Some mod chips use a hacked program which was sold with a third-party VGA cable from Blaze a few years ago (O2 mod in PAL territories, Matrix Infinity chip elsewhere) to force VGA mode, but it does not work for all games and many of them are a buggy, non-fullscreen mess when it is enabled.Īs you can see, a big part of it is the implementation, and the way the PS2 is less apt to progressive scan is a problem.

Once you've done all this work though you face the same problem that the transcoders have-the VGA cable only works in VGA mode with games that produce progressive scan natively.

(Because most monitors can't do this.) Alternatively and more dangerously, you can open up your PS2 and remove the sync directly from the board before it ever mixes with the green line. It delivers sync over the green line-even if you make your own cable-so you will have to create a circuit to separate the green and the sync unless your monitors can display sync-on-green. However, the only official cable ever made by Sony for this purpose came with the Linux kit. The PS2 can output VGA all by its lonesome.

Then again, you can always go directly to the source. Real upscanners which work properly with an RGB or Y-Pb-Pr signal start at $200 with the latest device out there (the XRGB3) clearing three hundred dollars American. Their drawback is that they will only work properly on progressive scan games and the chances are great that many games you will want to play on a PS2 won't work in progressive mode. VGA boxes are crap (and can be found for a lot less than $50) and look like an RF connection through an old TV, transcoders work great and can be had for anywhere from $50-100. Right now, the absolute best and simplest option for gaming on a computer monitor is to acquire a monitor that has Y-Pb-Pr input so you can use your component cables. I used dscaler for a few weeks, but it was way worse than crap as there's very little contrast.Įvery so often this question is asked but the question itself is often misunderstood. It doesn't handle interlaced coming off the xbox, so I don't know if you'll be affected by that. It's a vdigi that can handle any component input so it should work with a ps2. I've got a vga box for my xbox and it looks perfectly fine. Yet it would probably be more than acceptable for your situation. Even so, the results will merely be passable.

The $50-100 so called 'vga boxes' on sale are absolute crap.Ī better solution is a cheap TV tuner card (I mean, a $15-20 one will do there's even external USB versions but they're more expensive) and a program called dscaler to deinterlace. So check which games you want to play may or may not have it before you even bother hunting down the hardware unsure about Disgaea 2. That only works with progressive scan games, though, and relatively few ps2 titles support it. It's about $150-200 for a real component>vga/dvi switch.

Playstation 2 board pure rgb sync