Does the IS-NITRO CAPTURE output RGB from either of its output ports? I'm curious as to how the Nintendo kiosk units are hooked up as they don't look utterly horrible but when I tried several official Super Famicom RGB cables, I don't get anything onscreen but the XRGB is detecting sync and audio is running through fine.
I don't know if there are differences between the cables, but that system was designed to use the gamecube power supply and RGB cables..
In Japan, there never was an official RGB cable for the GC and the connector for the original GC is different from the legacy Nintendo connector used on the N64, SFC and AV FC so that doesn't sound right at all. The only exception may be the SCART cable sold in Europe but it sounds unlikely that Intelligent Systems would have made a different pinout when they've been designing Nintendo dev hardware for ages.
Just to enforce the above comment. I've had 3 IS Nitro in my possession now and none will do RGB. They all output composite or S-video just fine using a Super Famicom, N64 or game cube analogue cable. (all of those systems use the same cable)
NTSC Gamecube units were intentionally designed to be *incapable* of producing RGB video. I believe the goal was make it difficult(or impossible) to shove the consoles inside arcade cabs (a common practice in poorer countries where people had no money to purchase consoles/games. There isn't such a thing as 50Hz arcade monitors so they added that capability to the PAL hardware. But again, because S-Video is reall not widely used in Europe they choose to gut S-Video out and make it so the video output chip used on PAL units use the die space which would be used for S-Video buffers be the RGB outputs instead. So you get either RGB or S-Video outputs. Very likely the IS-NITRO is using a NTSC GC DAC chip as video output. Never seen one open though...
Thanks. So it actually use the N64 DAC instead. I suppose that makes sense. And all I said about the GC DAC is similar on the N64 DAC....
