Classic Consoles on VGA Monitors

Your average CRT VGA monitor is a higher quality device than your average consumer-grade CRT, but most aren’t compatible with classic game consoles. These quality monitors can still be found for really cheap, so this video will show you how to use a few devices to allow compatibility...and make them look exactly like a high quality RGB monitor!

00:00 Intro
01:19 Setup
01:43 Original 240p
01:59 OSSC
03:37 RetroTINK
04:01 GBS Control
04:37 VGA Monitor
06:32 Composite Video
06:53 N64
07:17 480i deinterlacing
07:45 Retro Scaler A1
09:11 SMS 3D
09:29 Light Guns
10:20 Fast Resolution Switching
10:42 Other Uses / Conclusion

#rgbonvga, #240ponVGA, #retrotink, #ossc, #retroscalera1

[siskavard]

All the PVM & BVMs are so rare because everyone that actually owns them OWNS LIKE 57 OF THEM

[abbafanatico]

This is the video the community needed.
PC CRTs are criminally underrated.

[danmons]

Great to see this video up! I've been recommending scalers+VGA for years, and more recently as a perfect output for MiSTer (enable doublescan and off you go with perfect refresh rates and 2:1 scaling). Razor sharp images, amazing colour, no lag. Can't argue with that.

[doltBmB]

line doubling is the traditional compatibility mode for VGA monitors to older signals that are below the minimum scanrate of VGA, so e.g. 200p becomes 400p

[KuronoNeko]

Back in the day, I used to hook up my SNES, Genesis, and Saturn to my VGA monitor with the XRGB2. Fell into the RGB hole then and never left. Glad there are so many great new options now.

[EvilCoffeeInc]

Super glad you're covering the GBS-Control project. I picked one up a few months ago and I'm super excited to put it together!

[DragonNova]

I'm using a MiSTer FPGA with a VGA CRT monitor and I'm loving it :)

[Supervocetubeia]

I've been using CRT VGA monitors for classic consoles since February this year. I use the OSSC and an HDMI to VGA adapter. Looks beautiful.

[ZombiePhoenix]

I have a CRT monitor dedicated for Retro gaming. Its made all of my retro consoles look fantastic.

[MOS]

Love the dot mask PC monitor look. IMO it's nicer to look at than an aperture grille.

[reallokndo]

I bought a 1995 view sonic 15s recently and long story short the guy who sold it to me told me it was his moms who recently passed at 102 years old, 1 owner and shed play solitaire 4 hours a day

[Ringworm]

I still really wish VGA monitors could handle 15khz and component signals since it would make finding an all in one solution for CRT gaming way easier than looking for rare 480P RGB monitors or using converters.

[johndee]

Thank you for making this video. Here in So Cal good 21” VGA CRT monitors are not that easy to come by anymore.

[greygoose]

I have 2 VGA CRT monitors for my retro computers and I'm glad I can now hook up my old game systems to them.

[memoran]

Great video! I picked up a Dell 20” VGA CRT last week and I’m loving it with MiSTer. My other CRTs bother my wife, she can’t put up with the high pitched squeal, but she doesn’t hear anything with the VGA one. Now I can play on a CRT in the living room with her.

[Impossiblah]

I believe you are correct. The NES Zapper is just a much more primitive lightgun. It only looks for a flash and the NES only cares about the timing. Any lightgun with an aiming reticle is using the video signal's analog timing itself-that's why they have to piggyback off compositive/luma/whatever line sync is on-to figure out where on the screen it is being pointed. The very nature of the deinterlacing being done is going to make that not work.

[Sayajiin]

Such a great video, I can tell you put a lot of work into it. I was looking for a VGA monitor and the video is super helpful and gives a good insight in what they can do. Thanks Bob!!

[GenesHand]

So with the GBS-Control and a decent CRT monitor you can have a really similar image to a pvm for a fraction of the price, i'm glad to know that. The days about dreaming of getting a framemeister are gone lol. Can't wait for the GBS video!

[seadx]

Hello Bob, could you PLEASE make a video about the Wii in both 4:3 and 16:9?

[godashram]

I've been telling people for years that a good quality vga monitor can still beat out many LCD monitors out there.
While not currently in use, 1 have 2 21" HP Trinitron CRTs (yes, HP screen, says trititron on the chasis) for the day that I decide to move them over to the game room for more than just the Dreamcast. Also have 2 component to VGA adapters (a Vdigi and a Key Digital) which were highly regarded back in the early 2000s