Dreamcast S-Video Displays In Black And White
Just bought a " new " dreamcast s-video cable ( red, white, yellow, and the s-video cord )
and it will not display color nor does the picture look good on my samsung 32 inch lcd.
Was i sold a defective s-video cord or might there be another problem?
I've tried to put it onto av and it had color there, same problem on BOTH of my tv's s-video ports.
You either have the wrong region Dreamcast (does Composite show in color), or that S-Video cable is piss poorly wired. You have a monochrome image with dot crawl. S-Videos luma line has no dot crawl, which makes me believe it's wired wrong.
Composite shows 100% perfect from the same cords, the dreamcast model is the American black NFL 2k model.
After some google searching a topic on gamefaqs surfaces with a man that also had this problem who mentioned they are gold plated sumo cords.
Here's a picture of my cords, can anyone here confirm what brand i bought? If these are sumo cords and are terrible could someone please recommend me a different brand?
Last edited by wingzrow; 10-08-2008 at 04:48 PM.
Get one from a store like EBGames or GameStop if you still can. That way if something goes wrong, you can return it. Besides, I bought one from EBGames years ago, and it worked till the day I gave it away and went to a VGA adapter.
Impossible, they don't carry anything older than gba/ps2 and they, get this, MELT the old stock when a generation shift hits if they can't sell it.
I'm pretty sure that the Chroma wire came off. Say, are all the four S-Video pins present and straight (not bent)? If so, then the bad connection is internal. Could be at the connectors or a bad cable.Originally Posted by wingzrow
Composite shows 100% perfect from the same cords, the dreamcast model is the American black NFL 2k model.
After some google searching a topic on gamefaqs surfaces with a man that also had this problem who mentioned they are gold plated sumo cords.
Here's a picture of my cords, can anyone here confirm what brand i bought? If these are sumo cords and are terrible could someone please recommend me a different brand?
No, from his picture, it looks very much like Composite video being fed into the Luma pin.
Proof of this: The Luma line on S-Video doesn't have dot crawl as it has no Chroma, but in his picture, it's a monochrome picture with dot crawl. This would happen if Composite was fed into the Luma line. You can try it, it'll happen.
so it"s the cord then right?
Yep, that's what I said.
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