Super Famicom - Black and White

[speedlolita]

Guess that means it has the same RGB values as the US SNES, meaning that a GC cable would work fine.

[nakamura]

Yes PAL GC cables work too. I used mine.

[Mayhem]

Maybe your AV sockets are set to "AV" or something.

I know my old Panny TV could let you set the SCART sockets to RGB/AV/S-Video for example.

This is entirely possible, and what tripped me up initially using my JPN Cube on my previous CRT (and why I joined this site!) as you could change the AV channels between accepting composite and S-video. If the AV is set to S-video and plug in a composite signal, you got b/w.

[davesol]

thanks for all the help, will buy a GC cable

[davesol]

ok, update to this as I've just got round to buying a cable a few weeks ago!

I bought one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Super-Ninten.../dp/B002VLHIFG

I now get a colour picture through but some of the colours look very washed out, in particular browns and blacks come out as virtually white. I've changed every setting I can think of on the TV but it makes no difference so presumably this is the cable?

For example, on Mario Kart the track and mud round the track are indistinguishable as both come out as white






Thanks (again) for any help

[Hohum]

Going by the link you've provided, you've bought the wrong cable. The one you have is only suitable for PAL SNES consoles, nothing else. The reason for this is that a PAL SNES requires a cable with no capacitors on the RGB lines to display colours correctly, whereas NTSC SNES/SFC (and PAL Gamecube) require the capacitors to be present. You need to buy another cable unfortunately.

[speedlolita]

Yeah, maybe send it back to consolesgoods and get a GC cable instead.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/eviltim/gamescart/gamescart.htm#snes

Differences are here.

[davesol]

Thanks (again) everyone for your help. I've sent it back to the guy i bought it from and he is going to solder some capacitors into it for me