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Step 10The moment of truth...
Sweet, if you did everything correctly, you should be seeing video with all 3 colour channels. The first time I started mine up, it was missing the green channel. No problem, I just had neglected to cut some copper trace on the stripboard, and the green was shorting out on the blue capacitor. Whoops.
If it doesn't work, turn it off, flip the switch and try again. If it still doesn't work, a wire's probalby loose. Open it up again and double check all of your connections. If everything's connected correctly, check that you don't have a diode or capacitor installed backwards.
Wow, look at that detail! Well, you can't really see it too well because the exposure on my camera was set just a bit too long. I have yet to try it on a CRT monitor, but on my LCD, it works great. Give this mod a try with your old Dreamcast, and you'll be glad you did.
I've heard that in the commercial VGA box, there are op-amps on the audio outputs, but the sound will still work on this mod even if you don't add them.
By the way, I've read that you can do a mod extremely similar to this with the XBOX 360 (different pinouts of course. You can do your own research on that one). It won't work with the Wii, Gamecube, or regular XBOX, as none of those output in VGA natively, and I'm not sure on the PS3. This just shows one more example of how advanced the Dreamcast was for its time. I still say the Dreamcast had slightly better graphics than the Gamecube, but I won't fight anyone if they say otherwise.
If it doesn't work, turn it off, flip the switch and try again. If it still doesn't work, a wire's probalby loose. Open it up again and double check all of your connections. If everything's connected correctly, check that you don't have a diode or capacitor installed backwards.
Wow, look at that detail! Well, you can't really see it too well because the exposure on my camera was set just a bit too long. I have yet to try it on a CRT monitor, but on my LCD, it works great. Give this mod a try with your old Dreamcast, and you'll be glad you did.
I've heard that in the commercial VGA box, there are op-amps on the audio outputs, but the sound will still work on this mod even if you don't add them.
By the way, I've read that you can do a mod extremely similar to this with the XBOX 360 (different pinouts of course. You can do your own research on that one). It won't work with the Wii, Gamecube, or regular XBOX, as none of those output in VGA natively, and I'm not sure on the PS3. This just shows one more example of how advanced the Dreamcast was for its time. I still say the Dreamcast had slightly better graphics than the Gamecube, but I won't fight anyone if they say otherwise.
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