Can I Play My Vidya Games on my PC Monitor?

[Tanegashima]

Okay, I'm moving out on my own very very soon and I don't know if I'm gonna have room for my 32'' CRT TV and I was wondering if there is a way to hook composite video cables to my monitor and at the same time get sound out of my monitor?

Is this a moronic thought? Is it somehow possible?

[17daysolderthannes]

I think you can get a graphics card with A/V inputs, but no computer monitor has sound (unless there is a built in speaker, duh), you'll have to just get some cheapie speakers (you can get unpowered speakers for like $10 or less) or just plug them into a stereo if you have them. I think you'll just have to do what I'm going to do when I go off to law school: torrent some complete ROM sets and just emulate everything.

[Tanegashima]

You're majoring in engineering and then going to law school?

What about this:

http://reviews.pricegrabber.com/video-capture-devices/m/511329/

[17daysolderthannes]

You're majoring in engineering and then going to law school?

What about this:

http://reviews.pricegrabber.com/video-capture-devices/m/511329/

well, here's one thing to note: you could buy a used basic 13" CRT TV for LESS than that adapter and you would get a much better overall picture with no lag (I can almost assure that thing will lag a bit, especially in intense shooters that I know you love). Most likely, that thing will show scanlines like crazy and it will give you brain damage.

And, yep, I am, patent attorney. What is that you say? I'm arguing AGAINST prolonged intellectual property protection yet I'm going into a specific form of law that is all about intellectual property protection? yep. Sometimes doing what's right isn't what benefits you the most. And like I had said in that thread anyway, I think 20 years is a fair amount of time for protection, and that's what probably 95% of the lawsuits deal with anyway. Also, patent attorneys deal more with creating the patents rather than suing over them, suing only happens when dipshits don't check to see if their product violates patents or not. I mean, you have to protect new inventions, otherwise you could spend thousands or millions in research and development to have some asshole reverse engineer it and sell the same damn thing right away.

[jerry coeurl]

I like vidya games. Hyuk.

[kool kitty89]

Standard VGA monitors put out through RGB, right? So, while this won't work for many systems, the Genesis (and I think your Neo Geo CD too, which shares the Gen M1's AV out) outputs RGB, so you could probably make a VGA cable for the genesis DIN A/V port. (or get an SCART a/v cable and an SCART to VGA adaptor, but that may cost a bit). The master system has an identical port as well, and it works the same. Note though, that you won't get any sound through the cable this way, but with a M1 Genesis you'd usually be hooking up through the Headphone jack anyway -to get stereo.

As mentioned, you should also be able to get a video card that supports composite or S-Video pretty easily. Many will also include a coaxial RF imput for a TV signal. However, I've heard some people have had trouble hooking up a Genesis (or SMS) through composite on a video card (gets a very distorted wierd immage), and have had similar problems even through RF with a TV tuner. (the Atari 2600 doesn't work right either)

You shouldn't have any problems hooking up newer consoles like you Dreamcast or PS2 though.

[Chilly Willy]

Standard VGA monitors put out through RGB, right? So, while this won't work for many systems, the Genesis (and I think your Neo Geo CD too, which shares the Gen M1's AV out) outputs RGB, so you could probably make a VGA cable for the genesis DIN A/V port.

No dice - the Genesis outputs RGB, but not at VGA frequencies. Unless you have a multisync that goes down to 15 kHz, forget RGB. I have an RGB cable and for the longest time ran it on an Amiga 1084 monitor. Nice sharp picture. :) Unfortunately, it's just a 13" screen. :( What you want is a converter to change RGB into component. Then you can get RGB quality on your HDTV. That's what I'm trying to put together right now.

[MN12BIRD]

You may want to find a Composite to VGA box as most monitors only take in VGA (RGB based) video. You can use a TV Tuner as mentioned but many of them aren't good for gaming on as there may be a bit of lag before what happens actually gets displayed. Sometimes its almost a full second or enough to throw off your button timing! Makes playing a bit harder. Also keep in mind the resolution on the monitor may be so high that displaying a composite video system ends up looking like crap anyway.

[kool kitty89]

You may want to find a Composite to VGA box as most monitors only take in VGA (RGB based) video. You can use a TV Tuner as mentioned but many of them aren't good for gaming on as there may be a bit of lag before what happens actually gets displayed. Sometimes its almost a full second or enough to throw off your button timing! Makes playing a bit harder. Also keep in mind the resolution on the monitor may be so high that displaying a composite video system ends up looking like crap anyway.

If you get a video card with S-Video in, that should give a pretty decent signal. (which shouldn't be too hard to find, I don't know about ones that offer component video in though) Of course, this won't help with the (unmoded) Genesis.

BTW were your viewing problems for the Genesis/SMS all through RF on your tuner? (do you have a composite in on your card?)

[MN12BIRD]

RF or composite... makes no difference. Picture has no color and I'm guessing no sync (scrolls top to bottom)