Making a comosite able Dreamcast.

DK · Post by DK » Sun May 13, 2007 7:20 am

I've got 2 Dreamcasts, but neither of them have working A/V cable

Basically I want to mod one of them so it has female composite inputs in the back. I found the outputs of the Dreamcast, http://www.gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=av:dreamcastav but just wanted to ask a question. To wire this up, would I solder one leg of the female plug to an output (audio/video) then the other leg to ground? If not, how?

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Sun May 13, 2007 8:10 am

im pretty sure thats what you do but dont take my word for it. You could always try it out and if your wrong desolder it

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:55 am

The signal goes to the center of the RCA connector, ground to the outside.

DK · Post by DK » Sun May 13, 2007 2:27 pm

vskid wrote:The signal goes to the center of the RCA connector, ground to the outside.

I was just about to ask that question. You must have ome sort of 7th sense (6th is balance)

DK · Post by DK » Wed May 16, 2007 9:20 am

Found out the easy way, hack the actual cable. I checked the cable and it had the same outputs as I needed. So all I did was chop the cable apart below the boxy thing(Composite to A/V converter) and found out the cables were coloured Red, white and yellow. So I just soldered the wires to 3 comosite male plugs and it works

DK · Post by DK » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:24 am

UPDATE:
White cable goes to Yellow plug
Yellow cable to White plug
Red cable to Red plug

Hope that helps, I just redid it today as one of the solders came loose.

PeglegJimmy · Post by **PeglegJimmy** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:01 pm

Thanks man, That worked perfect. Screw those guys on eBay wanting $10 shipping for a wire

Mine was a bit different tho, Pink - video, yellow - sound left/right

DK · Post by DK » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:16 pm

PeglegJimmy wrote:Thanks man, That worked perfect. Screw those guys on eBay wanting $10 shipping for a wire

Mine was a bit different tho, Pink - video, yellow - sound left/right

That was the exact reason I did it.

hack124x768 · Post by **hack124x768** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:39 pm

I modded rca jacks for video and audio on the back of my dc about a week ago. My brother and I both have dc's but he didn't get an a/v cable with his,now we can play at the same time, and I can use a ps1 screen with less wire mess. I can post pictures if you like.

-=FamilyGuy=- · Post by **-=FamilyGuy=-** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:38 pm

hack124x768 wrote:I can post pictures if you like.

Hey, why not ?

It's always cool to see new mods

-=FamilyGuy=-

hack124x768 · Post by **hack124x768** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:06 am

Feast your eyes on that.
Theres a small blurb about it on my blog, along with a longer thing about a VMU hack.
http://www.tgi.net/~andrew