Questions that do not deserve a thread

[Ed Oscuro]

Leaky caps will leave obvious sources, and just a thin film will remain on the board. You didn't say if it was thick or not, but it does sound like glue. It's not uncommon to see glue in PSUs - for example on the ferrite / windings to keep them from audibly resonating.

[Astraea FGA Mk. I]

Is the SNES mini able to output S-video?

[pigswill]

Is the SNES mini able to output S-video?

The SNES mini can output S-video with a mod. But with no modding it only can output composite video.

[Astraea FGA Mk. I]

Is the SNES mini able to output S-video?

The SNES mini can output S-video with a mod. But with no modding it only can output composite video.

Are the RGB and S-video mod different?

[SunJammer]

Is the SNES mini able to output S-video?

The SNES mini can output S-video with a mod. But with no modding it only can output composite video.

Are the RGB and S-video mod different?

The mods are essentially the same, you just need to tap different legs of the S-RGB A chip
http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=av:snes2rgb

another method of the RGB mod involves bypassing the S-RGB A chip, which is a little more involved but may result in a better picture in the end
http://retrorgb.com/snesminirgbmod.html

[ACSeraph]

Is there any kind of converter that can downscale a 720p/1080p HDMI signal to 480p?

[Fudoh]

Almost any video processor can do this.

[ACSeraph]

Any example? Basically I have an AV upscaler that runs AV and S video via HDMI at 720p or 1080p with no option for 480p. Unfortunately my TV is a piece of shit and cannot run any signal above 420p with proper 4:3 side bars, so it stretches the picture to 16:9 and there's nothing I can do to change it. This is the problem I'm trying to solve.

[Fudoh]

Really, almost any stand alone video processor. Check my page http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/ . If you want quick processing and visual results superior to your AVR, I would suggest a DVDO.

But to solve your problem you would use the processor to scale to pillarboxed 1080p, not 480p. You would handle the full aspect ratio control on the processor and leave your TV set to 1080p in 16:9.

[zanardi]

Do you know if the Sony BVM-2011p have the option to find the operation time?

[BazookaBen]

What do y'all know about the Panasonic Tau?

http://winstonsalem.en.craigslist.org/e ... 96102.html

[bobrocks95]

Panasonic's answer to Sony's Trinitron. So just a nice consumer set, early 2000's. I'd assume it has an aperture grille but maybe not. Should be nice if you don't already have a good consumer set or anything better. Or as a spare TV in another room.

[cicada88]

I was looking around and noticed my original US Xbox. I bought it near release with Halo and that's literally the only game I played on it. It's been sitting around ever since.

It's so big and heavy that it wouldn't even be worth the hassle to sell.

What should I use it for?

[BazookaBen]

I was looking around and noticed my original US Xbox. ...

What should I use it for?

Google "good Xbox games"?

I've never owned one, but I want to pick one up just to play that one anti-gravity racer that ex-Wipeout devs made.

[cicada88]

I was looking around and noticed my original US Xbox. ...

What should I use it for?

Google "good Xbox games"?

I've never owned one, but I want to pick one up just to play that one anti-gravity game that ex-Wipeout devs made.

Not really any Xbox games I am interested in and they would play on the 360

[shmuppyLove]

I was looking around and noticed my original US Xbox. I bought it near release with Halo and that's literally the only game I played on it. It's been sitting around ever since.

It's so big and heavy that it wouldn't even be worth the hassle to sell.

What should I use it for?

Can't it be softmodded and run emulators and stuff?

[beatsgo]

I was looking around and noticed my original US Xbox. I bought it near release with Halo and that's literally the only game I played on it. It's been sitting around ever since.

It's so big and heavy that it wouldn't even be worth the hassle to sell.

What should I use it for?

Can't it be softmodded and run emulators and stuff?

No doubt it should plus you can *cough* run xbox games on the HDD, but that's something you have to research for yourself *cough*.

[zanardi]

Do you know if the Sony BVM-2011p have the option to find the operation time?

bump

[Xan]

Is using composite video as sync detrimental on a Super Famicom, i.e. are checkerboard patterns visible like on PAL systems?

[tcancian]

I have the infamous cross hatch pattern on my RGB modded N64, if I put a LM1881N to filter the composite video, thus feeding composite sync to my transcoder (it doesn't have the pattern with any other console) will it fix the issue? I've also noticed that when I feed the YPrPb signal to the HD Box Pro the MD1 and N64 won't get recognized but the SNES and Saturn will, looking at the pinouts I suppose they have a more stable composite video and the SS uses raw sync, will the sync stripper also fix this issue?

[blizzz]

Is using composite video as sync detrimental on a Super Famicom, i.e. are checkerboard patterns visible like on PAL systems?

Here are some screenshots from a Super Famicom on the Framemeister with composite video as sync. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33450&p=1026564#p1026564
No problems

[cicada88]

I was looking around and noticed my original US Xbox. I bought it near release with Halo and that's literally the only game I played on it. It's been sitting around ever since.

It's so big and heavy that it wouldn't even be worth the hassle to sell.

What should I use it for?

Can't it be softmodded and run emulators and stuff?

No doubt it should plus you can *cough* run xbox games on the HDD, but that's something you have to research for yourself *cough*.

I guess I'm going to try to put some weird emulators on it like --- MSX / MSX2 / DOS Games as well as the 10 or so XBOX games I'm interested in.

[BuckoA51]

Is this one of the Extron Emotias that doesn't support 240p? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Extron-Emotia ... 1464815750

[Xyga]

Is this one of the Extron Emotias that doesn't support 240p? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Extron-Emotia ... 1464815750

Not sure but IIRC the ones that do are the following;

Emotia
Emotia Plus
Super Emotia
Super Emotia GX

[BuckoA51]

He says it's an Xtreme MX so I guess not, shame, it's in good condition and good price.

[beatsgo]

Unfortunately no, the Extron Emotia Xtreme MX only outputs in interlaced format.

[Shuco13]

Exactly, unfortunately...

[Xan]

I got a NTSC NES and a Everdrive N8 recently and been having some strange issues. On Mega Man 2 whenever I would press Start during a level the game would simply reset to either the main menu screen or the Robot Master select screen. Not sure if the Everdrive is to blame here, but I did try another ROM and couldn't reproduce that behavior on either of them... could be a 72-pin connector issue?

Also on Mega Man 3 I get a glitched up line during the Robot Master select screen. I'm using the newest v11 firmware... all the other games seem to work fine though.

[kamiboy]

The Mega Man 3 glitch is normal.

[Xan]

Can anyone tell me if L4 series PVMs need clean sync? There's conflicting information on this on the net...