Dreamcast VGA Cable Compatibility List
While VGA mode is supported by most every Dreamcast games, there are a few that do not support it. Some of the non-VGA games can be patched to be used with a Dreamcast VGA cable by making some quick modifications to the ripped game’s CDI file.
You can also get a full-featured Dreamcast VGA Box that sports both S-Video and Composite Video for non-VGA games.
Fortunately, most of the games that do no support VGA mode aren’t that good anyway. The only game I am bummed out about is Last Blade 2. However, if you must play this game on a VGA monitor, you might as well just emulate it with MAME.
Anyway, you will find a list of nearly every Dreamcast game and their VGA compatibility status.
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Great work, thanks.
Excelent work!! and LACK OF LOVE Do not work unfortunately i dont know if can be patched.
You can also boot the DC with the VGA If your VGA adapter as a switch, you can boot the DC with the switch on RCA. After hearing the DC “beep” to confirm a successful boot, toggle the switch to “VGA” mode. I have used this for Bangai-O with mixed results (sometimes it worked, sometimes it did not). This may or may not always work, and I am unsure if there are any side-effects to the VGA converter, the DC console, or the VGA monitor.
My Evolution does not work my VGA box, Video mode does not support.
My Mortal Kombat Gold works fine without patch.
can somebody help me where can I get the patch or Boot cd for those incompatibility games to work with the vga output? email me at dl211981@yahoo.com
thanks
Are they originals or backups?
Which region are you?htpu
The german version of Resident Evil CODE Veronica does NOT work in VGA mode. Also, my Version of Railroad Tycoon 2 only shows a black screen on the VGA box, although it should work according to the “VGA Compatible” icon on the box. Dunno why…
All my games are original, no copies or bootleg
can not get european version of shenmue 2 to work with this cable any help?
Excellent resource, thanks very much - just one thing though: it should be ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ and not ‘Who Wants To Beat Up A Millianare’, though I imagine the latter would make for a pretty entertaining evening as well. Probably more so, actually.
Actually, there is such a game
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/g/dreamcast/who_wants_to_beat_up_a_millionaire/overview.php
My European Version of Code Veronica doesn’t work in VGA mode. Is there any way to patch it or something?
The VGA box I bought from you is nice though!
I would recommend downloading one of the rips of the game that are out there. That should do the trick for you.
So not every VGA compatible game actuallly states it? for example, USA version of SF3 double impact doesn’t list VGA, but the list on this site says it is VGA compatible, I hope that’s true.
No, not every one states it. Not sure how they made the decision of it they mention it or not….
My european version of Soul Calibur doesn’t support VGA, but by using the switch trick I still got it working
regarding shenmue II: 3D models do look great, but only those of humans. textures, especially those for walls, floors etc are very low res. it really looks strange seeing ryu walk down a street where humans and signs look great and the walls and tiles are unsharp
Super Boom Tread Troopers from the Official Dreamcast Magazine does not work.
with my dreamcast and the vga box with composite and s-video out, nfl blitz 2000 is not compatible, contrary to what the list above says.
Actually, Super Boom Tread Troopers from the Official Dreamcast Magazine is patchable, although it looks pretty bad all around, besides the tanks.
Just to let you know, I have had success running Iron Aces with the VGA Box i bought from you on a Staples 19″ LCD monitor with no issues. for what its worth, by using the switch trick.
About Space Channel 5… the 3D models are great.. but the backdrops are muddy and just look nasty- are they pre-rendered? Something that would make this monitor (using VGA) show the backdrops strangely? And I’m using a ‘Performance VGA Adapter’.
In the first Space Channel 5, they are pre-rendered. And if you are running off a backup disc, they have been downsampled to fit on a CD-R, making them look worse.
Evolution 1 doesnt work with the vga box with the switch (svid output) even though the evolution 1 box states it is vga cable compatible. To get around this you can use the switch technique. I havent tried it with the vga cable as I do not have one of those. Can anyone confirm?
has anyone tried the dc-x bootdisc?
I only tried one game, army men; after booting up dc-x, push any button, insert the game and change the output to rgb and the game boots up perfectly! Might work with other games as well!?
Does anyone know why my VGA adapter makes my LCD display a weird faint pattern…is this normal when outputting in VGA? It’s hard to describe, but there’s like vertical lines across the screen…looks weird.
I’m not using the box, but the cable with sound output.
Let me know at BBoy.Vector@gmail.com
(does the box have sound output other than RCA?)
Hi!
I’m from Spain. Anyone could tell me if the Dreamcast Vga Box works with the PAL version (European version) of the Dreamcast? I supose so but i’m not sure about it.
Thanks.
what about under defeat? …just curious, thanks
keith
Ordered the VGA Cable (not the box) today. Will test it directly after I received it on a EIZO Radiforce RX210 21,3inch TFT-screen.
Screen has great specs.
I didn’t know some games could be patchable….
Can anyone help me on that?
I just saw a forum post show up about that — was that you as well?
I have a dilemma in that I cannot play Evolution 1 (NTSC-U) with the VGA cable I ordered from here, yet it clearly states in the list as well as the back of the box that the game is compatible with one. If anyone can fill me in on a way to resolve this, I’d appreciate your help.
