sega saturn rgb

[dogman91]

You can watch this seller for Saturn RGB cables that show up from time to time if you want to save yourself the trouble: http://www.ebay.com/sch/retro_console_a ... pg=&_from=

Her cables are the best and made for NTSC

[Anapan]

Her cables are the best and made for NTSC

Agreed, I've bought many SCART cables from her. They're very well made. She also makes PAL ones, so make sure you get the right one for your needs.

[eccoboy]

Do the cables you refer to have a separate audio out? That's what I wanted but they weren't/aren't available anywhere so I had to buy this adapter http://www.ebay.com/itm/Scart-Adapter-w ... 2ec23e1405

I tried this cable first http://www.ebay.com/itm/RGB-Scart-Cable ... 257e695665
which was terrible. I had trouble seeing much improvement over composite (to be fair I hadn't adjusted the converter yet) but I sent it back because it caused a very loud buzz that intensified with different colors on screen. Seems like a grounding or shielding issue in the cable. Less noise through the Dreamcast but still bad.

I'm using one now from this seller http://stores.ebay.com/thehappygamer/ that is sega saturn only and works much better. The buzzing sound is there but very faint. I blame that on SCART design but I'm sure with better construction the buzz could be eliminated. So far my experience with SCART/RGB has not been pleasant. I just realized last night that the audio channels are swapped! Don't know if it's the adapter or cable but if the new converter doesn't perform properly I'm getting out of the SCART business and settling for S-Video.

[eccoboy]

Replacement converter performs properly. Oranges are orange. Looks great. And no adjustments were necessary. The SCART connection is a little tighter too but still not great. At some point I'll get rid of the pass through adapter and add audio out from the converter but for now I'll leave it. I've spent too much time fixing this Saturn already.

[Billkwando]

I just wanted to mention a few things for folks having similar problems. I have the universal scart cable (has a green Y on the multi-cable connector) and I was able to fix my bright screen buzzing problems by getting a different scart stereo breakout box. I was using the one from Specialty AV (where I got the YUV converter from) but it made my image green tinted, unless you reverse the switch (which of course disabled the sound) and had horrible buzzing (on Radiant Silvergun, for example). I got a blue one from an ebay seller (kenable_ltd) and it was $3 with 60 cents shipping. It took forever to get here but now that I see how well it works, I'm gonna order a few spares.

Good one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCART-THROUGH-A ... 1577wt_993

Bad one (for me, anyway):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Scart-to-Audio- ... _545wt_959

Also, about the color on the YUV box. I know that ideally they should come pretweaked, but I made a video explaining exactly how to do it, and I highly recommend playing with your settings a bit, cos most likely they spent 5 minutes setting it up....so it probably doesn't look as good as it possibly could.

After having adjusted my own, I'm happy to have that level of flexibility to make it look exactly how I want.

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYN906grLsM

Also, if you wanna get super precise and use color filters with your adjustments, and you have a Dreamcast or Sega CD, check out the 240p Test Suite:

http://junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php/240p_test_suite

Hopefully anyone who finds this thread through google (like I did) will find this info helpful.