SNES s-vid color problem

[nateup2]

Just got the Nintendo s-vid cable. Works fine with our N64, but SNES color is all effed up. Its all yellow tinted (the color and the console), if that helps.

The SNES is pretty beat up with about half the case broken off. My guess is that I will need to shell out the ridiculous price for a new used SNES, but if I can postpone that longer, I will.

Is anyone familiar with this problem?

THANKS!

[Zer]

I personally would suggest getting a modded Xbox or something and using emulators, but if you just gotta have the dog bone controller try Craigslist. I got a Dreamcast and a NES for $30 and see SNESs with games going for around that price.

[fox099]

your cable may have lost its shielding, but if it works fine with the 64 id say you just need a snes. is the image still bad with composite out? there are alot of things that could make the image go awry, including running the cable past a magnet or any other large electric device...

[nateup2]

Thanks for the suggestions so far.
I do emulate basically everything on my pc, but its just not the same and yes... I need the dogbone (hahaha). I also noticed that my games emulated through my pc to tv s-video cable do not look as good as the actual system/games connected to the same tv with s-video.

Anyways, yeah, the picture is fine when I use the regular composite cables and the s-vid cable does work fine with the N64. Considering these variables I would guess that there is something wrong with the SNES video signal, specific to the s-vid, which seemed really weird to me.

I will prob have to grab up a new SNES. I just thought somebody may have had experience with this and had a fix it method.

[fox099]

i dont know what the pin-out of the snes is, but what I would suggest is try to find it, find the luminance and chromiance channels, and use a multimeter to check the voltage. if its above about 1.5v, you probably have an open circuit. by then though, you will probably see soem visual indication of error! if nothing works get a new snes, they run about 15 bucks on craigslist!

[fox099]

i dont know what the pin-out of the snes is, but what I would suggest is try to find it, find the luminance and chromiance channels, and use a multimeter to check the voltage. if its above about 1.5v, you probably have an open circuit. by then though, you will probably see soem visual indication of error! if nothing works get a new snes, they run about 15 bucks on craigslist!

[bacteria]

Here is the pinout:

[nateup2]

Thanks.

I think I'll get a new SNES now!

hahah