laugh
…like he has uncontrollable flatulance, and that’s his nickname…
I don’t know what your talking about my post is spelled right 
I hate it when I do that…I’m sleepy
hey I meant to ask you how is the picture with the dreamcast 15htz scart through the scaler compared to straight VGA
Same as VGA running at 15khz: nicely scaled with a tasteful amount of bilinear smoothing applied. Unlike a straight connection though, I get the proper 4:3 aspect ratio as well. Problem is, I’m using an EU scart cable on a US system, so most titles don’t even output the proper 15khz signal (like the bios for example). All the 240p SNK stuff and titles like Bangai-O work fine, but everything that runs 480i 15khz native gives me a blank screen. Ah well, no giant loss. 15khz VGA works a trick and looks exactly the same.
I’m going to add in a toggle switch to a VGA box this weekend. It’s just too nice an all-in-one solution not to do it. Right now I just have it wired up to an old 24mm Sanwa that I tape down to get 31khz when I want it. :smokin:
Also: between scat cables and tootles, I’m starting to wonder if you might have some fixation issues…
lol must be some subconscious shit Freudian slip stuff
Oh, man Rosser, that was terrible! Firstly, people that crap on S-Video aren’t using a proper display, as the pixels are quite distinct and it is barely inferior to standard resolution RGB (composite on the other hand is horrid compared to RGB). Secondly, the SLG is adding no new content to the original image, it is inserting dark lines between each sliver of original content. If you feed garbage into the SLG, Garbage with slivers of dark lines comes out. “Makeup” would be running the original content through some sort of filter to the extent that you don’t know what the original actually looked like. The SLG does not clean or change the quality of the original image. It adds lines, which some would say “looks nicer” or more like a classic standard resolution CRT.
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Damn you undamned lol your prolly right its just hard to explain to people the whole concept to someone who is new to the idea. My makeup story was trying to explain the idea in layman terms of adding or masking not changing
I’ll second that: I’ve had some fairly high-end Panasonic CRTs where s-vid quality was jaw-dropping.
But, but, but…!
Hey toodles,
I was think of some design revisions for the slg.
Adding a 12-pin harness connector to slg for connecting directly to the output of the gbs
-All gbs scaler variation seem to have 12 pin option it cuts down on price only needing one of the pricey d-sub connectors
The gbs seems to be the go to scaler for most =great price + good results + easy to obtain
some other cool ideas I was thinking is a way of linking them both up in tandem maybe a wider board that the slg could connect to the two holes on the gbs
Ill look into it, but Id need power from that connector; if there isn’t power available on that connector, there’s no point in using it over the VGA port.
good point I’ll have to check I would think they should have the same specs as the vga out
I have a question, where exactly would I need to solder to for a power switch so I don’t have to keep plugging and unplugging the PSU for the scaler.
I’m thinking of ditching my scaler. I’ve been running my library of Saturn titles through it, and I’ve got more than a few that it refuses to display.
US Saturn -> RGB SCART -> Sync Strike -> Scaler -> Monitor
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[]Last Bronx - I get ‘No Input’ on the scaler for the whole game.
[]Daytona USA Championship Edition - Right as the Sega Sports logo comes up I get ‘No Input’, when it switches to the game engine, it works. Then when it goes back to the loading screen, I get ‘No Input’.
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I’d love to say it’s when the Saturn goes into hi-res mode is when it blanks, but Virtua Fighter 2 displays just fine, so I have no idea. I guess what I’m trying to say here is not to make the Toodles Sanner reliant on this particular scaler option. I vote D-Sub in and outs, with pins for the scaler for those that will use it.
Sounds like you’re losing your input when the screen goes bright white. At least that’s what came up with a google search. Maybe try posting on shmups forum they’re always helpful.
Was just messing with it, and for some reason, now it seems to work. I did a reset of the scaler, and when it came back up, everything started working. From what I can see in the menus, nothing is different from what I had it set at before. Weird glitch, but I guess I shouldn’t expect too much from a $30 scaler. 
It just takes sometime to figure out the proper setting have you tried adjusting brightness and some of the other settings most scalers have problems with flashes/transitions to whites $30 or not no scaler is perfect
So do you really plan on getting one of the $300+ scalers and ditch the gbs? don’t forget there are a few variations of the gbs and they all have a 12 pin vga out. I was just suggesting adding the 12pin out connector, it would make for such a cleaner connection instead of having a male-male adapter that forces me to have the scaler upside down. Male-male vga connector are not a parallel connection they are flipped. To have them parallel you have to make one with 2 d-subs and a pcb like they have at arcade forge
If the $300 behaves how I want it to, then yes. I’ve tinkered with this thing for a while now, it’s a great scaler for the price, but it can be very quirky. It’s fast though, I’ll give it that. Faster than my Anchor Bay deck (designed for home theater use) by a few frames for sure. I had it connected to my Sega Nomad running to a monitor, and the external output was perfectly in sync with the built-in screen. So anyway, this thing is fun to play with, but I’ve found it can be finicky with the systems I’ve run through it. The issues I’m seeing have nothing to do with the screen flashing to white, as I’ve already seen that in games like Tempest X3. I’ve confirmed that what I’m explaining is the scaler losing sync when the Saturn switches between low-res and hi-res display modes, and it’s a pain in the ass to get it back. But again: $30 - that’s throwaway money. I didn’t expect the greatest thing ever.
I was just offering feedback for the device Toodles is building. I’ll just keep quiet from now on as I know I don’t have all the answers.
2 very basic questions:
How much?
What input am I using to plug these guys in? Composite? Component? VGA?
no price set a decent amount cheaper than the current slg comp still in early testing
what system do you want to use it for? when all said and done it will work with any source some can be direct connect some need to go through scaler