Sega Saturn RGB Scart - Burnt Out Image

[alpachinko]

Seem to be having an issue with a few RGB cables that ive bought over the last year or so. I have a japanese sega saturn and using them with suitable jap saturn to euro scart leads. When I used to plug them into my battered old amiga phillips monitor I never noticed this, but since plugging into my lcd or scaler setup I have noticed that the image seems to be burnt out. Before spending more money on scart leads for it I was wondering whether anyone else had come across this particular problem and how they went about fixing it. I'll muddle my way through soldering etc if needs be.

[Jockel]

Burnt out as in weak colors? Or is it too bright? In both cases, I'd suggest opening the cable and having a look.

[alpachinko]

Hi Jockel. Yeah the whites are too bright. Colours seem to be pretty vivid and not washed out. Ive tried brightness and contrast on two tvs and and a dvdo edge to no avail. I'll try and get a picture of the screen when I get home from work.

[Jockel]

You should probably solder some resistors in place, but one of the techier guys can surely explain it better.

[fagin]

You shouldn't need any resistance on Saturn RGB lines.

[cfx]

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[alpachinko]

Yeah mine is a model 2 as well. Can't understand the issue as it always seemed to work A1 on a CRT TV.

I ended up coming to some sort of conclusion to my issues last night though, which I'm not guaranteeing will work on everyones setup, but worked with mine. I dug out my Extron 580XI out and chained the sync strike to it, the output set to composite sync and DDSP set on going into the DVDO Edge. I was still getting overly bright whites. Now the Extron has two screw terminals in the front of the unit, I screwed the video level one to hard left. I was then left with a dark image so I turned a bit to the right again and was presented with a nice clean image on my DVDO. Looks screwed on other consoles unless I make adjustments on the Extron again though! Weird.

Edited: Didn't make sense! + typos