Redifer wrote:I will be very interested to see Hobie's results with the different power supplies.
Not gonna happen tonight, but I realized I'll be able to test all 3 versions of the SNES as I have a lockless one with the integrated sound. So 1A, 1B, and the mini.
Just to clairify, I can see the line all the time on DKC, also I don't see the line at all during the menu and gameplay of Top Gear. I did see it once during the title screen but that was it. Oh, and the line on my SMW is not faint it is quite easy to see. My SNES seems to be on the worse end of this problem When I got it in the mail it was covered in Cheetoes cheese, had a scuff mark on top, and the bottom left corner was chipped. I think the previous owner dropped it from a height and didn't care about taking care of stuff. Thank goodness for Mr. Clean Magic Eraser! It looks pretty good now, sans the chip which you can't see anyway unless you look at it from the bottom. I didn't buy it knowing that it was in this condition by the way. Beware of buying consoles online, its a crapshoot!
I have also tried the SNES on RF and I could still see the line, no better or worse than S-Video. I've tried my system on a flat screen CRT, several old tube tvs with just antenna connections, and on a LCD HDTV. The line appears on all of them, no better and no worse. I think this rules out the type of connection used to connect the SNES to the tv and also the tvs used to display it. I think its something internal with the system but what that is I have no idea. I know that I never noticed this line as a kid when I would play SNES but I never actually owned one back in the day so I never really played it that much. The Sega Genesis was my console of choice back in the day.
Next thing I'm going to try is testing for interference from inside the system itself. After that I will try to run the SNES's RGB through a different video encoder, the CXA1645, to see if that helps.
Ziggy587 wrote:Perhaps a SFC or PAL SNES user can try and test this out a little. I have a PAL SNES actually, but I have no idea if it has the vertical line problem. I haven't used it much, yet.
Using a Super Famicom would most likely yield the same results since the innards are exactly the same as the SNES. The only real differences between the SFC and SNES are the cases and RF modulators.
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Ziggy587 wrote:Perhaps a SFC or PAL SNES user can try and test this out a little. I have a PAL SNES actually, but I have no idea if it has the vertical line problem. I haven't used it much, yet.
Using a Super Famicom would most likely yield the same results since the innards are exactly the same as the SNES. The only real differences between the SFC and SNES are the cases and RF modulators.
You took that out of context. I was saying, maybe a SFC or PAL SNES user can test out different AC adapters (because they have a different plug than the American SNES).
I'm hearing reports that even the clone hardware does this. It has been seen on the FC3 Plus, the RetroN3, the RetroDuo and the FC Twin, all of which share the same clone chipset. Strange.
When I got it in the mail it was covered in Cheetoes cheese, had a scuff mark on top, and the bottom left corner was chipped. I think the previous owner dropped it from a height and didn't care about taking care of stuff. Thank goodness for Mr. Clean Magic Eraser! It looks pretty good now, sans the chip which you can't see anyway unless you look at it from the bottom. I didn't buy it knowing that it was in this condition by the way. Beware of buying consoles online, its a crapshoot!
