superg wrote:That was rude. Return the unit, no kidding?
One month passed, no single message from you. I've been extremely busy these days / weeks / months and yet I've managed to find the time to take out my oscilloscope and SNES US unit from the storage and do measurements just to debug _YOURS_ problem? And guess what I've found - I've found no problem. I wasted two evenings testing this and that and SNES works fine without lm1881. Obviously poor mods and incorrect cables may be unsupported, it's impossible to cover everything. I'm trying to do my best but if you don't cooperate I can't do anything. If you don't know how your cables are wired, you shouldn't buy the switch. This is retro baby, this is RGB, you're supposed to know the basics of it.
As of now it doesn't look like you want to solve your problem, it looks like you just borrow the switch for a month to try it.
What a disgrace, I'm wasting so much time to try to solve those "issues" and in 99% cases there are problems with console / cable / brain / hands.
I apologize. I have obviously taken the wrong approach here, and I've misunderstood. I didn't at all understand that you were expending effort on solving my issues in particular. Rather, I thought you were taking the things that I had mentioned as part of continued efforts to optimize the switcher.
I also apologize that it's been yet again a while since I replied. Things are finally starting to cool down for me, but I've been so stressed and busy that this issue hasn't even crossed my mind at times when I was able to access the forum and check in. Not a good excuse, but that's why I forgot. I feel really bad about it.
I would love to make this work out for me, so let's forget that I said anything about maybe returning it. I'll work on getting the switcher back into my setup, I'll re-investigate how my cables are wired, and try to learn and understand why things might be working one way or another.
I got into RGB because I like retro consoles, I like good video quality, and it's accessible even to people who don't fully understand the electronic workings of the hardware. You can buy monitors or scalers that support it, you can buy cables from people who know how to make them, and you can hire modders to solder RGB mods if you've got no experience with it. From my point of view, it's about the results I can get from using RGB, not the tinkering aspect. When I build a computer, I know what parts to buy, and I know to put it together. I don't fully understand
how those parts work, but I can appreciate the result. I see this as the same thing. RGB doesn't have to be just for people who know how to physically tweak and modify electronic equipment. For someone who doesn't have that knowledge, or those skills, getting this far with RGB has been enough of a challenge as it is.
I may need to buy new cables, or learn more about how the cables are made. Like I said, I'll look into what I have. I can't promise I'll understand right away what I have, or what's doing what, or why, but I can try my best to learn more.
I'm really sorry that I didn't think things through when I sent the previous message, and I'll do my best to be more active in getting through these issues.
BuckoA51 wrote:Reading back over this and keeping in mind how RGB is I find it hard to believe everything lines up exactly even without a switch in the chain. However the most alarming bit is this SNES that is using a clean sync cable that won't work without the sync stripper turned on. There's definitely something not right there. I'd try another SNES console.
Are you using a clean sync cable on your Megadrive too Forks? Does your SCART to Mini adapter have a sync cleaner in it?
I can't check the descriptions anymore of the items I bought (they were bought over a year ago from Retro_Console_Accessories), but the adapter listing was "Micomsoft XRGB Mini Sync booster for Euro SCART to XRGB Mini 8 pin" and the Genesis one is "Sega Genesis 1 Megadrive 1 stereo RGB SCART TV lead" ... I have no idea if much can be discerned from that information.