That’s odd. I assume other games of yours work fine?
Yeah, they do.
Yeah, Utopia 1.2 claims to have VGA patch.
I tried my bought games, Dragons Blood and
Resident Evil: code veronica and the best
the Utopia could do was make my Dragons
Blood game appear in a fuzzy double image
on my TV and a Ghost image on my TFT monitor.
Looking forward to DC-X or Gameshark Lite doing
a better job when I get them burnt to CD.
Racketboy - i bought the VGA cable http://www.racketboy.com/store/dreamcast-vga-cable-box.htm
and use a Samsung LCD HDTV. For some odd reason, the screen doesn’t fill up the whole screen canvas. Also kinda hard to explain - but the image looks like i get these weird vertical bars
any help in fixing the image?
I was curious, what kind of specs should I look for in an excellent Dreamcast monitor? I have tried 3 different monitors, a 19 inch, a 22 inch, and an older CRT. All of which have shown me very strong jagged edges in all sorts of games. Main ones I’ve tested were Jet Grind Radio, and Soul Calibur. Is there a particular monitor I’m supposed to look for?
I do know that 2 of the monitors I mentioned do run in a 16:10 format.
Unforunately we don’t have a TV that is VGA compatible.
Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
Actually, the TV you use isn’t going to make a difference with the jaggies — that’s all dependant on if anti-aliasing is taken care of in the game. However, the DC can’t usually handle that. The on downside of the VGA box is that the picture is so clear, you can see all those imperfections. Hope that helps!
So… then why is VGA so outstanding compared to S-Video if the jaggedness degrades picture quality(depending on personal preference of course)? Is it mainly because of the 480p EDTV? Also another question. Has anyone else experienced this - the boot menu icons being transparent while running VGA? Is this supposed to happen?
It’s all about clarity. That’s why people like the VGA.
So yeah, I guess you could say its a matter of personal preference.
Thanks for getting back to me racketboy, sorry this discussion really should have been on a forum or something lol. Thanks for the feedback, maybe I’ll just have to sit back farther from the monitor to remove some jaggies. I’ll get an HDTV of my own one day, then we’ll see.
You don’t sell Saturn Memory carts do you? just your 1meg/4meg ram carts?
Thanks for getting back to me racketboy, sorry this discussion really should have been on a forum or something lol. Thanks for the feedback, maybe I’ll just have to sit back farther from the monitor to remove some jaggies. I’ll get an HDTV of my own one day, then we’ll see.
You don’t sell Saturn Memory carts, do you? Just your 1meg/4meg ram carts? Also, if you don’t, do you recommend any other place that does?
i have the vga cable and nfl blitz 2000 and hydro thunder will not work with the vga
Got the VGA cable ultra-quick (to say it came from the US, I’m in the UK), fab and I love it.
Re. “Xiaopang said: My european version of Soul Calibur doesn’t support VGA, but by using the switch trick I still got it working”
My PAL copy (original) of Soul Calibur works fine without any trick, but the image is ’shifted’ to the right: the output fills the screen during DC boot up sequence (white background then DC logo with jingle), which is also ’shifted to the right’, but then black bar to the left. Could be my TFT, though.
My PAL copy of Rayman 2 (bootleg) doesn’t work though (DC displays a msg that “the game is not compatible with the AV cable”, or somesuch. The msg has same background as the main DC menu).
Still, niggles aside, a fab item given the picture quality, and thanks very much for the ultra-fast shipping.
The above guide was wrote by me and not by anyone on this site, infact it’s a complete copy and paste and has a few errors in it that I will be fixing soon now that I am back online, the new updated list will also have region codes included and a few extra games that I forgot to add last time.
Although the VGA compat list is basicly correct in it’s original state some region versions work while others don’t and this needs rectifying but my update will not be here.
I did not and do not give permission for this to be here, the amount of work I put into creating the guide is too much for it just to be stolen and claimed credit for by someone who had nothing to do with my project.
Hey man — very sorry about this….
Not sure why I didn’t give credit at the time (back in 2006)
I can either give credit however you would like or take it down completely.
Up to you — just let me know
Thanks!
I think I better answer this tomorrow, I’m not such a happy chappy at the moment so it would be unwise for us both for me to say anything more at the moment, but I do thank you for recognising me and not dismissing me as some random crazy guy.
No problem man — again terribly sorry and I appreciate the calm response.
I’m a pretty easy guy to deal with and I don’t make a habit of copy & pasting — especially without giving credit.
It happens to me all the time and it doesn’t make me happy either
Just took out the list and replaced it with a link.
That should solve the problem.
Again, sorry for this issue and I appreciate your hard work
Thanks for being honest and yeah thats great you are more than welcome to link up to the guide and I will be updating from not only my own information but also the great feedback from here aswell
As I am currently updating so most of the VGA list is unusable at the moment.
The formating has changed alot as you will be able to tell from the first few updated entries.
As this will take some time I will leave a message here once it’s complete.
Hopefully it wont take too long..
Does anyone know if a Dreamcast with a VGA cable box will work on a Sony Bravia 46″ FULL HD LCD TV? It has a port for a computer but I was reading some TVs with this port, the Dreamcast does not work on.
Hope someone can help me out
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