Playing consoles through a CRT?

Sic · 30 Jun 2006 at 13:40

i have a 15" TV

rolleyes: ) and a 20" CRT, and it's just occurred to me to think about playing my consoles through my monitor! how would i go about connecting a:

gamecube
SNES
N64
Dreamcast

to a CRT? any help/links/whatever would be most appreciated

Nismo · 30 Jun 2006 at 13:53

Dreamcast is easy as it had its own VGA lead, should be able to pick one up on eBay pretty easily.

The others will have to go through some sort of VGA convertor switchbox thingymabob™

Rich_L · 30 Jun 2006 at 13:58

If a computer is also attaced to said monitor, then TV card running through DScaler works pretty well in my experience.

DaveyD · 30 Jun 2006 at 13:59

You can use XGA box things, I have one, but it's pretty pants, quality is quite poor visually, but I'm sure it would be fine for stuff like SNES games. You can do it through your PC if your graphics card has a video in, which would probably be the best option using a program which I think is called Dscaler.

Sic · 30 Jun 2006 at 14:14

thing is, i'm using a Mac - i'll have to try and find an equivalent.

the important ones are the DC and the Gamecube - and i doubt i'll play the nintendo's when the Wii comes out :rolleyes:

utherpendragon · 30 Jun 2006 at 15:15

Sic said:
thing is, i'm using a Mac - i'll have to try and find an equivalent.

the important ones are the DC and the Gamecube - and i doubt i'll play the nintendo's when the Wii comes out

You can pick a vga cable for both. Try somewhere like lik-sang.