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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Help can my gamecube be hooked-up?
« on: March 05, 2005, 08:00:09 PM »
I was going to recommend a component to VGA transcoder, like the one from Key Digital, which is what I use. Then I checked the latest prices, and was surprised to find that they're listed for $159 (!!) now. I bought one a year ago on sale for $60 to use with my Gamecube and Xbox, and it works great. However, if you are just wanting a cheap VGA hookup, that modified cable from Ahead Games looks like a better value. The adapter I use requires component inputs, which means you'd need to shell out $30 more for the GC component cables. The advantage of the transcoder is that it has a VGA passthrough so you can hook up both a console and PC at the same time, and since it takes component inputs you can hook up either a Gamecube or Xbox if you have it (I guess PS2 as well for the very rare progressive scan PS2 games, but I haven't tried that).

If you want to play interlaced games on a VGA monitor, you'll need an upscan converter. There are cheap ones out there, but I've never heard very good things about the quality of their output. I use an XRGB-2 Plus upscan converter from Micomsoft for this, but they're not cheap ($200+). The quality is excellent though. The drawback is that the XRGB-2 only takes an interlaced signal, so for a system like the Gamecube which has a fairly large number of non-progressive games, I have to switch back and forth between the transcoder and upscan converter.

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TalkBack / RE:DS Dev Kits On The Way!
« on: March 05, 2005, 07:39:39 PM »
When I read this article, my first thoughts were of the Turbografx-16 as well.

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Originally posted by: ruby_onix
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...while Hudson has the rare and valuable experience of being both a game developer and hardware manufacturer.

After the TurboGrafx-16 got off to a rocky start in North America, NEC brought in Hudson (their biggest software supporter) to try and "redesign" the TG-16's image. After that failed too, NEC just sort of "gave" the system to Hudson and walked away.



Actually, Hudson designed the Turbografx-16 hardware. They've had a hardware group for a long time. In the mid-80s they developed an IC memory card technology and mated it with an 8-bit home computer design to come up with the original PC Engine (nee Turbografx-16). NEC, a big computer maker in Japan at the time, wanted something to compete against MSX machines, so they bought the PC Engine design from Hudson. For whatever reason, NEC ultimately decided to recast the hardware as a game console to compete against the Famicom. Hudson also developed the hardware behind the 32-bit PC-FX console system that NEC released in 1994. And they developed the hardware and OS for the X68000 computer released by Sharp in the late 80s (basically a high-end home computer similar to the Amiga that was great for games). So Hudson has a pretty long history with game hardware.

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