


Let me know if you have issues seeing the images, and I'll try to fix it. I can also provide higher resolution images, ones without the red boxes, etc. I could also take a video, if that helps.
The areas with red boxes around them are the artifact I mentioned. I've started using F-Zero as a frame of reference, since the way it appears in this game seems to be very predictable. I don't know exactly what caused this issue, but I have a theory: I was having another issue with this system (that I was ultimately able to fix), and in the process of troubleshooting that issue I think I may have damaged part of the system. I'm using SCART for output, and I believed that the issue I was having might be related to the power output (pin 8 on SCART) of the system. I connected a multimeter to the SCART connector in order to test the power output of that pin, and retrospectively I think I might have accidentally touched one of the other pins, sending power somewhere it's not supposed to go. This might've caused something to short out, or a component to be damaged or altered in some way. My guess would be it's something related to the video components in the system, since I was testing the video output and the issue seems video related. I don't know for sure that this is what caused the issue, but it seems likely. I never saw this issue before I did that, and it appeared very soon afterwards. It is possible that the issue might be related to the RGB mod, but if that's true then I think that something recently must've triggered it, since it didn't have this issue for years after it was originally modded.
So, I'm posting about this because I want advice about what I should do with the system. If I knew exactly what was causing the issue, I might be able to fix it myself. However, since I may have already damaged it once trying to do exactly that, I'm a little worried I might damage it again if I try to do it myself. So, what are my options? If I want someone else to fix it, who/where should I ask? Anyone who does this repair needs to have a way to test the RGB output of the system, since this is what I'll be using. What should I do? The way the issue appears seems fairly limited and very predictable - which makes it seem like it could be fairly simple to fix. The fact that it is so predictable should make testing easy - it should be easy to tell if any repairs solve the issue or not. So, what do you think?