for component or is s video fine ?
I have a retro tink 2x on my crappy insignia as well, but I’ll mainly use the DC on CRT.
I haven’t played the Dreamcast since they were an active system, but if you already have the cables to get S-video into your monitor you’re probably fine with that. Technically component would be better, but I don’t know how noticeable the improvement would be. The main improvement would be in color, but S-video wasn’t bad. I would have to doublecheck if S-video supports progressive scan, but if you’re at SD resolution on a CRT I wouldn’t expect you to notice a difference between interlaced or progressive video. Interlaced video was made for CRTs and wasn’t actually bad there, never mind how we appreciate and prefer progressive video on modern flat screens.
The VGA adapter is great
Then you can go vga to hdmi, but those overheat for gaming.
I don’t have anything with VGA anymore unfortunately
DigDoug@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If your CRT supports 480p, then component is probably 99.99% of the way there. Colours are technically more accurate with RGB (whether through SCART or VGA), but the difference between TV sets is going to be far bigger than the difference between component and RGB.