TV RGB mod thread

[MarkOZLAD]

Ok you can now go back to listing my LG CA-20F80/MC-84A chassis mod as successful again! I found some missing components, soldered them in and it worked!

Details have been updated in thread LG CA-20F80/Chassis MC84A RGB Scart Mod Almost complete...

For people looking for a shortcut to RGB modding this could be the answer for them. Just install a scart port, replace some missing components and change the service menu and you are done.

While I'm here I'd just like to say to Marcos that I really enjoyed helping him with his Phillips 21GX1669 mod. I am still learning a lot about this stuff and going through that process has taken me to another level. It turns out the Jungle I/C on his TV was identical when it came to RGB blanking and this gave me the encouragement to revisit my TV. Marcos said getting my TV working was my reward for helping him and I tend to agree. That and a new friend.

[buttersoft]

On my rgb modded sony trinitron the picture is awesome but I have the crank the brightness down a good amount for it to look better but then it effects my other consoles as they end up way to dark.

Is there anything I can add that can decrease the brightness in the mod,was thinking maybe some potentiometers.

Just a thought, but does your Jungle IC want 0.7Vp-p or lower, like 05Vp-p?

[MarkOZLAD]

On my rgb modded sony trinitron the picture is awesome but I have the crank the brightness down a good amount for it to look better but then it effects my other consoles as they end up way to dark.

Is there anything I can add that can decrease the brightness in the mod,was thinking maybe some potentiometers.

Just a thought, but does your Jungle IC want 0.7Vp-p or lower, like 05Vp-p?

Generally the Sony's are 0.7Vp-p. The ones I've modded I've noted the exact same behaviour, definitely brighter from the RGB mod input than when I switch back to composite.

Not sure what the answer is. I did decrease the screen voltage on mine, this decreases the RGB brightness but the composite has the same corresponding change so doesn't solve the issue.

[Syntax]

On my rgb modded sony trinitron the picture is awesome but I have the crank the brightness down a good amount for it to look better but then it effects my other consoles as they end up way to dark.

Is there anything I can add that can decrease the brightness in the mod,was thinking maybe some potentiometers.

Just a thought, but does your Jungle IC want 0.7Vp-p or lower, like 05Vp-p?

Generally the Sony's are 0.7Vp-p. The ones I've modded I've noted the exact same behaviour, definitely brighter from the RGB mod input than when I switch back to composite.

Not sure what the answer is. I did decrease the screen voltage on mine, this decreases the RGB brightness but the composite has the same corresponding change so doesn't solve the issue.

It's as simple as increasing the value of the termination resistors.
These Sony's seem to look better with 100ohm resistors instead of 75ohm.

[soviet9922]

Hi guys im hacking rgb into a jvc tm-h150cg.
Need to get into service mode if someone knows how ?.
Also the service manual could be great if somebody know where to download it ?.
I'm documenting the process here http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=60736
Also going to do a 17" chasis jvc next the guts look almost the same.

[MarkOZLAD]

It's as simple as increasing the value of the termination resistors.
These Sony's seem to look better with 100ohm resistors instead of 75ohm.

Cheers for another great tip. Will give that a shot on the Sony TV I will mod this weekend.

[Syntax]

It's as simple as increasing the value of the termination resistors.
These Sony's seem to look better with 100ohm resistors instead of 75ohm.

Cheers for another great tip. Will give that a shot on the Sony TV I will mod this weekend.

I should of asked if its just this tv thats being bright for you or if you use more than 1 console on it via RGB.

Could always be the console or the cable not having proper 75ohm terminations. Plug in the cable to the console(turned off) and check the scart end RGB lines to ground for 75ohm.

But if you have a few RGB consoles and a few RGB tv's and this Sony is the only one being a bitch then increase them terminations.

[Pikkon]

Thank's for the info Syntax,will definitely give this a try.

With using my snes,genesis and saturn they were all way to bright and the rgb cables are wired correctly.

[nakedarthur]

I finally got together with the TV tech tonight and I'm happy to report the KV-27S42 was successfully modded. Amazingly, it worked on the first try! Huge props to everyone for the great information here and thanks to MarkOZLAD for answering my questions. I posted a small gallery on imgur here, including an updated diagram of some of the things I was questioning.

[MarkOZLAD]

I finally got together with the TV tech tonight and I'm happy to report the KV-27S42 was successfully modded. Amazingly, it worked on the first try! Huge props to everyone for the great information here and thanks to MarkOZLAD for answering my questions. I posted a small gallery on imgur here, including an updated diagram of some of the things I was questioning.

Glad it worked. Pleased to help.

[nakedarthur]

I ran into one slight hitch after getting the TV into my setup. Genesis, SNES, PS1, Saturn, PC Engine, and even my GroovyMAME machine all work perfectly, but having a little trouble with my NESRGB. It has one of the 3d printed ports with the SNES style connectors, so I got one of retro_console_accessories pro coaxial SNES cables for it. It worked fine on my previous setup, but with the modded TV I'm getting a very dim pictures in bright scenes. Strangely, it seems to work perfectly on the darker ones..

