Ziggy587 wrote:Firebrandx wrote:At any rate, my XRGB-mini arrived yesterday, and I was able to confirm that the original model SNES 1-CHIP-03 does not have csync hooked up. My serial number indicates I have one of the original production lines of the 1-CHIP-03, so this would mean likely all 1-CHIP-03 original SNES units do not have it hooked up either. Thankfully the mod to hook it up is a simple solder job of one little wire on the motherboard.
That's really weird. It's an NTSC SNES? It has RGB hooked up, but not sync? I wouldn't be able to confirm if this is the case with later revisions. My 1-Chip SNES is actually a PAL model that I hardwired to be NTSC. It wouldn't surprise me if PAL had sync hooked up but NTSC didn't.
To clarify:
I had read reports that NTSC 1-CHIP-03 consoles don't have CSYNC hooked up (you can still use RGB on it with 'sync-on-composite-video', but this is an inferior RGB method). So when I got my XRGB-mini, I was able to test mine and sure enough, CSYNC wasn't active. Rather than settle for using 'sync-on-composite-video', I opted to do the wire soldering mod job to hook up CSYNC on the motherboard. Well worth it. Also to further clarify, the 1-CHIP-01 and -02 do in fact have CSYNC active, so this mod is only required on the -03 revision.
As for PAL format, I have no experience with those, so I don't know what the status is on if CSYNC is supported and on what versions.