Problem with pal n64 brightness

2009-12-26 07:22:48 am

umad

Ok I got a pal n64 yesterday and it works great.

But there's a problem with the picture output, it outputs much too bright and there's ghosting everywhere on white images. I looked around and saw that it was because of using s-video, but I tried a composite input and it did the same thing. The RF hookup that came with the n64 doesn't work properly and I can't get it to display a picture, so that's out of the question.

Is there any way to fix this?

Thread title:

Kabuto

Edit history:

Kabuto: 2009-12-26 01:04:40 pm

2009-12-26 08:23:16 am

Sounds like worn out capacitors on the n64 or TV set, I've seen ghosting effects in the past with PC graphics cards having bad capacitors. Does the ghosting look like the attached image? It's photoshopped to look like what I've seen on those bad graphics cards.

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ghost.jpg

ING-X

2009-12-26 08:38:03 am

umad

no it's more like a glow - everything that's close to being white glows brightly even when i turn my brightness down. I found a picture setting that makes the brightness problem less obvious but it's still there and things are still glowing.

Sir VG

2009-12-26 10:45:25 am

Fucking Weeaboo

Are you using both composite and s-video connection at the same time, like coming out of a splitter or an input selector? Sometimes that will cause an issue.

ING-X

2009-12-26 01:03:22 pm

umad

nah i'm just using s-video. I tried changing it to composite but that didn't do anything useful. Sad

ING-X

2009-12-26 01:30:42 pm

umad

Okay I took a couple pictures of the star fox 64 title screen on both n64s (once on my ntsc one and once on my pal one using a passport). As you can see there is a very clear difference in brightness between the two, and nothing i do in my picture settings will fix it:

NTSC N64:

PAL N64:

And before anyone asks, no, the passport has nothing to do with the brightness. My pal games do the same thing on that n64 so it's nothing to do with the passport.

nate

2010-01-04 10:24:55 pm

really odd that pal is the one that's wrong ... sorry, don't know anything.

ING-X

2010-01-07 07:50:26 pm

umad

i think i figured out the problem - ntsc composite connectors (as well as all s-video connectors) don't have the "clips" on the wires inside the part that goes into the n64. pal composite connectors have those which prevents the picture from being too bright. i'll get pal composite connectors soon, but in the meantime turning the contrast down all the way on my tv does help make the problem a little less noticeable. Smiley