Poor quality RGB on French N64 ?

i have a nus-001-fra model n64
ive connected pins 24 blue 22 green 20 red and 18 csync of chip S-RGB A (BA6596F) like this

With the 75ohm resistors on the colour lines
Cut the V line where the Red line is (checked with multimeter to make sure it had been cut) Cut is very tiny and perfect....also not cut anything else.
i am using this on a pal snes scart cable hooked up to a 55" samsung 6 series model led 3d tv.

This is the sort of quality i should be expecting ?



Thanks for the help!

(posted here because i got told off for posting in old posts)

 

This could just be your TV, I know my Samsung 3D LED doesn't look great with old consoles, even via RGB. You may find it looks beautiful on a good old CRT

 

I didn't know that any european n64 has RGB. The french model is the only?

 

Yes but it has to be modded first.

 

yeah only the nus-001-fra model has the S-RGB chip in no other pal console has this chip.
but the quality of picture sucks on this 55" but snes and mega drive look stunning! just like playing on a CRT
Is there anything i could try to make the image sharper / clearer?
It all looks like there are a lot of pixels jumping around in characters faces if their not within range ( closer to the player )
also games like mario kart do this same effect..
far away you cant see all but a mix mash of pixels as their faces but once they come into view it clears up a lot.

 

Probably the built in upscaler sucking complete ass. Couldn't hurt to toss in a THS7314 amp to bring the signal levels up but I really doubt that'll make the picture much better.

 

crap! i didnt really want to add another amp...isnt the S-RGB chip an amp ?
i guess it could be a really terrible amp.
Looks like my wish to play N64 on my 55" just like i do with snes and megadrive have ended
Any other ideas on the cards??

I saw this picture on a french website that someone modded to work with RGB but check where they connected the Csyncout to pin 3 (S/12V)


Would this actual work ? Sounds like it might send 12V through the S-RGB Csyncout also ?

Or after taking a look at the picture is the / right next to (S / 12v) actually a cut trace to pin S ?

 

You dont need another amp. The S-RGB chip is an amp.

 

so im pretty much up the creek ?

Also did you have any idea about the picture i posted ?

 

It could be your TV or your expectations. The N64 RGB picture isnt super amazing in the first place.

 

ive seen some youtube videos and they all seem to get amazing picture quality (from a LCD of around 42") maybe its the camera their recording the video with making it seem better.
its pretty hard to compare with them as most people buy the NTSC n64 and install the RGB amp mod.
With this Fra N64 it obviously has the amp installed already and ive just reconnected it to the outputs.
I did wonder if connecting sync to pin S / 12v would actually do anything to the quality ?
thoughts?

 

This won't make a difference visually but on an electrical note C-sync needs a 75 ohm resistor as well. Plus you *probably* should be using series output capacitors here (220 uF +) since the DC offset current might be too large for the chip to handle comfortably.

I imagine the blurriness is in some part the S-RGB's bandwidth and your TV's interpolation.

N64 textures are very blurry themselves but the video exiting the DAC doesn't appear to be significantly filtered so ideally N64 video has distinct and "sharp" pixels that make up a mostly blurry game image.

 

No it wouldnt.

Really all you can do is compare composite to RGB and see how you find it.

The picture isnt stunning though, even via RGB. Its certainly an improvement over composite, but its not like the night and day difference of some consoles.

 

ah ok thanks
i may just get a really big old CRT or get a sync strike and scan line generator
possibly that would help? ?

 

syncstrike wont help
scanlines may improve things