Hello,
I recently started getting back into playing my snes console, upon turning the console on I have found that the screen is saturated with the colour red, does anyone know what might cause this to occur?
Snes has a red hue
Hello,
I recently started getting back into playing my snes console, upon turning the console on I have found that the screen is saturated with the colour red, does anyone know what might cause this to occur?
Can you post a picture? It could be that one of the capacitors on another color has failed and isn't producing the proper levels to generate a complete picture anymore.
But that's a shot in the dark.
I fix things. You name it, I'll work on it. Want something modded? Recapped?
This is the general gist of it.
Looks like you have red & green, but have lost blue.
Are you using a SCART cable? If so, try composite or RF. If the picture is normal with those, it's a cable / connector issue.
If blue is still gone with composite, it's an internal issue, RGB encoder, cap, PPU, etc.
Thanks for the response,
I tested the RF cable, and it still had the red hue
Just to rule it out, you get the same thing with other games right?
Yeah, every snes game I have has the same issue, it also isn't the av cable because that works correctly in my 64.
Ok just making sure.
Like mentioned earlier it sounds like the PPU or RGB encoder.
It's too consistent to be just capacitors in my opinion but it's still a possibility, probably a decent starting point at least
How would I go about determining which one of these parts is broken?
well caps are cheap enough to replace and see but I don't think that's the issue here
as far as the PPU or RGB encoder you'd probably want to use an oscilloscope to check those out but I know that's not something every one has laying around.
even if you have one you might not even know how to use it. I've got one and I don't know how to use it but it was a free cool piece of retro tech, needs probes any way.
my thinking is if you cant fix it with the caps then your probably going to want to hunt for another one.
and again it seems too consistent to be caps but I could be wrong on that, atleast they are cheap
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