Sega Saturn / Nintendo S-Video cable help...

[Whacka]

Hello,
I live in a PAL region and recently bought a Saturn modchip and a Nintendo S-Video cable from the racketboy store.

Fortunately the modchip installed fine. However, I also wanted to make a 50/60hz switch so that I could patch NTSC games and play them properly. The guide which I followed [here] said to solder the switch to the SW4 jumpers. On my Saturn there are no jumpers here (no SW1 jumpers either). My Saturn is a Model 2 Saturn with a 32-pin CD unit and a VA9 motherboard. I was wondering if there was any solution to my predicament?

The other (hopefully more simple) problem is to do with the S-Video cable. It only outputs in black and white, however the composite plug on the same cable works fine. I have tested it with my SNES and N64 on two different televisions (CRT/LCD). It doesn't output any picture on my GameCube for some reason, but I don't really care. Is the cable broken or is this a regional issue?

Thanks in advance!

[AARST]

Sadly, I happen to have found the following on this website:

"The PAL [GameCube] console outputs RGB but not S-video and the NTSC model outputs S-video but not RGB."

One positive note: I bought an RGB SCART cable just yesterday and it looks really good. If you're European your TV should support SCART and RGB no problem and you should be able to find these cables somewhere, though I don't think Nintendo licensed RGB cables exist.

[Whacka]

Thanks, but none of my TVs support SCART...

I may be assuming/wrong a bit here, but doesn't S-Video split the signal into greyscale and color (luma and chroma)? So is part of it faulty?

Also, after using my modchip a bit further I've noticed that it can be somewhat temperamental and sometimes works fine but sometimes crashes the Saturn to a blank screen (reset won't work) on loading the game at the bootup seqence, after the SEGA logo and sometimes ingame (during loading, after FMV's). It could just be crashing because I've been playing NTSC backups at 50hz or because I haven't been burning the games properly though (imgBurn, 10x, fairly generic but reliable discs). Can anyone offer some insight?

Once again, thanks in advance.