Anthony1
03-03-2007, 11:08 AM
I have a XRGB2+ unit that I love very much. It allows me to play games in RGB on anything that can accept a VGA signal, and with a VGA to component transcoder, I can play systems in RGB on any HDTV with component inputs.
Anywho, for whatever reason, no matter what I do, the picture just doesn't look quite right when I use my XRGB2+ with my Super Nintendo. For all my other gaming systems, the picture looks fantastic, but with the Super Nintendo, there is just something very "off" with the picture.
I've played around with the various settings in the menu. Brightness, Black Level, Gamma, Sharpness. No matter how I change them, I can't get it to look quite right. The main issue that I'm having is that there is a "blooming" in the contrast of foreground objects. Like your main character that is running around on screen, or various sprites that are running around on screen. Pretty much anything in the foreground plane. It's like the foreground plane has the contrast pumped way up. I have the Black Level down super low, but if I go any lower, the picture becomes too dark. So I can't go any lower. I've played around with the Gamma settings, and no matter what, I can't get a natural picture.
The thing that really sucks about it, is that everything else is absolutely beautiful. The colors, the details, all outstanding. But the over saturation in the contrast on foreground objects just becomes too damn distracting that I don't even use my SNES with the XRGB2+ anymore.
I was wondering if anybody else out there is using a SNES with the XRGB2+, and if you've noticed the same thing. If not, and if you have a great picture with your SNES, and none of this "blooming" in foreground objects and sprites, can you do me a huge favor? Could you write down your settings for Brightness, Black Level, Gamma and Sharpness? Just count how many individual clicks are on the screen in the various sections. Then I can try to duplicate the exact settings and see if I can get mine to look normal. It's a damn shame I can't get my SNES to look proper with my XRGB2+, cause it's such an awesome machine. Right now, I'm using my SNES in S-Video on my HDTV's instead. RGB looks vastly superior in terms of details and colors, but I just can't deal with the "blooming".
Anywho, for whatever reason, no matter what I do, the picture just doesn't look quite right when I use my XRGB2+ with my Super Nintendo. For all my other gaming systems, the picture looks fantastic, but with the Super Nintendo, there is just something very "off" with the picture.
I've played around with the various settings in the menu. Brightness, Black Level, Gamma, Sharpness. No matter how I change them, I can't get it to look quite right. The main issue that I'm having is that there is a "blooming" in the contrast of foreground objects. Like your main character that is running around on screen, or various sprites that are running around on screen. Pretty much anything in the foreground plane. It's like the foreground plane has the contrast pumped way up. I have the Black Level down super low, but if I go any lower, the picture becomes too dark. So I can't go any lower. I've played around with the Gamma settings, and no matter what, I can't get a natural picture.
The thing that really sucks about it, is that everything else is absolutely beautiful. The colors, the details, all outstanding. But the over saturation in the contrast on foreground objects just becomes too damn distracting that I don't even use my SNES with the XRGB2+ anymore.
I was wondering if anybody else out there is using a SNES with the XRGB2+, and if you've noticed the same thing. If not, and if you have a great picture with your SNES, and none of this "blooming" in foreground objects and sprites, can you do me a huge favor? Could you write down your settings for Brightness, Black Level, Gamma and Sharpness? Just count how many individual clicks are on the screen in the various sections. Then I can try to duplicate the exact settings and see if I can get mine to look normal. It's a damn shame I can't get my SNES to look proper with my XRGB2+, cause it's such an awesome machine. Right now, I'm using my SNES in S-Video on my HDTV's instead. RGB looks vastly superior in terms of details and colors, but I just can't deal with the "blooming".