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Hiya, second topic in one day... *cough* Anyway. My issue is, I suspect, due to a low quality cable. I've got the SNES hooked up to my telly via RGB SCART and the picture is reasonably sound, save for a moire effect on solid colour. A small annoyance. But the sound is where it gets truly irritating. The brighter the screen, the louder an underlying buzz occurs. I saw this problem elsewhere described as crosstalk and improperly shielded cabling, but I'm not sure... If anyone knows where in the UK I could get a GOOD cable that would be grand.

Of course, this is if it's actually the cable.

I'd try a friends TV before buying a new cable, just to humor yourself.

This is just a fact of life I'm afraid. I have a very good quality SCART cable for SNES and yeah it produces a buzz unless you mute the audio. The price you pay for RGB.

Satoshi_Matrix wrote:This is just a fact of life I'm afraid. I have a very good quality SCART cable for SNES and yeah it produces a buzz unless you mute the audio. The price you pay for RGB.

I know in Japan they released an official RGB cable; do you have that one?

Its unshielded cables.

I worked around this by breaking out the audio direct from the console. I now have 2 phono/RCA jacks on the console that is audio only.

Never send the audio down the same cable as the video = problem worked around

Yeah upon further investigating my cable, that's indeed what's wrong with it. It's both not shielded or insulated. you need a cable that's both. You can either buy a heavy duty Nintendo SCART cable or desolder both ends of yours and then replace the whole cable part with a quality VGA cable for example.

That's what I plan on doing. Remember that Japan SCART is very different from Euro SCART so you can't simply import the Japanese one!

Is a compromise getting a cable with a breakout box a little down the SCART cable? I'm not handy with modding things... Only thing though, I have a suspicion that my TV will be looking for SCART audio and not for an external audio source. Not entirely sure though, but I doubt with the RCA cables that it'll be an automatic transition. Hrm.

I only followed about half of that, but your problem is that the SCART to SNES cable you have is not insulated or shielded, thus the audio interference. You need a QUALITY cable. I'm going to mod mine with an old VGA cable; results should be good.

It appears I have the same problem with this cable: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Nintendo- ... 2eb81fca1c

The other cables I have from this seller don't have the buzzing issue. It's very loud during bright portions of games, like when a menu screen pops up, and it greatly effects the enjoyment of playing.

If anyone here has a North American RGB SCART cable for SNES that doesn't have this issue can you point me to where you bought it from (if you didn't mod it yourself)?

dogman91 wrote:If anyone here has a North American RGB SCART cable for SNES that doesn't have this issue can you point me to where you bought it from (if you didn't mod it yourself)?

I don't think this exists. Do you mean a European RGB Scart SNES cable? If so, I bought one off of Ebay and it works great. Sorry, but it's been years and I have no idea who I bought it from.