[Jarrah White]

All my SCART leads were purchased from retrogamingcables.co.uk, nothing to fear then?

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Was a personal preference. With consoles that only natively supported sync on composite, I bought SCART cables with build in sync strippers to avoid video noise in my recordings.

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I have no means of loading the 240p Test Suite on my Dreamcast. But I took screenshots of my recordings and measured the RGB levels in PhotoShop. I did not find any appreciable difference in brightness. In any case, on the 480p SCART cables that I’ve used with the Dreamcast, you can tell the brightness has been significantly diminished just by eyeballing it. As I demonstrated in the other thread: https://videogameperfection.com/forums/topic/retrotink-5x-or-ossc-pro-buy-now-or-wait/#post-48399

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Just a heads up, since making this thread, I’ve acquired a device from Retro Upgrades called the VGA2SCART Sync Combiner. It converts RGBHV to RGBS without any loss of brightness. So that’s one weight off my shoulders.

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If you’re using an OSSC, I’d just use RGB SCART. I don’t have a Model 1 Master System, but I’ve used a Master System Converter adapter with my Mega Drive. Originally I used a cheap SCART cable that I found on ebay, it gave me some weird jail bar artifacts. I swapped it out with a SCART cable that I bought from retrogamingcables.co.uk – jail bars gone, no mod required.

Here’s some recordings I did. First with the cheap ebay cable, second with the retrogamingcables Csync cable.

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That’s news to me, whenever I select a profile on mine the settings of that profile do not carry over to a different input. Is there a setting for that which I don’t know about?

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I don’t even know what TTL voltage sync means. All my SCART cables are either sync on composite, sync on luma or C-syinc – either real C-sync or via a builtin sync stripper.

I play Dreamcast using the official VGA adapter, as I showed above with those screenshots I find the resistors used in the Dreamcast SCART cable causes a noticeably drop in brightness compared to VGA.

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Sorry to dig up this old thread, but these profiles all assume RGB is used. On my Dreamcast I use the official VGA adapter with S-video and composite for interlaced mode. Do you have any corresponding PAL profiles for composite and S-video

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Well, here’s another potential issue. From the product description…

RGB SCART cables preferably use 75 ohm sync-on-luma or sync on composite. CSYNC directly from a console with the appropriate attenuation will generally work. Do not use TTL CSYNC or anything with a sync stripper in it.

That’ll probably break it for me. My RGB modified N64 uses a GameCube SCART lead with a built-in sync-stripper. So it won’t work with the 5X, unless I switch back to using S-video.

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There’s absolutely no reason why using composite sync rather than separate sync would do that. I suspect a cable/adapter problem if that’s what you’re seeing.

I had purchased a Dreamcast SCART cable from retrogamingcables.co.uk, previously I had used the official HKT-8100 VGA adapter. When I complained about the brightness loss, I was told it was something to do with the resistors needed to lower the voltage. Just for comparison, here’s a capture test I made before returning it. These were made by feeding the Dreamcast 480p signal into the OSSC with an mClassic attached. First with the official VGA adapter and second with the SCART cable.

That I can’t tell you, I do have an Amiga so I’ll test it but I’ve not managed to secure one for myself yet, let alone any for resale!

I’m in no hurry to buy an Amiga computer, but the PAL systems I own include a PS1, PS2, SNES, N64, Saturn, AV-modified NES top loader, and an original Xbox. I own a GameCube and Wii too, but I have HDMI adapters for both. Can you check how well the RetroTINK 5X handles these using RGB SCART?

That’s another thing too I’ve read about the 5X, I heard its more geared for people who use the HD Retrovision component cables rather an SCART leads.

EDIT: I misread your post, sorry. I see you don’t own a RetroTINK 5X yet.

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OK, strange that my TV and secondary scaler didn’t like the 1080p signal coming off it.

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Here’s a thought: will the OSSC Pro model come with RCA audio inputs?

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No idea why my account keeps getting locked. I keep getting a scare thinking I’ve been banned or something.

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Are you trying to play Wii games or GameCube games? If you’re primary need for a Wii is to play GameCube games and the Wii’s output is unsatisfactory, maybe a GameCube might be a better option.

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You’ll need one of these or a similar 3.5mm to RCA adapter to use the component cables’ audio jacks.

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