Component 480I on your Sega Genesis, Saturn, Master, or DC

[phonedork]

Check out how to get component quality on your Sega with no mods.

 

 

[Spazmonkey]

Meh. If you use something like a JROK, and take the pure RGB and output that as component, it looks much nicer. That looks like s-video from what I can see in the video. When you pull the luma and chroma right from the encoder, there's no bleeding or blur either. I'll throw in a pic so you can see it for yourself, this is one of my mods;

 

 

By the way, it's not hundreds of dollars to get it s-video modded, I do it for $35, and I include region switches, slot filing, LED change, and composite and stereo jacks

[phonedork]

Looks like your Donald is quite grainy! My way is much cleaner. Look at Donald! I took a picture of my TV set and I got that beat. Its a good thing I have tototek cartridge so I can load Donald Duck up. Anyway check it out... You can see clearly it is much better. Oh, and yes its RGB not s-video!

 

[STICH666]

I just want to find a way to get rid of those faint black vertical lines in pretty much every genesis game. Look in the sky in the pic to see what i'm talking about.

Edited June 8, 2009 by STICH666

[STICH666]

VS RGB

 

VS RGB

 

VS RGB

 

VS RGB

 

 

The difference is incredible!

[Spazmonkey]

 

Need.

[gdement]

I've heard lots of talk before about RGB on the Genesis, but what do people hook it up to? I've never seen a TV with RGB inputs.

I know there's adapters for RGB -> Component, but they're expensive. Is that what people are doing?

 

I suppose you could adapt it to a VGA monitor, but you can't use that for anything else, just your modded Genesis.

[CGQuarterly]

I've heard lots of talk before about RGB on the Genesis, but what do people hook it up to? I've never seen a TV with RGB inputs.

I know there's adapters for RGB -> Component, but they're expensive. Is that what people are doing?

 

I suppose you could adapt it to a VGA monitor, but you can't use that for anything else, just your modded Genesis.

 

You cannot display the RGB signal from a console on 99.99% of VGA monitors.

 

What you need is either a Commodore 1084 monitor, or a Sony PVM-XXXX monitor.

 

That being said, it is probably cheaper to buy a RGB -> Component adapter. I personally use a PVM monitor, but that's because I don't mind having a dedicated monitor for classic gaming. PVMs have composite, s-video, and RGB. So you can play just about anything on them, with the exception of the early systems that were RF-only. You can get around that of course by video modding those systems with either AV or s-video mods. Then you are left with just a handful of systems that are unusable, unless you buy an RF demodulator, in which case you can play anything.

 

Chris

[chrisbid]

look for a scart -> component adapter on ebay, there was a seller that had them for a BIN of 45 dollars

[roland p]

The difference is incredible!

The colors on the component pictures look over-saturated. I don't see how the rgb>component transcoder can remove the black bars. There has to be some other way to remove them...