hooking up a psone screen to a dreamcast...

dkap01 · Post by **dkap01** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:22 pm

Has anyone been able to hook up a psone screen to a dreamcast? I've been trying for the last 2 days and no go. I 've got the sound to work but no video. I want to use RGB. If anyone knows how, please let me know...

Thanks
Dave

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:25 pm

Heres half the problem solved.

Post by **gannon** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:32 pm

hmm...not sure, I always thought that the dreamcast only output vga rgb, not 15hz, then again, I don't know much about the dreamcast.

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:14 pm

No, I think it will output plain RGB...(I think)

dkap01 · Post by **dkap01** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:39 pm

HK-47 wrote:Heres half the problem solved.

I dont know what you mean by slot 1 and slot 2, but here's the pinout for the AV... And if slot 1 is the AV it has 16 pins.

Pin Description Dreamcast
1 Ground
2 Right Audio
3 Left Audio
4 +12v
5 +5v
6 31 kHz RGB
7 15 kHz RGB
8 Vertical Sync
(for VGA)
Pin Description
9 Horizontal Sync
(for VGA)
10 Composite Sync
11 S-video
12 S-video
13 Composite Video
14 Blue Out
15 Green Out
16 Red Out

pinout for psone screen
1 Gmd Ground
2 Rt Right Audio
3 Gnd Ground
4 Lt Left Audio
5 Y S-Video Y
6 Sync NTSC Video/
Composite Sync*
7 C S-Video C
8 V-Gnd Video Ground
9 B Blue
10 +5v +5 Volt
11 R Red
12 G Green

Post by **gannon** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:07 pm

The picture and pinout that hk-47 gave was of the psone lcd's controller board.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:23 pm

Oh yah, BTW that pic wasn't mine... So dont blame me for any mistakes.

poppe · Post by **poppe** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:12 pm

here's some info about rgb on the dc: http://www.gamesx.com/avpinouts/dricasryu.htm

MR.MOD · Post by **MR.MOD** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:05 pm

That's the wrong picture if you check near the end of the psone pinouts thread there's a different one.

Yeah I made that picture and it has no mistakes

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For the sync line you may need a capacitor if the picture is scrambled.

DiscoSnorlax · Post by **DiscoSnorlax** » Wed May 18, 2005 11:52 am

What I did was to get a cable like this one (originally meant for a sony camcorder), hook it and the Dreamcast's cord to a coupler similar to this one (got mine at radio shack), plugged one end into the Dreamcast, hooked the other end into the a/v connector (near the headphone socket) on the screen, and it worked, no cutting or soldering or anything required... I may shorten it omeday to avoid needing the coupler or needing to mess with all the excess cord, though...

Unidentified Assilant · Wed May 18, 2005 12:03 pm

but the nes outputs RGB directly...