Looking to purchase an NES RGB PPU chip.

Only have the one board from my old cabinet, sorry

 

Ah! What's a good composite-scart adapter? And where might I find one? It is a possible alternative option worth trying. NES could look better with help from my external scart scaler

 

Male SCART plugs with female composite inputs are commonplace (I'll send you one for free if that's what you're after).

 

I know that, since Im the seller of a certain PPU, it may sound biased, but every scaler Ive encountered (minus ones that are 300$+) aren't worth the money. Its a bit like polishing a piece of crap, it make look different in the end, but its still a piece of crap.

 

Yup composite is that overrated. I'm just leaving no stone unturned. NES RGB no matter what is a major investment.

 

Scaling composite is a bad idea, don't even consider it if there's an alternative, and especially don't spend money on it. That said, I don't think anyone rates composite untouched, so overrating it is unlikely

 

Don't worry. I'll still go through with this in the end. A stop-gap measure is little risk to attempt. I'm not THAT senile yet as to simply accept composite.

To normal people your line of logic all "clicks" by nature. I on the other hand... I've got some bad habit of thinking by a wallet instead of a brain. Researching problems leads me to find expensive and/or complicated solutions. Failing to even discover simple obvious potential ideas until way later than I should.

The very concept of connecting the dots to realize hardware I already own, and hardware I was able to readily buy from the beginning without needing to make any request, could interface with one another, literally did not occur to me.

 

In the meantime, Ive popped the board up on ebay. If it remains unsold, feel free to give me a shout. Time to get rid of some more stuff.

 

We're both sitting here with composite as the only output for our NES systems, I'm not trying to say I've figured this out either. I can't find an economical way of fixing the situation, guessing you're the same. Even if I found a playchoice board for cheap and nabbed the RGB PPU there are still issues: the jail bars, the incorrect palette etc. At this stage I'm holding out for a homebrew FPGA console implementation of the NES that has its own proper RGB DAC. If I'm going to spend £50 or more I'd better be guaranteed decent video.

 

Thanks. The guidance toward sensibility is welcomed. I'm going to have to learn tossing cash at problems isn't always the most practical way to reduce them. Bad as composite is, it's not quite hopeless. For what it is consoles like Saturn do the encoding better. Getting NES up to that level is a start.