Easy SNES/SFC YUV component video!

[TrekkiesUnite118]

I think the SNES Mini has the S-RGB encoder. Though if you can just buy the encoder you might be able to swap it out.

[Guntz]

Huzzah! The legend is true! SNES component is real!







The video is a little odd to me though. Straight reds, blues and greens are pretty vibrant, but regular graphics tend to look a bit pale. Maybe it's just how SNES is, I haven't played it in a while.

What are you guys waiting for? Get your irons out! It's SNES modding day!!!

[TrekkiesUnite118]

Would have looked nicer I think if you wired it into the AV out connector, but still nice.

[Guntz]

I can't be arsed with proprietary cables. I'd have to make one specifically for this SNES if that were the case. RCA jacks are easier...

[Lastcallhall]

With this being Nintendo, the phrase, "it's on like Donkey Kong" is highly apropos.

[xelement5x]

Would have looked nicer I think if you wired it into the AV out connector, but still nice.

If you were going to use the AV port you could just buy the GameCube component cable for a the $100 or whatever they cost and not mod the system at all. This seems like an awesome easy way to get an excellent signal out of the SNES.

[Guntz]

If you were going to use the AV port you could just buy the GameCube component cable for a the $100 or whatever they cost and not mod the system at all. This seems like an awesome easy way to get an excellent signal out of the SNES.

*facepalm*

First of all, not only does the GC component cable use a different physical plug, but the cable contains a built-in DAC. There is no raw analog Component to be had inside the GC... That's why the cable is so expensive, because as of right now it's pretty much the only easy way to get Component from a Gamecube.

[lumclaw]

Technically GC doesn't output component. That port offers digital AV true to its name. (otherwise we'd be looking at perhaps the most egregious console exterior typo in history)

But Nintendo only released an analog video cable for it, completely disregarding the port's audio.

No one has been able to make the video portion's digital form useful.
Thus far, only the audio portion has been successfully converted into SPDIF.

[Waterfaller]

How would the video compare to this versus going from SCART to component, I wonder?

[Guntz]

Technically GC doesn't output component. That port offers digital AV true to its name. (otherwise we'd be looking at perhaps the most egregious console exterior typo in history)

But Nintendo only released an analog video cable for it, completely disregarding the port's audio.

No one has been able to make the video portion's digital form useful.
Thus far, only the audio portion has been successfully converted into SPDIF.

Yes, that's right. Point is though, xelement5x is horribly misinformed.

Oh yeah, I forgot to properly reply to this:

Would have looked nicer I think if you wired it into the AV out connector, but still nice.

There's not enough free space on the Nintendo Multi-AV port for component. You'd have to cut other lines to make room, like say RGB.

In other news, not sure if this is significant to anyone here, but here is my Component SNES on a somewhat modern Panasonic Viera (Plasma display). I guess I didn't hook it up correctly the first time, haven't tested on that older Plasma yet though:

[Lastcallhall]

So, has anyone tried the digital audio out mod for the SNES? If one did that, along with the component out, that would make for one hell of a 16-bit console.

[xelement5x]

Yes, that's right. Point is though, xelement5x is horribly misinformed.

I'm not sure I understand, so you can't just buy the GameCube component cables, stick them into an SNES AV out and get component video out of them? I was under the impression that the AV port had all the data on the pinouts that when combined with encoder in the cables gives you the component signal, is this not the case?

[TrekkiesUnite118]

The Gamecube component cables use a different AV port than the Standard Nintendo Multi-AV Out. The Component cables use the port labeled "Digital AV Out":

[lumclaw]

I'm not sure I understand, so you can't just buy the GameCube component cables, stick them into an SNES AV out and get component video out of them? I was under the impression that the AV port had all the data on the pinouts that when combined with encoder in the cables gives you the component signal, is this not the case?

Even if the GameCube component cable did fit SNES, you wouldn't get any sound. Nintendo didn't release a cable to use the digital output's audio in any way. Making that entire part of the data officially unused.

In all seriousness they flopped bad using so little of GameCube's potential. Look how few online games came out.

[Lastcallhall]

I don't have the right model.