Edit: Looks like SNES cables have 220uf capacitors in line, guessing that's not playing too well with the other caps..

Edit2: Removed the 220uf caps from the Scart head but it still looks the same..

[Syntax]

For nes rgb cables make sure there are no components inline. Nothing but wires. All resistors, terminations and caps are in the NES.

That picture has me stumped tho. Maybe Tim has seen it before.

[nakedarthur]

For nes rgb cables make sure there are no components inline. Nothing but wires. All resistors, terminations and caps are in the NES.

That picture has me stumped tho. Maybe Tim has seen it before.

Thanks for the info. As far as I can tell everything has been removed on the SCART side, but I'm not sure what she has in the mutli-connector side. Is there any way to open those without destroying them? I was just looking at this page on Tim's site and it says to remove 75ohm resistors from SNES cables. I'm guessing if it has those they must be on the multi-connector side? I'm thinking I might just put the caps back in and see if I can get her to send me another cable with nothing inline haha..

[Ryoandr]

you can try using the composite out of the NESRGB since it's encoded from RGB and it's only 1 wire.

[cyborc]

I succesfully completed this mod on a Sharp 27sc260 tv. It already had component and it looked good with the retrotek RGB to component converter but I was curious to see what RGB looked like on the TV. There is a definite difference in color but I imagine I could've done some service menu tweaks to get the component colors looking close or even identical to RGB. Here's a few comparison pics.

Rgb on the top, Component on bottom. It looks like there's some jailbars there but that's just the camera.

Spoiler

[mikejmoffitt]

The NES RGB problem shown in that picture is a result of the image being shifted far left. As a result, the overscan border color (blue, in the case of the Super Mario Bros sky) is being used as the clamping level for black. The TV subtracts the black level sample from the rest of the line, so if your black level has image data there you'll get strange color subtraction effects in the line. You need to use the service menu to shift the image right, or change the clamping delay. If you have other inputs to try like S-video or Component, try using those for sync.

[nakedarthur]

The NES RGB problem shown in that picture is a result of the image being shifted far left. As a result, the overscan border color (blue, in the case of the Super Mario Bros sky) is being used as the clamping level for black. The TV subtracts the black level sample from the rest of the line, so if your black level has image data there you'll get strange color subtraction effects in the line. You need to use the service menu to shift the image right, or change the clamping delay. If you have other inputs to try like S-video or Component, try using those for sync.

Damn, that sucks! I already have HPOS as far as it will go right (0). I guess I will look into using S-video instead of Composite for sync then. It was bothering me anyway to be honest, the picture still seemed about 3/4 inch too far left even after the max adjustment. Thanks a bunch for the info!

[MarkOZLAD]

The NES RGB problem shown in that picture is a result of the image being shifted far left. As a result, the overscan border color (blue, in the case of the Super Mario Bros sky) is being used as the clamping level for black. The TV subtracts the black level sample from the rest of the line, so if your black level has image data there you'll get strange color subtraction effects in the line. You need to use the service menu to shift the image right, or change the clamping delay. If you have other inputs to try like S-video or Component, try using those for sync.

Damn, that sucks! I already have HPOS as far as it will go right (0). I guess I will look into using S-video instead of Composite for sync then. It was bothering me anyway to be honest, the picture still seemed about 3/4 inch too far left even after the max adjustment. Thanks a bunch for the info!

Out of interest, how is the horizontal position for the other consoles?

[nakedarthur]

Out of interest, how is the horizontal position for the other consoles?

It's definitely a little too far left even with it at zero. Looking at the Genesis grid in 240p Test Suite I could see just outside of the overscan area on the right, and it was near the inside edge of the overscan for the left side. It's not too terrible but in Lightening Force for example, if I move my ship as far as it will go to the left side of the screen I could maybe only see like a quarter of it.

[Syntax]

Had a tricky one today.
LG Flatron.

It seemed to have provision for scart but many components missing and jungle RGB input lines and blanking grounded.

Wired the set like normal and blanking was doing nothing.
Checked the service menu and enabled scart and bam rgb.
But it seemed blanking did not need power. If grounded my rgb injection would stop and if left floating "high" the rgb would blank.
Issue is if I leave it floating no other video inputs can be used till scart is turned off in service.

I didn't want a switch for it so I pulled out a 10k pot and wired it like "5v-blank-ground" turned to full resistance then turned on the set and swept the pot till my RGB picture came through over the comp one.

So the aim was to find out how low I had to pull the blanking pin before blanking would stop and increase the pot till it just blanked,( mainly because i could not find data on what the jungle expects so lowest volts is best) read the pots values and remake it with resistors.

The values I ended up with were
ground - 2.5k - blanking - 7.5k - console 5v

Works as it should now. Unplug it and watch tv or use composite, which I will do neither of.. I just like things to work as expected.

[Syntax]

Just finished another tricky one
Sony Trinitron
If you cut the blanking and let it float you get RGB blanking but with the menu VIDEO 1 on screen also.
If you apply voltage at around 3v it changes to composite.
But if you ground blanking you get RGB without the OSD always displaying the channel number

EDIT Grounding blanking makes the OSD barely visable but stops the TV from turning on ffs..


