Saturday, August 23, 2014

Dreamcast: flickering s-video cable issue solved

I bought another Dreamcast s-video cable from Retro-Bit since the s-video output from my Madness Gameware VGA box wouldn't work for some reason. Maybe I broke it trying to trick non-VGA games to work by flicking the switch at exactly the wrong time. Well, whatever.

My other Dreamcast VGA box by Naki had working s-video output in addition to composite, but when I tried it, the picture would flicker, which is why I bought another s-video cable.

This Retro-Bit cable had the same flickering problem at first, but once I plugged in both s-video and composite (the cable has both) into my DVDO Edge, the problem went away.