Colour my world

2004-12-23 07:28:27 pm

Time bomb set get out fast!

I have a small problem... I brought my GameCube home for the Christmas holidays so my brothers can see Prime, but when I hooked it up to the Commodore 64 monitor they use with their Playstation, I found I wasn't getting any colour. The PSX doesn't have that problem, so I have no idea where it's coming from. Does anyone know whether there's a compatibility problem between C64 monitors and GCs?

TRH: moved it to "Console Gaming"

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Red Scarlet

2004-12-24 01:16:48 am

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

Yeah, about 20 years.

I've played a PSX on one of those too, and maybe my SNES, but I don't recall any problems. Maybe the plugs weren't in all the way.

A_Lee_N

2004-12-27 08:10:38 am

Zeke: You need a real RGB cable for your GameCube to get colour.

Scarlet: There's a big difference between PAL and NTSC, so it's not strange that you havn't had any problems with it. But to get proper colours in 60hz with PAL hardware you need proper cables. And those 20 years have been kind on old scart monitors, in fact i prefer them in front of TVs to play video games.

Zeke

2005-01-03 01:07:31 am

Time bomb set get out fast!

Thanks, guys. For the record, my brother fixed the problem. The C64 monitor has two sets of input ports: one on the back (a standard red/yellow/white set) and one on the the front (which only has yellow and white ports). For some bizarre reason, you only get colour when you use the front ports. I didn't see them originally because he had his PSX plugged in there; when we switched the GC to those ports, it worked perfectly, despite that the red cord wasn't plugged into anything. Very peculiar.

Ekarderif

2005-01-03 01:10:04 am

The red cord is the stereo cord. If you have a stereo TV, there's a plug for it. If not, the yellow one suffices as the sound from the single speaker and the white one has all the video anyways (or was it vice versa?).

Edit: The red cannot double up as mono in some rare circumstances. I've encountered a few instances where the yellow/white (I don't care right now, too tired to think) carries most of the sound where the red just has the ambience. Having my mono speaker TV hooked up wrong, I could barely hear anything with the red in but the yellow/white was tolerable (it'd be better if the TV was any good).

Yoshi348

2005-01-03 01:10:08 am

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Ready and willing.

The red plug is your right audio. It can also double as the left in a mono situation... my own white plug is dead.

As for the double plug, either one side is burnt out, or they had to trade off between stereo and color back in the day.

EDIT: Lol, beat me to it. And it is vice versa.

Smops

2005-01-03 09:41:10 am

yellow = video.