Is my Genesis outputting video in PAL mode?

[Kitsune Sniper]

Does anyone remember that Cross Products Mega Drive system I stumbled upon earlier this year? I finally managed to get two Genesis 1 power supplies, and the thing turns on just fine. I managed to obtain an RCA cable for the thing, but this is what shows up:



Does anyone have any clue what's going on? Or is this some sort of video capture issue?

Edit: Ah hell, I think this is a Genesis problem - it doesn't output stuff correctly. Bloody hell. I'm using RCA video, by the way.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I hate the Genesis, go figure.

[evildragon]

I noticed your pic the LED light area is white, not red. It's a euro Genesis, so it would indeed be outputting PAL.

Change your capture card settings to decode in PAL.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I noticed your pic the LED light area is white, not red. It's a euro Genesis, so it would indeed be outputting PAL.

Change your capture card settings to decode in PAL.

I did. It doesn't work. All I get is a frozen screen.

The only one that kinda works is PAL-M, and I get the same results as NTSC, but in black and white.

I get some colors in NTSC.

Edited to add:
This thing is definitely outputting stuff in PAL. After fiddling with the dips, I managed to get the thing to boot the Sega CD in Japanese mode! There MUST be a way to get this to boot in US mode somehow. The system ejects the disc tray fine, at least.

Edited again:
The CD tray works! It played a CD fine, woo.

[evildragon]

So you got the video out working?

Cause I noticed on my Genesis, if I force a PAL video output (NTSC model), it will output 50Hz, but a black and white image with little glimpses of color, due to the incorrect crystal used for the color pulse (correct term?).

It still looks like a european PAL outputting Genesis though, euro was the only one with the white plastic piece I believe.

[phreak97]

have you tried it on a tv? if you can show what it does on a tv i may be able to help more. showing through a capture card will give different confused results for every different capture card, however if you put it onto a crt tv, ill more likely be able to say whats happening.

it could be outputting ntsc50Hz or something dumb like that, as most capture cards wont see that as a real format.

also, does it say genesis or megadrive on it? because remember all non-asian megadrives are pal, and all genesis consoles are ntsc.
can you link me to somewhere where i can actually see what console you are talking about? i ouldnt find another thread referring to it.