Reply To: General help with a Dreamcast, please?

[misternoob]

I really appreciate the feedback, guys.

– I didn’t know later RF boxes were actually modulating composite signals. That’s interesting to know.
– While I’ve read that composite and S-Video can output 240p, I thought that the only way to get a progressive output from the Dreamcast was through a VGA box. When I read about it, people were talking about VGA Boxes so that’s why I assumed it only worked that way. I’m probably wrong, so don’t quote me on that.
– I got a Hakko FX-888D earlier this year cause I decided to learn how to solder properly. And thanks for the tips on what else to get.
– I’m glad that region lock on the Dreamcast is easy to by-pass.
– Wasn’t the external RF box on the NES just a switch to select either antenna or console?
– I have a Sony 1080p and a 4K TV, plus a PS2 with component cables. Both TVs work with the PS2 running 50Hz PAL games (directly connected through component). Same was okay for an early Panasonic flatscreen, an early Phillips LCD and a more recent Samsung LCD. And I’ve tried a PS3 with region free PAL DVD concerts through HDMI on the Sony TVs, they also worked without any change in configurations. So, at least in my experience, modern TVs are less fussy about color regions and just accept both inputs. Just to clarify, I’m on an NTSC area, and all of my older systems are NTSC as well.
– According to the SegaRetro, there has been only one VGA Box model and it was only released in Japan. From the photos on eBay, there’s only composite, S-Video and DB-15 outputs. And the SCART cable was only released in Europe as a simple cable.

By the way, Christoff uploaded this video on the DCHDMI output last week, if anyone haven’t seen it yet – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXsah8INPi0. Just showing off how clear Crazy Taxi 2 looks, plus the OSD.

Well, getting a Dreamcast ready for my HDTV sounds a little less of a daunting task.
I’ll wait for the DCHDMI, if it proves to be impossible to buy like the UltraHDMI, then I’ll resort to Toro. I don’t have enough shelf space to install the Akura without bending the cable.

Thanks for all the help.