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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: gabe on August 04, 2011, 11:48:21 am

Title: Properly calibrating monitor for dreamcast?
Post by: gabe on August 04, 2011, 11:48:21 am

I just purchased a 21" CRT monitor which I intend to use exclusively as a Sega Dreamcast display, connected via VGA box.

Does anyone have any tips on how I might go about properly calibrating the monitor for this purpose?

Is my best bet to hook it up to a PC and use one of the many tools? Would calibrating it on a PC be completely useless, as the PC is NOT the Dreamcast? Should I just go with the factory defaults and tweak it until I say "that looks pretty good"?

Title: Re: Properly calibrating monitor for dreamcast?
Post by: MonMotha on August 04, 2011, 05:37:13 pm

The dreamcast VGA box and PC should output comparable signals at 640x480 in terms of video levels, so you can probably just set brightness/contrast with the PC and get it pretty darned close.  You may have to tweak the geometry some when you move from the PC to the DC.

Title: Re: Properly calibrating monitor for dreamcast?
Post by: gabe on August 05, 2011, 10:33:33 am

It turns out Artemio over at the Shmups forum has developed a tool for just such an occasion. If anyone is interested:

240p test suite for Dreamcast, Genesis and Sega CD (http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=35554)