I already do use the GBA SP model 101 to view my GBC games (I already said that above), but as I said the screen display doing it this way has a very small size compared to what I would really like.Bush wrote:Holy shi**. Thats a lot of words. My suggestion, is to use a GBA. They are cheap. The super gameboy also puts the game in a letter box, so a GBA would be ideal. The thing is, when you stretch the screen on a GBA, it is going from 4:3 to 16:9. But the Psone screen is 4:3. This means you will have a very thin box lengthwise, giving a smushed picture. If you then stretch it, it should fit the screen, giving a 4:3 ratio. If you don't understand what I'm saying I can make some mockups.
Yes I just before you mentioned it did some research and only just found out that the Super GameBoy outputs only a small square inside it's screen when in GB mode, with large borders all round (as shown by VirtualBoy Advance screen shots below). So that's also not going to be suitable.
EDIT: Darn it I can't attach pic's, says the board quota has been reached? Anyway just run VBA and a GB game and select SGB mode and border on and see what I mean!
Yes I know what you mean about the ratios and things, I already described that effect in detail above complete with measurements in inches etc.
With respect, the GBA does not stretch the 4:3 GBC screen to 16:9, your ratios are wrong, read what I said above, the GBC is 1.1:1 aspect, the GBA is 3:2. So GBA stretches GBC screen output from 1.1:1 to 3:2 when you press the shoulder button on the GBA.
So I'm still looking for a way of getting a GBA to output to a PSOne screen WHILST filling (or nearly so) the screen with the GBC game, OR by getting a GBC itself to output somehow to a PSOne screen via a card / TVout or whatever.
I now understand how Bacteria's BigBoy Advance's output is being mapped onto the PSOne screen, his GBA is outputting via a GBA "transverter" card and it adds black borders top and bottom to the TV / RGB output, giving a 3:2 aspect display window in a 4:3 screen output, which is fed to the LCD, so if I use GBC mode (when not pressing shoulder button) then the output would be a small square inside the PSOne screen. It's this that I need to alter somehow. I have a feeling though that if there is such a user-alteration possible, where I can press the shoulder button on the GBA to get full screen width on GBC game, and turn a pot on the PCB of the PSOne or GBA transverter or something to scale the "GBC output" to full screen height, then I might get gaps between scan lines if it's being scaled using analog circuitry, and that's even if it's possible to do such a thing with the PSOne or the transverter (I'll have to look deeper into this LOL).
Cheers,
Alistair G.
