Please refer to album here: http://imgur.com/a/X6CWC (only 5 pictures) So Sudden Realization Ralph moment for me - this whole time I have been using an incorrect cable for my N64. Yes, please lay on the laughter, I deserve it lol.. I blame myself, mostly for lack of research and letting myself being misinformed along the way thinking N64 must only ever use Luma or something. I've been meaning to crack open my SCART cables for awhile now (see here) and kind of glad I did. What are your opinions on my next step? I already own 2x CSync Nintendo multi-out cables, instead of buying a third should I just change this Luma cable into a CSync one? Or, should I in fact still be going for Luma Sync on my N64 and just run the traces to do so? What is the best output? Is it even apples and oranges? I do not have any source material on how to do either of these changes, so if anyone could give their suggestion and maybe share a How-to I would totally appreciate that. Thanks for any insight!
This is just about the sync signal, you're already on RGB, am I seeing this correctly? If so, if your current cable works and the image isn't shifted or unstable, just stick with what you have. CS/luma is more an issue of some TVs not accepting composite for sync.
Hi rso, yeah my setup is all RGB. I've always gotten an image, so I suppose the Sync is fine.. The thing that made me question quality loss in the first place was noticing slight jailbars on my Broadcast monitor and artifacts on Mario Party (which I think are just the normal ugly sprites to be honest). I guess like you are saying, if it ain't broke don't fix it? I just wasn't sure if since I was 'doing it wrong' I was losing out on something.
If you want to test it, then try it. You can always revert the change if it doesn't make any difference. If you share your findings, it won't be a complete waste of time if there is no change, cause then you'd be telling us your result. I say try it.
Okay guys, bit of an update (wish I could change the title of this thread/maybe I can but don't know how): I swapped over to using just a standard CSync multiout Scart. When viewing Mario 64 on the startup screen I get incredible amounts of dot crawl, artifacts, you name. In my case I did not have a controller inserted so on Mario 64 the NO CONTROLLER text suffers a ton from this, but also everywhere really. Any help on solving this? Has it happened to anyone else? Board is the NUS-CPU-03 Member Zer0-2k11 mentioned in this earlier thread "If your using a Raw Sync cable, you'll have to link pin 7 (Luma) to Pin 3 on the multi-out because composite sync is not connected to the multi-out on the CPU-04. If your using a regular RGB scart cable, you should be getting a picture on screen. Though it should work with composite video as sync but its known to cause some artifacts. It's best to lift the composite video pin on the ENC-NUS chip and link 7 to 9 or cut the Composite video trace and link 7 and 9 on the multi-out if your using a regular RGB scart cable . I believe sync is the issue on why your not getting a picture. it was confirmed a while back that the LM1881 does not work or does not work well with the N64 by a very experience member on the boards here (APE?)" Should I go ahead and swap back to the Luma cable? Funny thing about my eariler responses - the Luma cable does NOT in fact provide stable sync via the BVM, but when fed into the OSSC it seems to clean up the sync and make it stable. I can provide video of what I am seeing on my end if that would help..
