It had been sitting in water so the main board needed to be cleaned. Also the AV jacks on the front were broken so they had to be re-soldered. Also the front glass was badly scratched so I managed to polish most of them out using cerium oxide powder and an electric sander. Ideally I would have ground down the area first with silicon carbide but that adds a lot of time to the process, I still may do it but not any time soon.
Turns out that games play fine, but the menus are illegible. Maybe there’s a fix for the system menus? Or maybe I can undo the mod, I only modded to get otherwise unreachable DLC
Is there a way to see the current input resolution on the framemeister? Maybe it says it’s 480i in the settings but it’s actually forcing 480p. I found multiple threads about that when I googled rocky5 and component cables.
I just wouldn’t, to be honest. Connecting a modernen PC to an SD crt is a pain. A 2080 can’t natively output 480i, so you’ll either need an old Radeon card or a downscaler. Maybe look into the GBS-Control if you like tinkering.
I’ve done this recently with my 3080 with great results, although using an S-Video input instead of component. I first used this cable to adapt a displayport out to VGA, then used this adapter to go from VGA to S-Video (and it also outputs composite). I found it worked quite well, although the S-Video adapter needed some tinkering to get it just right (also even though the power cable is usb, a standard pc port doesn’t give enough power, so you’ll need a wall wart for it or else the colour will be intermittent). It’s capable of downsampling from a wide variety of resolutions, so there’s no need for a custom one as long as it’s the right aspect ratio, though native 480 does sound neat.
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