Okay, so I've got a new gaming setup, and while moving the consoles around I figured that I may as well go with RGB cables for all my consoles - and about time, too.
My TV accepts RGB just fine, and when I plug my Dreamcast or Playstation into the RGB socket, I get a lovely, juicy, crispy picture - just as intended.
It's with the other consoles where the problems begin.
I had to sell my XBox some time ago, so that can be left out of the equation. I'm currently working with the following as the problem units:
PAL Saturn
NTSC Gamecube
Panasonic Q with modified RGB cable
With all three of these consoles, I'm getting no picture at all through my RGB socket. To break it down more clearly:
Saturn: Totally black screen through RGB - (can't even view on-screen displays), clear sound, though. Works fine when used as a regular scart lead in the regular scart socket, though - Just no benefit of a better picture.
Gamecube: No sound, no picture - Totally black screen. (Again - can't even view on-screen displays). This is being tested with the Q RGB cable, which as I understand it should work.
Panasonic Q: Right, more interesting because of the two sets of plugs - It'll output through the AV connection just fine through either scart plug, but as soon as I plug in the digital RGB connection, it'll give the aforementioned black screen - but, I'll still get sound because the AV leads are connected. Trying to run the GC without the AV leads will obviously result in the black screen/no sound/no picture that I got with the GC.
Okay, then - My theory is this, but feel free to **** on it from a height if you know better: The Dreamcast works fine because the TV is auto-detecting it as RGB, with the Saturn and Q cables, it isn't.
Am I even close?
I need help! Save me.
My TV accepts RGB just fine, and when I plug my Dreamcast or Playstation into the RGB socket, I get a lovely, juicy, crispy picture - just as intended.
It's with the other consoles where the problems begin.
I had to sell my XBox some time ago, so that can be left out of the equation. I'm currently working with the following as the problem units:
PAL Saturn
NTSC Gamecube
Panasonic Q with modified RGB cable
With all three of these consoles, I'm getting no picture at all through my RGB socket. To break it down more clearly:
Saturn: Totally black screen through RGB - (can't even view on-screen displays), clear sound, though. Works fine when used as a regular scart lead in the regular scart socket, though - Just no benefit of a better picture.
Gamecube: No sound, no picture - Totally black screen. (Again - can't even view on-screen displays). This is being tested with the Q RGB cable, which as I understand it should work.
Panasonic Q: Right, more interesting because of the two sets of plugs - It'll output through the AV connection just fine through either scart plug, but as soon as I plug in the digital RGB connection, it'll give the aforementioned black screen - but, I'll still get sound because the AV leads are connected. Trying to run the GC without the AV leads will obviously result in the black screen/no sound/no picture that I got with the GC.
Okay, then - My theory is this, but feel free to **** on it from a height if you know better: The Dreamcast works fine because the TV is auto-detecting it as RGB, with the Saturn and Q cables, it isn't.
Am I even close?
I need help! Save me.
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