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Re: Screen performance?

Post by Robochris » Thu May 11, 2017 8:06 pm

Thanks guys! The shielded composite cable worked! It's not perfect... maybe I'm too picky but it's way better than before.

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Re: Screen performance?

Post by Boydee » Wed May 17, 2017 3:12 am

Im having the same issue, atm im in the testing stage where i have the screen wired up to the pi for testing.

so I don't quite understand, the shielded wire has an inner and an outter wire are you soldering the inner part to ground the the outter to your video signal ?
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Re: Screen performance?

Post by VeteranGamer » Wed May 17, 2017 3:24 am

Boydee wrote:
Wed May 17, 2017 3:12 am
Im having the same issue, atm im in the testing stage where i have the screen wired up to the pi for testing.

so I don't quite understand, the shielded wire has an inner and an outter wire are you soldering the inner part to ground the the outter to your video signal ?
the inner wire is your video signal, and the outer wire goes to the ground at both ends (providing the shielding)

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Re: Screen performance?

Post by Boydee » Wed May 17, 2017 4:16 am

Cool thanks for that, Ive tried that but still to the eye the text seems alittle distorted. Maybe my screen is just a crap one ?
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Re: Screen performance?

Post by cobramike » Wed May 17, 2017 4:24 am

I had the same problems where you can see lines in my screen and als distorted. Now it works verry wel. Stil not perfect but its 75% better then befor.
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Re: Screen performance?

Post by VeteranGamer » Wed May 17, 2017 6:02 am

Boydee wrote:
Wed May 17, 2017 4:16 am
Cool thanks for that, Ive tried that but still to the eye the text seems alittle distorted. Maybe my screen is just a crap one ?
the text in the menus (es menu) is gonna be like that, its a basic backup camera monitor or low res composite screen you cant expect great stuff...

you can always may sure you have changed the resolution in the config and to help select games easier opt for an optimised theme like the es gbz35 theme....

emulation station text is still gonna be fuzzy, a work around that i found was to tilt the viewing angle, its not perfect but makes the text a little better for reading

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Re: Screen performance?

Post by cobramike » Wed May 17, 2017 7:04 am

VeteranGamer wrote:
Wed May 17, 2017 6:02 am
Boydee wrote:
Wed May 17, 2017 4:16 am
Cool thanks for that, Ive tried that but still to the eye the text seems alittle distorted. Maybe my screen is just a crap one ?
the text in the menus (es menu) is gonna be like that, its a basic backup camera monitor or low res composite screen you cant expect great stuff...

you can always may sure you have changed the resolution in the config and to help select games easier opt for an optimised theme like the es gbz35 theme....

emulation station text is still gonna be fuzzy, a work around that i found was to tilt the viewing angle, its not perfect but makes the text a little better for reading
Do you have a tutorial. Woot be nice
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Re: Screen performance?

Post by VeteranGamer » Wed May 17, 2017 7:37 am

cobramike wrote:
Wed May 17, 2017 7:04 am

Do you have a tutorial. Woot be nice
a tuturial for what?

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Re: Screen performance?

Post by Robochris » Wed May 17, 2017 1:32 pm

There's an Emulation station theme that's optimized for the low res 3.5 screen.

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Re: Screen performance?

Post by Boydee » Wed May 17, 2017 1:58 pm

Yeah I understand the screen is only a cheap one. Do you know what the name of the theme is?
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