N64 to moniter directly?

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:03 pm

Ok, Is there a cable I can buy to hook up my n64 to my IBM moniter thing? Or do I have to make my own and mod my n64.

Basicly I want to plug my n64 into a computer monitor directly.

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Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:29 pm

I guess you could send the rgb signals to the spots on the scart connector where the rgb signals were on the SNES, then take a rgb cord for the SNES, then hook it up to a vga cable with the right pinouts. =D

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:32 pm

You're confusing me. I was hoping for a guide to make a cable or somethin.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:41 pm

>_> It is so easy. Just rgb mod it as found in the sticky in the screens forum. Take a SNES rgb cord. Cut it, take the wires for r, g, b, and sync, and put them on the r, g, b, and sync wires on the VGA cord. >.<

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:44 pm

Thanks. Anyone have a snes rgb cable?

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Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:07 pm

If I'm not mistaken, that has the potential to blow your monitor. There's something else you need to do. I don't remember what. Just..look into it first.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:11 pm

K. Anyone know where a guide is?

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paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:37 pm

n64 cant output RGB

get a composite to VGA

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:42 pm

Yes yes it can, google it...

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:24 pm

Yes it does output rgb, you have to get it off the Chroma Encoder.

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:08 pm

i thought that monitors took x,y synk and the snes puts out conposite sync

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:08 pm

also, television is like 30khz and VGA is 15khz. i think that makes them incompatible?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:26 pm

timmeh87 wrote:also, television is like 30khz and VGA is 15khz. i think that makes them incompatible?

Wikipedia, "television" wrote:The frame rate or refresh rate of a typical NTSC format CRT TV is 60 Hz

Wikipedia, "video" wrote:NTSC (USA, Canada, Japan, etc.) specifies 29.97 fps. Film is shot at the slower frame rate of 24fps.

I'm confused, why is the NTSC CRT refresh rate double the NTSC refresh rate? So are LCD's refresh rate 29.97?

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:12 pm

The wiki is right about 60hz because pal is at 50hz

LCDs do not have a refresh rate of in the sense of a tube TV they work differently and therefore this explains why a lightgun doesn't work on an LCD TV

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:41 pm

timmeh87 wrote:also, television is like 30khz and VGA is 15khz. i think that makes them incompatible?

Yeah, that's the thing I was referring to. I don't really know much about it. But what I do know is that if you don't somehow get the signal to 15khz, you really risk blowing your monitor.