SLG 3000: Scanline Generator For Modern Displays
April 18, 2011 2:00 PM | Eric Caoili
German group ArcadeForge, which specializes in custom gaming and arcade equipment, is selling an awesome product called the SLG 3000 that generates artificial scanlines for VGA standard 640x480-using modern displays. Basically, it's designed to make your console games look like their played on an arcade machine.
It's a small circuit board that hooks up in between your console and display, and features a variety of DIP settings for various resolutions and effects (even and odd scanlines). According to Nintendo Life, which posted a review of the SLG 3000, the scanlines it adds can "sharpen the image, giving 2D visuals more clarity."
I've embedded a video of an SLG 3000 unboxing and samples of various Dreamcast games played with the accessory after the break. ArcadeForge is selling the custom units on its site for around $70 ($94 with case).
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This is a perfect example of how the lens of nostalgia can cloud our memories.
Old games didn't have scanlines and they weren't sharper. The old CRTs blurred and bled colors (particularly red) like a mo-fo. That's how these old games got away with such chunky lo-fi. This whole "pixels FTW" train that everyone's on is just us forgetting how lousy things really were back when.
Joe Larson | April 18, 2011 6:26 PM
@Joe Larson: Perhaps you're referring to the video connections themselves causing "bled colors like a mo-fo" because CRTs are pretty awesome. I'd take a 1080i CRT over a 720p LCD any day of the week.
Anyhow... this looks interesting but it probably won't do much good unless you also run it through an XRGB-3 first? Hrmmm...
Ujn Hunter | April 19, 2011 12:15 PM