Scart Lead Help???

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Googling says that the SCART socket on this model of TV is RGB.
Red White and Yellow is AV i.e. Composite Video i.e. Left and Right Audio, Composite Video. Aka Compo****e Video.

Thanks, I knew the Red and White were left and right audio but wasn't sure if it the yellow wire made it composite or S-Video.

The official cable I have is also missing pins i.e. not "fully-loaded" which was surprising, it also comes with a little slip of paper advising that

"Note on connecting to a TV with a scart cable"

"Some televisions may have two or more Scart sockets for plugging in Scart cables. In such cases, check the owner's manual provided with your television and connect the Dreamcast Scart cable to the socket that supports RGB input (usually Scart 1). Note that the Dreamcast display (video) may not be visible if the Scart cable is connected to a Scart socket that does not support RGB input"

But from what it seems you seem to be doing everything correctly

It is baffling, I think my best option is to get a VGA box and just look at it as a good excuse to buy an Apple Cinema HD Display. I just hope there's a way to forces non-compatible DC games to display in VGA... I'll google for it.

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What you haven't said is if the TV concerned is actually NTSC capable - you need to check the instruction manual. If it just has a PAL60 facility and you're using a JAP DC outputting NTSC, a b/w result is what you'd expect.

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I have since checked and various web sites I've been to do suggest it is NTSC playback capable. What it doesn't say is if it auto-detects a NTSC source. It may actually need to be switched to NTSC via the menus. Sounds like a good little TV BTW.

Since the cable is known to work on other TVs, unless there is something wrong with the SCART socket on the Sony KLV 17H2, my suspicion is that the problem is still to do with the Official RGB SCART cable being used with a JAP DC.

Rather than give up on RGB or trying more expensive solutions I'd spend a few pounds buying a cheap, standard (no AV block) independent DC RGB SCART cable via Amazon or wherever, and just try that first.

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You can force non-VGA games into VGA if you have a VGA enable/disable switch in conjunction with internal VGA and fitted connector, im not sure about other ways..

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What you haven't said is if the TV concerned is actually NTSC capable - you need to check the instruction manual. If it just has a PAL60 facility and you're using a JAP DC outputting NTSC, a b/w result is what you'd expect.

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I have since checked and various web sites I've been to do suggest it is NTSC playback capable. What it doesn't say is if it auto-detects a NTSC source. It may actually need to be switched to NTSC via the menus. Sounds like a good little TV BTW.

Since the cable is known to work on other TVs, unless there is something wrong with the SCART socket on the Sony KLV 17H2, my suspicion is that the problem is still to do with the Official RGB SCART cable being used with a JAP DC.

Rather than give up on RGB or trying more expensive solutions I'd spend a few pounds buying a cheap, standard (no AV block) independent DC RGB SCART cable via Amazon or wherever, and just try that first.

Hey, thanks for that. The problem doesn't just affect my Japanese DC though, it also affects a PAL one. However that isn't an official retail DC so could it possibly be outputting an NTSC signal?

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A standard UK PAL DC outputs either PAL50 or, for 60Hz optioned games, PAL60 only, not true NTSC, unlike the PS2 for instance. But what a console that "isn't an official retail (PAL) DC" does I wouldn't know. Do you mean it has been chipped or is one of those universal DCs issued to developers etc?

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A standard UK PAL DC outputs either PAL50 or, for 60Hz optioned games, PAL60 only, not true NTSC, unlike the PS2 for instance. But what a console that "isn't an official retail (PAL) DC" does I wouldn't know. Do you mean it has been chipped or is one of those universal DCs issued to developers etc?

No, I have a few Dreamcast Cabinets/Pods and the PAL one is out of one of those so it could be the console is modified in someway.