First of all, I have to say: It was really a challenge to register here, because i needed several tries to input that real hard captcha...
It felt like colorblinded...
Please excuse my bad english, I'm german.
I have to say, that I've got the same problem as Das Muel describes it in his first post.
I don't own a XRGB and I have connected my PAL Saturn Model 1 ("MAIN VA PAL SD 837-12135") via (i think original, not fully 21-Pin) RGB Scart Cable to my old Toshiba 46XF351P. That TV has some issues with vertical lines at the borders in 16:9, but in 4:3 mode it works perfect.
My Saturn is hardmodded (soldering) to display permanently 60 Hz (used SW4).
It is also permanently regionmodded to JAP, so I can use the Pro Universal Adapter that I originally got with a grey japanese Saturn some years ago. Without that mod it says that the cartridge is not usable on the system.
As I told, I have the same problems as Das Muel did have.
Panzer Dragoon Zwei looks really shitty because of the jailbars. Most of the games I own do have these issues, but SEGA Ages (Space Harrier, Outrun, After Burner) looks really great!
No Jailbars, sharp, perfect colors! Also the title screen of the Pro Universal Adapter and the Saturn system menu do not have any issues.
I did try to add a sync stripper as described here:
http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/composite-syn ... er-lm1881/
It did not work correctly. I got a picture, but sometimes it used to jump left and right and the jailbars did not disappear at all! Seemed if VSync was missing, but it did not help to solder a connection from the vsync to csync and so I removed that sync stripper at the end.
So I tried to hook up the Saturn over Composite only - works and the jailbars are gone, but it's only a blurry, on some points flickering image with unrealistic colors. So no option for me...
So how do I get rid of these jailbars without buying an expensive XRGB?
It seems as if the TV can't switch to RGB without overlaying the whole composite signal which causes interferences that produce the jailbars.
I saw Scart Pinouts (e.g. in the link above) that show that every color also must have a ground pin which is not availabe on my (I think original) RGB Scart Cable.
So I was thinking about buying a 21 pin cable like that:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/191658415234?_tr ... EBIDX%3AIT
If it also does not have ground connected with the needed pins, it would be easy to solder it, I think.
And if it then also only produces jailbars, even if I give the sync stripper another try, then I would take the next step an buy something like that:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0092IA ... _pC_nS_ttl and hope, that the signal via HDMI becomes clear in the end.
I also read, that some Saturns (like mine) produce more jailbars and some don't.
What do you think?
Edit: I bought another cable from Ebay. It has 21 pins, but they're not all wired. So there is also no ground for R, G and B.
I tried that cable with the same results - jailbars...
So this time I took the Saturn out of my gaming room, bringing it into my living room and hooking it up to my Sony 48R550C and the Sony shows really no jailbars!
Also the picture is perfectly centered, filling the Screen from the bottom to the top and everything is visible, while my Toshiba cuts some lines left and right.
Then I tried it with my old Philips 27" LCD in my bedroom. Also no jailbars, but the picture is not centered and does not fill the entire distance from bottom to top.
So it seems to be very depending on which TV you use...
I don't want to put the Saturn and all games into my living room, because I got that gaming room with an old, big LCD for it.
I will try to solder the ground contacts for each RGB onto the right pins and will look if it helps to tell my Toshiba that it has to use only RGB mode without overlaying a composite picture.
But until now, I still also don't understand why some games produce some jailbars, some produce really heavy jailbars (Panzer Dragoon Zwei) and some even don't (SEGA Ages)!
