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    Here's whats up. I display my Dreamcast on my Samsung 740B LCD monitor. This monitor's resizing method for VGA flat out sucks. Dreamcast's 640x480 getting upscaled to 1280x1024 pixels is not pretty.

    That is until I fine tune the Coarse setting so that every Dreamcast pixel is given 4 of the monitor's pixels, squared. And then it looks great! Aside from the minor vertical smearing (due to 1024 not being a multiple of 480), I love it.

    There just one issue. This monitor's H-Position will not go far enough to the left, to display the entire image, once I set the Coarse setting high enough to get optimal image quality. A good inch or two is being chopped off of the right side, and I have an inch or two of a black bar on the left side. The H-Position is set as far left as it will go.

    I know that some games have an option to adjust the screen position. Problem is, this doesn't actually shift the screen over. The black bar remains on the left side of the screen the whole time, and the actual image buries itself under that black bar. So I can do this to make things centered better, but then I am basically missing a portion of both sides of the screen, and usually the option in each game won't even let me slide it over as far as I need to.

    I've put a couple images together in photoshop to help describe the issue. Yes, these are fake. They are not screen captures of what my monitor truely does to the image under both settings, but this is a VERY accurate representation of what happens.

    Here is when I have the Dreamcast's 640 h-pixels perfectly scaled by 200%. The horizontal pixels cannot be scaled perfectly because 1024 is not a multiple of 480. As you can see, there is a black bar on the left and a portion of the screen is chopped off on the right.
    http://www.stevemv.com/storage/GoodScaling.png

    Here you can see what it looks like when I am forced to adjust the coarse setting and squish the image horizontally, so that I can see the whole picture. I still have the black bar on the left, but nothing is being chopped off on the right. There is now very jagged edges on all surfaces.
    http://www.stevemv.com/storage/BadScaling.png





    So here's the questions:

    Can I somehow force my LCD to push the H-Position more to the left through some secret setting?

    Or can I somehow hack the DC VGA box to do this? Perhaps put a resistor on the H-Sync wire? I have no idea.
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    There's gatta be someone out there who also has H-Position issues with an LCD.
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