RGB Capable TV

SCART / Peritel is just a socket and all it won't gaurantee you anything. The socket can support Stereo Sound, Composite Video In, Composite Video Out, RGB, S-Video and Component (although anything above 480i isn't going to work... If your wondering, Pin 7 - Blue, Component Cb; Pin 11 - Green, Component Y, Pin 15 - Red, Component Cr, S-video Chroma, Pin 20 Composite Sync, Composite Video, S-Video, Luminance). It also has the ability to send serial information too.

Japanese also use the Peritel socket and most TVs will support RGB and they also support Composite video too (Pin 9 has Video, Pin 7 is the Video Ground).

As for the PC Engine, as composite video is supported on nearly every TV in Japan and RGB was a bit of a minority format why would NEC spend a few yen more amplifing the RGB signals and wiring up more pins of a DIN socket when they can save that and make more millions of Yen? Then again Nintendo didn't make a RGB Famicom even though it would have been reasonabily easy to do so and they made damn sure that RGB was brushed under the carpet for the N64.

 

or even upgrade their system to a much more acceptable standard e.g. S-Video for their later systems (DUO, R, RX).

NEC/Hudson was the undisputed master of successful add-ons, may be the best of all time in the wohle game history. but why the hell they stuck back in the 80s with a crappy output signal?!

such nice games, which never could be enjoyed in their full gorgeousness, without a hard-mod.

 

Too true. I love playing my Duo but the output in it just sucks balls. I hate Composite and what's worse is that NTSC (which I'm stuck with now) looks worse than PAL from what I remember. When you see that the Super Famicom was RGB, Mega Drive was and Master System was, it really makes you wonder why not spend that extra 2 yen for the RGB signal and loose something else.

Yakumo

 

Wasn't there a monitor that you could buy that had an HuCard slot? I remember seeing it on Yahoo a couple of years back. The card slot was on the front panel.

The TV is a Japan Victor model. I bought it because it had a VHD player with it. The VHD player was one of the rare last editions with 3-D capabilities built in. So I bought everything just for that piece of equipment only. I had to the take TV and a receiver with it as well. I'm pretty sure I don't have the receiver or remote for it anymore...bummer.

There are two speakers on the side of the TV. The two little panels on the side open up. Those cover the speakers when closed.

You can't see much of what's behind it, but there is a Sega Prologue 21 karaoke machine and 100 CD changer. I've been toying with that, trying to get it to work. You might want to check that out, Yakumo. The front panel has two slots for Saturn controllers but I can't seem to get it to boot up a CD. The 100 disc changer works but the main unit doesn't seem to want to read anything in it. The main unit has the Saturn controller slots and a single CD tray, but putting a Saturn title in that didn't do anything. I don't know if that single part isn't working or if I'm just doing something wrong. You could check out the monitor as well. I'll probably Yahoo both of them, tho.

Oh, and I'm not married. Behind the TV is the Sega unit I described plus my garbage can, so it's kind of a junky area heh.

 

Some misinformation here that's been kind of cleared, but should probably be re-stated:

You're making the mistake of seeing SCART as a video standard of itself. SCART cables that have only a few pins as you describe are simply composite video over a SCART connector. They are still SCART

Nah, any Euro TV since the early 90s should cope with RGB over SCART just fine, and any with 2 SCART connectors should be RGB/S-Video alternately. Not sure if that's different in the States, it was my impression that you guys didn't get SCART at all.

 

Well now that's I've mentioned the Prologue 21 unit I might as well show some pics. This is the main unit. The 100-disc changer isn't pictured. Looks like there's an RGB input on back, so I guess I could hook this up to the monitor and get karaoke and RGB Saturn games. Not that I'd know what that really means...

 

One more thing...

The bottom panel on the right (with the Prologue logo) has the Sega Saturn controller inputs. The front panel on the left has the CD tray.

 

A-VGA + Magic Engine

Nope, no SCART. If you want RGB, your options are for the most part limited to a Sony PVM, Commodore monitor, or some other weird offbeat something.... most of which (including the commodore option) don't go over 19"...often only 13". You can probably import at PAL Tv, but it seems a lot of the models imported don't have SCART... or at least don't mention it. I looked before I got my PVM.