Dragon Cable+SNES not working

[Codeman]

I bought a RGB Dragon Cable which is a RGB cable for the Xbox,PSX,PSX2 and GC.

I tried it on my PAL SNES and got a weird result, as I turned on the system a dark image appeared and started fading and fading.. and about 5s later the image is completly dark!

The GC and SNES are similar in pinout right? a RGB cable that works in a SNES should work in a GC, right?

[NFG]

The PAL implementation of the GC and SNES have always been a little different.  The fading RGB issue is a matter of having caps where there shouldn't be any, or vice versa.  Basically you've got a cable which would work fine on an NTSC unit but not PAL (or vice versa).  This is how Nintendo screwed PAL users again: by changing the standard so SNES RGB cables wouldn't work on the GC.

Easy fix, but still irritating.

[Codeman]

So the PAL SNES doesnt need the caps but the PAL GC does?
Ill try making a on/off switch for the caps then...

Btw if I eventually do a RGB mod on my n64 will it need the caps on the cable?

[Codeman]

UPDATE

I just got a NTSC-J GC and I get the same symptom! Is this normal or does the NTSC-J GC have the same output as the PAL SNES, the one that doesnt use the caps?

[Link83]

UPDATE

I just got a NTSC-J GC and I get the same symptom! Is this normal or does the NTSC-J GC have the same output as the PAL SNES, the one that doesnt use the caps?

The NTSC-J (or NTSC-U) Gamecube doesnt output RGB over the MultiAV out port - only Composite or S-Video. Only the PAL Gamecube outputs RGB over the MultiAV out port.

You can get RGB out of an NTSC-J/NTSC-U GC by using the 'Digital AV out port' (if it has one) using a Component cable, or RGB/VGA if you modify the cable.

[viletim]

Codeman,