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I recently acquired the Extron IN1508 because I wanted to push my Atari 2600 clone (Sears Video Arcade II) on through the OSSC and I’ve only ever modded it for S-Video output. It’s got two composite and two s-video inputs along with a flurry of other higher quality connections that all route through a 15 pin d-sub connector that will plug in the OSSC’s AV3.

After some playing around with it to learn the setup I’ve been pretty pleased with the outcome. The nice thing is they can come fairly cheap on eBay. I only paid about 33 bucks for mine including shipping.

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Of course he should get a proper RGB cable for it to get the best possible picture, but I was offering it as more of a temporary solution that works. It’s not uncommon to have at least one of those Madcatz-branded squids with rgb/s-video/composite connectors on one end and adapters for Xbox/360 and PS2/PS3 on the other lying around in a big box of old cables.

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If you have a multi-adapter (PS2/PS3/Xbox/Xbox 360) plug that has both component and a composite output I’ve found that you can use it to get RGB out of the PS1 by plugging in the composite line in place of the green one on the OSSC, which will give it the sync on green that AV2’s RGsB is trying to find.

I guess if you had a plug that was just the PS1/2/3 that had outputs for component and composite both you could use that as well, it just needs to tap pin 6 on the A/V connector would offer the sync.

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@manashne

Plug the Royal Mail tracking number into USPS’s system. It will transfer over to their hands for customs and sorting, and it looks like it gets passed off to UPS after that. I haven’t received mine yet, but I got the dispatch notice on the 18th, and this morning UPS sent me a notification that I should expect a package tomorrow. Since it landed in customs in New York and you’re in the Eastern US I’d be surprised if you didn’t receive yours today.

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I can find a couple of possible solutions, but not having needed to go this route I can’t personally vouch for either option.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BXMOREI
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-HDMI-DisplayPort-Converter-Adapter/dp/B0144NS4Z6

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@paulb_nl It’s possible that it was a bad supply as it was an aftermarket unit, but the wavy image came with a darker horizontal band like you see when recording a CRT with a video camera where the refresh rates don’t sync.

But yeah, all I did was steal the plug off the US power supply and used it as a replacement for the plug on the European power supply that I’d received when I bought my GameCube.

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You don’t happen to be mixing formats (NTSC/PAL) for your sources, do you? I had a similar enough issue with the wavy/discouloured image where the culprit was my PAL Gamecube being a part of an otherwise fully NTSC setup. I know there are a lot of folks that swear that you can use a US power supply on a European Gamecube without any interference, but I had to splice a US plug on the European power supply because the 60Hz power and the 50Hz output was creating a visible issue on everything that passed through the OSSC (SCART/Component/VGA).

It might not be the case for you, but I didn’t have any issues after adapting the 50Hz power brick.

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I’ve used cables from both retrogamingcables.co.uk and http://stores.ebay.com/retroaccessories/ and I’d personally recommend retro_console_accessories work.

Both manufacturers supply an extremely clean signal without any of that SCART buzz I hear people worry about, but I give the build quality edge to retro_console_accessories. The boot on my PAL Gamecube’s SCART I received from retrogamingcables.co.uk started degrading where the cable connects to it rather rapidly, and it’s not like I’ve moved it around to plug and unplug it even a dozen times since getting it, but I’ve used my SNES cable from retro_console_accessories on my SNES and N64 with repeated plugging/unplugging and it’s still fresh.

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