PC Engine RGB Mod

[scrappysphinx]

Hi all, i picked up my first ever PC Engine this week since i've wanted to try one for a while.

Well i ended up grabbing the Core Grafx system with everdrive from Ebay.

It came with a 3rd party PSU, AV cable, controller & Everdrive.

I've played with it for a little while but found the Composite video to be poor quality on my TV (lines & jailbars through the image) so thought i'd look into an RGB mod.

Turns out its pretty simple on this model.

The Core Grafx has a 5 pin AV socket on the side, this can be removed and replaced with an 8 pin socket. I recycled my 8 pin socket from a dead Mega Drive model 1.

So old one removed and new socket installed. The motherboard only has space for the 5 pins so the extra 3 were cut short at the back of the socket and wires soldered directly to them. The Red/Green/Blue signals were pulled directly from the video chip.



Image is really sharp now



And all back together and looks like it was factory installed.

 

[keropi]

nice job on the socket but you need an RGB amp in your setup, the colors are very dark , the Bomberman background should be a light blue not this dark tone of it
there is a sale here for amps, just take one and install it between the IC and socket

 

[tokyoracer]

Very nice indeed. Always wanted one of these too. I still need to look at getting my PCEngine GT handheld fixed up.

 

[scrappysphinx]

Received my RGB amp from Todd today. Installed fine but my Samsung LCD didn't want to sync so I cut off the composite signal and wired it to sync instead. All working fine now

 

[Phipscube]

That looks great! I modded mine a few years ago and recently added a better amp too. That one you have looks really nice! (I made mine from scratch and looks a bit messy with wires etc). Reminds me I need to update my mod thread on here with the newer photos.

Edit

Looks like I did add my new photos this March, I just forgot! My PC Engine mods are in my sig below

 

[scrappysphinx]

Thanks bud but I think I'm gonna let the machine go. I've had it a couple weeks and it's seen little use. Couple that with the fact that I've just bought a Neo Geo AES and the price of Neo stuff is very expensive I could do with recouping some of the cash