MY Custom PCE GT

[HercTNT]

I cant do a pic of it in action until i get batteries. I had cheap family dollar batteries and my wife used them up when she "borrowed" the GT from me   Their were no artifacts or issues of any kind on the games I was able to play. In my opinion they looked fantastic. Text was easy to read as well making many more games playable. A huge bonus I would think.  Yea my wife is cool. Shes a blue eyed blonde that kicks ass in some games (sorry i know i'm bragging).  She used to play Unreal tournament 2004 online against me and my friends. When they found out a girl was kicking their ass they quite playing 

[BlueBMW]

Pics or it didn't happen!!

Just kidding

[HercTNT]

I dont have any pics of her kicking our ass, that was just to embarassing 

[spenoza]

I'm assuming if the screen is 640x480 that is it inherently capable of 480p, and to do 480i or 240p requires doubling.

[thesteve]

its composite, so inherently 480i

[spenoza]

Oh, right, a system as old as the GT would us an analog signal and not a digital one... Still, if the resolution of the screen is 640x480, it is doing pixel doubling. The actual display resolution of 240p/480i is 320x240.

[thesteve]

i agree, and suspect its a true 240 display.
it was advertised as 640X480, but thats the format spec for comp video

[HercTNT]

Whatever it is it works great. Now we just need to figure out how to hook a minidisc player through the cartridge port to play cd games and we will be all set. Oh yea, and invent an arc reactor to power it all.  Anyone friends with ironman?

[spenoza]

In that case, it is the perfect screen. So, how does it deal with the many 256x256 res games? Just black bars on the side?

[thesteve]

it will deal with them like any other composite screen, however the game tells it to

[spenoza]

Thing is, I don't know how an analog LCD will typically respond to a resolution change. A long time ago the default was to simply display a smaller screen area, retaining a pixel to pixel aspect ratio and simply blacking out the parts of the screen that aren't in use. But these days  controllers in the LCD often scale the input to the display size. With something like a GT I think I'd actually prefer the former for the extra clarity. That's why I'm curious what the screen does in this case.

[thesteve]

the system does not display different resolutions.
the PCE/TG chipset scales everything to fit the composite standard screen format, so the screen never sees different resolutions.

[esteban]

I can't wait to see some pics of the new screen. Of course, before and after shots would make for a very nice comparison. I know, I know—I'll stop.

Congrats on the GT! I am envious.

[HercTNT]

we live in the middle of podunk usa.  Next week when i get paid i will pick up some energizers so i can take some pics for you guys. Sorry i could not do it sooner. Yea i feel pretty lucky. My only hobbies are retrogaming and building gaming pc's, kinda nerdy i know. My wife does not care, so i'm glad to have my GT. 

[spenoza]

Sounds like you desperately need some good rechargeables. That way you never have to run out for batteries.