Dreamcast RGB problem

[toythatkills]

I have a Japanese Dreamcast, and a Competition Pro RGB scart cable, but the picture is still in black and white.

Anyone know why?

[charlaph]

Possibly the Scart cable isn't actually outputting RGB, it's doing composite?

[Saurian]

A lot of these RGB cables sold in the UK are not wired correctly. Just recently I got a load of Joytech ones which had 1.5v wired to the ground pin of the SCART connector and no voltage to pin 8 or 16 - so even tho it was wired for RGB it would never give an image.

My Dreamcast does not output a composite video signal when an RGB cable is plugged in - you only get composite sync. I suggest that cable isnt an RGB at all - the ones www.videogameimports.com sell are.

[Valken]

My Dreamcast does not output a composite video signal when an RGB cable is plugged in - you only get composite sync.

Same applied to two DCs I have. (one pal, one ntsc-j)

[MD]

it's worth making sure that the connection into the dreamcast is plugged in firmly as if its not it won't switch to RGB and just show composite..

[Salsa Party Animal]

Now I am worried as I got Competition pro RGB scart cable on the way let hope there is no problem.

[Ginza]

I got an official Dreamcast RGB scart cable off eBay the other day and when plugged in it outputs sound on one TV with a black screen and works perfectly on another and of course the TV it doesnt work on is the one I use all the time. Very odd.