PAL Super NES and RGB mess-up

[Binary Defence Crimson]

I got my unmodded PAL Super NES out this afternoon for my sister to play on. I used the (official Nintendo) RGB lead from my Gamecube to connect the Super NES to my TV via a SCART switchbox. Oddly enough, when the switchbox is set to RGB mode, the picture is crisp RGB but disappears after five seconds. With a composite signal the picture display (although oddly enough Super Mario Kart made the picture jump about). Any ideas why that happened?

Y'see I'm thinking about modding my Super NES to 60Hz soon so I'm hoping that the RGB lead can be made to work with it.

BTW, I had similar probs a while back with a Blaze N64 SCART lead - one that oddly describes itself as "RGB" on the packaging.

[Abhisara]

You need to open up the RGB lead and remove the 3 capacitors on the R, G and B lines to get it to work with a PAL SNES. You don't need to modify it for an NTSC SNES or SFC though.

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/nintendo/pal-snes-rgb.htm

[Binary Defence Crimson]

You need to open up the RGB lead and remove the 3 capacitors on the R, G and B lines to get it to work with a PAL SNES. You don't need to modify it for an NTSC SNES or SFC though.
http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/ni...l-snes-rgb.htm

Thanks! That's exactly what I need. It won't prevent the lead from working properly with my GC though will it?

[Abhisara]

No. Once you've done the mod, you won't be able to use it on your GC (I think you get a very bright picture which will not be good for your TV). You'll need to get a second lead.

[Binary Defence Crimson]

No. Once you've done the mod, you won't be able to use it on your GC (I think you get a very bright picture which will not be good for your TV). You'll need to get a second lead.

Well, I'll give that a miss as the official lead cost me 20 quid back in May 2002.

I'll get myself a third-party GC or Super NES compatible lead from somewhere then do the mod on one of those instead. Even my limited electronics skills shouldn't have a prob.

[Shadow_Zero]

Take into account that removing the capacitors might not be 100% satisfactory, as I've heard, and experienced myself, that without the capacitors the picture will be overly bright. This can be fixed by adding transistors if I recall correctly, but too bad my technical/solder skill prevent me from trying that