Hi, I've got two model 1 (oval button) Saturns. I'm currently trying to find out why I'm getting such a poor display with both of them. I've got two different RGB SCART cables and my hd tv supports RGB SCART at 50/60hz.
The problem is that the picture is really quite noisy and in darker graduated bands of colours it's quite 'flickery'. If I didn't know for certain that it was an RGB connection, I'd swear it was composite with the horrid dot crawl and fuzziness.
I've also tried both machines via an external SCART -> 720p HDMI upscaler, but that simply puts halo's around the noise artifacts and introduces extra banding around high contrast areas (works well on my PC-Engine though).
It's not the TV, which although just a cheapy, does a great job with other retro stuff (MD, SNES, BBC Master, Speccy etc..) all connected via RGB SCART.
Is there a difference in RGB quality for the various Saturn models? I'd be tempted to get myself a model 2 or even a Japanese model if the output is better.
Saturn RGB out quality?
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Re: Saturn RGB out quality?
My friend's J-region Saturn has the most beautiful clean picture I ever saw from a videogame console using the SCART cable from Consolegoods.co.uk to his Amiga monitor. It's possible your TV is grabbing a Composite signal through your cable. Until he got the cable from Consolegoods, he had a crappy Scart cable that barely worked and gave a horrible picture so he just used the regular composite cable that came with the Saturn.