Update
Ok so I figured out the bloody thing.
Sony CXA2139S 
Around 3v or more to the ext blanking pin turns on RGB.
Pressing DISPLAY on the remote removes the OSD..
Seriously WTF?
Why would Sony make it so every time you turn on the TV you have to press DISPLAY on the remote to make the OSD piss off?
If you didn't have a remote you'd be screwed.

Funny thing to note, Ive been getting confused between RGB and composite today on a few tvs and I finally figured out why.
I'm using an old SNES to test not my Famicon Jr.

The difference in RGB quality on these 2 consoles is night and day.
To my eye an old SNES looks closer to composite than it does RGB due to the blur

Sweet picture tho

[MarkOZLAD]

Had a tricky one today.
LG Flatron.

It seemed to have provision for scart but many components missing and jungle RGB input lines and blanking grounded.

Wired the set like normal and blanking was doing nothing.
Checked the service menu and enabled scart and bam rgb.
But it seemed blanking did not need power. If grounded my rgb injection would stop and if left floating "high" the rgb would blank.
Issue is if I leave it floating no other video inputs can be used till scart is turned off in service.

I didn't want a switch for it so I pulled out a 10k pot and wired it like "5v-blank-ground" turned to full resistance then turned on the set and swept the pot till my RGB picture came through over the comp one.

So the aim was to find out how low I had to pull the blanking pin before blanking would stop and increase the pot till it just blanked,( mainly because i could not find data on what the jungle expects so lowest volts is best) read the pots values and remake it with resistors.

The values I ended up with were
ground - 2.5k - blanking - 7.5k - console 5v

Works as it should now. Unplug it and watch tv or use composite, which I will do neither of.. I just like things to work as expected.

Was the jungle in this one a VCT49xyl? Chassis MC-049a?

[Syntax]

Nope it was a Philips TDA9361.
The TV is actually brand new, I had to take it out of the box today. Cost a neat $20.
The composite on it is so clean I have to look twice to tell it apart from the new RGB input.

Still having issues with this Sony jungle refusing to remove the OSD from picture.
http://www.datasheetbank.com/datasheet/ ... 2139S.html

EDIT - All sorted

[Syntax]

Finished up today on a cool old Philips set I found at the tip.
It was rusty and full of mud and worms but the speakers sound great and the picture was nice.
Had to OSD hack this one as there was no external RGB input.
Jungle was a Philips TDA8361 http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-p ... A8361.html

The blanking required sweeping a 10k pot with ground and 5v, wouldn't work with just 5v across a 10k pot.
End result was 2x2.4k resistors as a voltage divider to the blanking. would of been sitting around 3v I never checked.

3 tv's finished in a day I think I should sleep..

[cyborc]

You're doing the lord's work, Syntax!

[mikejmoffitt]

Syntax I'd like to add your sets to the list, but I need model numbers!

[Ikaruga11]

Any modders in Ohio?

[Syntax]

You're doing the lord's work, Syntax!

Cthulhu? :p

I swear you can hear the screens squeak with joy the first time you let them play a game via their RGB inputs


As far as adding sets to a list I'm not sure how well that will work out for other.

I think a list of Jungle ics and how to handle each one is more appropriate. More often than not I find the same jungle in different branded units.

Maybe for brands write a short paragraph for each like.
Sony
display button is a bitch.
Sony tv's with L2Fil can be horizontal tuned.

Lg
Most units have circuit board layout compatible with a scart header. After installing it's usually just a service menu edit.

Philips chips needs divided power not just 5v and a resistor.

Something like that. Already so much info is lost in this thread.

Also is have to open up the sets to accurately show what I did to make each one work, my memory not good enough against to 10 sets I've done.

Got 2 Sony's a rear projection screen and a quintrix to do today. First Quintrix...

Really though once you have the basics under your belt you can mod any set.
I look at jungles now and find 3 similar caps,follow the traces to 3 termination resistors and just know that's RGB input. Data sheets help a tonne though.

It usually just blanking that's a bitch. I may take some pictures and do a short tutorial on the 3/4 different ways jungles accept blanking.

Not sure how much longer I'll be doing this.
The original intention was to find thrown out tv's and mod them till I have a sweet one PER console.
But I've recently lined up about 90× 28 inch RGB crt wall installation sets. All with fk all use but case scratches as they are ex rentals.

Plan is to make a crt wall and put that fake emulator loader movie everyone puts on their front ends to shame.

[MarkOZLAD]

But I've recently lined up about 90× 28 inch RGB crt wall installation sets. All with fk all use but case scratches as they are ex rentals.

Did I read that correctly? 90?

[Syntax]

But I've recently lined up about 90× 28 inch RGB crt wall installation sets. All with fk all use but case scratches as they are ex rentals.

Did I read that correctly? 90?

I know right, I'm only going to grab 9 but even that's too many. PM me if your keen and in NSW.