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Title: Complicated Nstc/pal Issue
Post by: Dolfhin on September 01, 2005, 01:38:00 PM

I bought an American dreamcast last year on holiday, I happily played with it for 2 days after which I lost interest in the included wrestling game (hey, I told you it was an American dreamcast ) everything nice and well I never got around to playing more with it due school, work, other stuff you name it.

However a friend of mine recently told me that I could run ''back-up'' copies of dreamcast games on a un-modified dreamcast, I did some research and once again never got around doing it.

Now I do finally have do have some time a lot of spare CD-R's and my Dreamcast however the next problem arise. I used to play dreamcast games on my not to old 4:3 TV that had support for NTSC but I sold it and bought an older 16:9 TV which has more inputs (and a much better picture and a load of other advantages, finally no more switching between N64 en Gamecube!) and doesn't support NTSC

So the situation is :

I have an RGB SCART Input (will RGB work with an American Dreamcast? SCART is an European format and according to the wikipedia it isn't used anywhere else), an S-video input (I think S-video doesn't have any problems with NTSC/PAL but I would like an confirmation and I can't find any S-Video cables for the dreamcast ) and a bunch of composite inputs that are out of the question due NTSC/PAL problems.

So the best solution would be to find a S-video cable for the Dreamcast or a RGB video cable if American Dreamcasts support RGB scart. If that isn't possible due whatever reason I should buy an NTSC/PAL converter which I would like to avoid.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Complicated Nstc/pal Issue
Post by: Dolfhin on September 01, 2005, 08:27:00 PM

QUOTE(Dolfhin @ Sep 1 2005, 09:49 PM)

long post

Title: Complicated Nstc/pal Issue
Post by: The Zep Man on September 02, 2005, 12:11:00 AM

QUOTE(Dolfhin @ Sep 2 2005, 04:38 AM)

So s-video isnt going help me? then would an ntsc dreamcast support rgb scart?

Title: Complicated Nstc/pal Issue
Post by: The Zep Man on September 02, 2005, 04:07:00 AM

QUOTE(grimlock @ Sep 2 2005, 11:08 AM)

I'm sorry to say that the quality will be even worse than the composite: It's (3:2 pulled-down) composite, modulated to RF and then will still have to go through the tuner to be demodulated.

Title: Complicated Nstc/pal Issue
Post by: Dreamcazman on September 02, 2005, 04:33:00 AM

I remember ages ago seeing a simple hardware mod you could do on an NTSC Dreamcast to force it to output a PAL signal. I thought I had it on my PC somewhere but I can't find the damn thing anywhere!  I can't find it on the net anymore either..

If I come across it, I will post it here.

Title: Complicated Nstc/pal Issue
Post by: Dolfhin on September 02, 2005, 09:57:00 AM

QUOTE(Dreamcazman @ Sep 2 2005, 12:44 PM)

I remember ages ago seeing a simple hardware mod you could do on an NTSC Dreamcast to force it to output a PAL signal. I thought I had it on my PC somewhere but I can't find the damn thing anywhere!  I can't find it on the net anymore either..

Title: Complicated Nstc/pal Issue
Post by: Dreamcazman on September 02, 2005, 04:58:00 PM

QUOTE(Dolfhin @ Sep 2 2005, 05:08 PM)

it's not like the dreamcast has that great grapichs anyway

Title: Complicated Nstc/pal Issue
Post by: Dolfhin on September 03, 2005, 11:51:00 AM

QUOTE(Dreamcazman @ Sep 3 2005, 01:09 AM)

Hey, don't say that. When running in VGA, the DC still offers the best PQ IMHO.

Title: Complicated Nstc/pal Issue
Post by: fahrenheit on September 04, 2005, 07:55:00 PM

Using RGB SCART should bypass any problems you have displaying an NTSC signal through the other inputs.
Looks like there are a small number of NTSC Dreamcast games that have RGB removed. http://www.ntsc-uk.c...portHardwareFAQ