Be careful when buying Solaris Japans RGB cables

[aamike68]

I am in the process of working out this issue with them, but I bought a cable from them for my RGB modded SNES mini with C-sync enabled hooked up to XRGB mini. Got the cable today and it looks great, solid construction but only audio is passing through but no video. Tried a lot of different things in settings but eventually hooked up to 2 other older SNES systems and worked fine. This got me a little heated because nothing on Solaris Japans website stated that it wouldn't work with the SNES mini. I have sent them an email and am hoping for a solution because I dont want to return it. Also im a little pissed because in the process of troubleshooting I disassembled my snes mini and my C-sync wire came loose from its solder lol! so Im down for the day on my main system until I can re-solder at work tomorrow.

Also for anyone wondering, I had a cable from retro console accessories on ebay for a while but the multi port plug was seperating from the cable if that makes sense. So there were exposed wires and I was concerned that something would eventually pull out and cause problems, plus I started experiencing some pretty noticeable ghosting so I decided to order the Solaris cable and keep the other as a back up.

Ill keep you guys posted.

[blizzz]

That sounds more like an issue with the RGB mod in your SNES Mini.

[bobrocks95]

If your csync wire clearly had a cold solder joint, are you sure it wasn't the wire's fault and not the cable? Other than that it may be how your mod is wired. What's connected to what?

[Edward_Tz]

I am in the process of working out this issue with them, but I bought a cable from them for my RGB modded SNES mini with C-sync enabled hooked up to XRGB mini. Got the cable today and it looks great, solid construction but only audio is passing through but no video. Tried a lot of different things in settings but eventually hooked up to 2 other older SNES systems and worked fine. This got me a little heated because nothing on Solaris Japans website stated that it wouldn't work with the SNES mini. I have sent them an email and am hoping for a solution because I dont want to return it. Also im a little pissed because in the process of troubleshooting I disassembled my snes mini and my C-sync wire came loose from its solder lol! so Im down for the day on my main system until I can re-solder at work tomorrow.

Also for anyone wondering, I had a cable from retro console accessories on ebay for a while but the multi port plug was seperating from the cable if that makes sense. So there were exposed wires and I was concerned that something would eventually pull out and cause problems, plus I started experiencing some pretty noticeable ghosting so I decided to order the Solaris cable and keep the other as a back up.

Ill keep you guys posted.

The Micomsoft cables from Solaris use Luma as sync. A SNES mini doesn't have that on the output stock. So unless you mod it, it doesn't have Luma on the output. I guess you could hack job it and solder the C Sync wire to the Luma pin.

This got me a little heated because nothing on Solaris Japans website stated that it wouldn't work with the SNES mini.

It says "Luminance as sync: Removes any chance of interference usually caused by composite video as sync while retaining the highest possible compatibility with all displays and processors."

[aamike68]

*sigh* well thats a bummer. I had no clue the mini was THAT much different than the regular snes revisions and didnt include luma as a sync option. Just caused myself a lot of headache i guess, I think I'll just re-solder my C-sync wire and use the old cable to save myself more trouble. thanks for the replies guys. ugh, waste of money because of ignorance...

[ApolloBoy]

You could also mod your SNES mini for S-video, it's just as easy as modding it for RGB.