wwwyzzerdd wrote:Well thank you. I just didn't see anyone else suggest trying pins 1, and 24, instead of 23, that's what I ended up trying to figure out, and that's what ultimately led to my success in doing this mod.
Yeah I suggested it a long while back because people were like "my picture's too dark" and the luma line is shared with s-video anyway. Next thing I know my suggestion became the "standard wiring" and it somehow fixes all sorts of issues people were having.
According to one of my clients some guy on ebay actually tried my snes video encoder bypass mod and apparently it made then annoying translucent bar in the middle of the screen disappear. The snes I did the mod to never had that bar which is why I never realized my mod fixes that problem. A lot of my video circuit ideas seem to clear up other issues as a side effect. If you engineer things properly quite often you'll accidentally clear up other issues. A lot of people have been skeptical about my mods and that's good for them. The people who hired me to mod their systems have shown nothing but amazement at how clean the video looks and how nice the audio sounds.
Simply put, if you're feeding your tv a signal that's too weak chances are you'll have issues. The original component video mod will work fine with encoders that don't require video amps on the outputs, but a lot of snes systems used encoders that do need amps to get the signals strong enough. We should just be glad that the solution to the snes component video is only just an amp, the rgb nes took a lot more effort to get a pixel perfect image.
In most cases these mods start with some guy wiring it up on his console, having it work fine, and then it gets assumed that the mod will work with all of the consoles and all tvs. Luckily all snes systems will already contain the circuit to get the luma to the right strength for whatever encoder is built into the console. The other two lines are just colour, but without a luma signal that's strong enough your tv will have issues. Once you get a stable luma line your picture won't have issues so you'll be able to install colour amps or just turn the colour strength up on your tv.
And still...externally encoding the rgb from a onechip ppu snes into component video will give you a MUUUUUCH sharper picture.. Unfortunately the video encoders found in the onechip ppu snes systems don't generate component video. This's why I never bothered announcing the component video option when I found out about it before someone else discovered it, there's already a better option out there, it just costs more money.
