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….and fixed. Did a “Reset Settings” on the profile and switched to passthru – worked first time. Heaven only knows which setting I changed that caused that problem.

(Also, the Youtube tip worked for the burn-in. Thanks @james-f!)

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Hi @James-F – I didn’t think the screen was that bright (the photo makes it seem worse than it is, to be fair) but I’ll have a look and turn it down a bit.

Regards to it not supporting 576i (625i), that’s an assumption on my part. All I know is that if I change the 480i/576i proc setting to “passthru” the game output disappears and 15 seconds later I get a “select source” message on screen as if there’s no input. Could it be that another setting is changing the 625i output so that the TV is seeing it as “out of range” or somesuch?

Will definitely get a burn-in fixer running on the screen now – good tip. Didn’t even think to Youtube it!

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@BuckoA51 – Good to know, thanks!

@nmalinoski – Yeah, I think you might be right. Had a buddy come over and bring his OG Xbox component cable (which looks identical to mine) and there’s a big difference. He appears to have gotten lucky with whichever seller of unbranded cables he got his from! I’ll drop RGC a line and see if they’d be interested in putting together a component cable (while also keeping one eye out for a Monster cable that isn’t $80, just in case!)

Thanks for your help!

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@nmalinoski – Sorry, I wasn’t particularly clear, there. I used Enigmah to alter the region to NTSC M before testing with the SCART. With NTSC M/SCART, it’s 480i or nothing, essentially. Enabling 480p win that configuration and then rebooting, results in the 480p setting changing back to “off.” So I assume the console is limited to 480i/525i over SCART.

With the region set to NTSC M and the console hooked up via component, I can enable 480p or even 720p (not that I need to go that far!) and it all seems to run just fine. There are faint diagonal lines going on in scenes with large blocks of colour, but unless there’s an easy fix for that, I’m not massively bothered by it. 🙂

Just waiting on a Dreamcast RGB cable (since the Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro is kicking up a fuss with the Hanzo and OSSC) and my setup will be complete! 🙂

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Hi @BuckoA51 – I assumed I was running 480p, but having double-checked, it turns out I was running 525i. Try as I might, I couldn’t get the dash to enable 480p over SCART (I don’t know if that’s a limitation of RGB SCART or the Xbox?) so I dug out an Xbox component cable and everything’s looking muuuuuuuch better now in what the OSSC is reporting as 525p.

So if anybody needs a Retro Game Cables Xbox RGB SCART, turns out I kinda have one spare… 😀

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@nmalinoski – All duly noted, and the Dreamcast tip was spot on. I hadn’t set it to DTV 480p and hadn’t even noticed the aspect ratio issue until I did!

Regards to the Xbox – yep, the TV is recognizing it as PAL60 for sure, as opposed to NTSC. It’s modded and I’ve tried forcing NTSC M on the console and for some reason, it defaults back to PAL as soon as I reboot. I might reflash and see how that goes.

@Gummi – Of course, the PS2 is the old PAL squish! I didn’t even think of it! It’s been so long since I’ve actually run into the borders when using a console that it never even crossed my mind. That’s one thing sorted – thanks!

As for the Xbox, what I mean by “rough edges” is that text and other items seem as if they’re “ghosted” almost. I’ve tried to get a better snapshot of the issue…

It’s not the end of the world, but it’s definitely noticeable. In that photo, it almost looks as if most of the letters have drop shadows on them. I assure you that the photo itself isn’t blurred – the blurriness on the screen is the problem I’m talking about! 🙂 I’m not expecting it to be pin-sharp, but if you look at the left edges of the green letters, or the “1” in the line “F: 10,755.25”, you’ll see what I mean. That 1 almost looks like it’s been photographed mid-change while it was counting up or something, but it’s a static number.

The PS2 is far crisper across the board, so I’m thinking there’s some setting on either the OSSC or on the Xbox itself that I need to change to get it up to par.

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