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RGB / SCART Adaptors

Being in a PAL land now (Australia) I'm suddenly aware of a definitive solution for converting RGB to SCART for blissfully clear gaming love. Here then is how I did it:

First I hacked up my custom made SCART extension cable - it had a female SCART on one end and a male SCART on the other end. It was a straight-through cable, each pin went from 1 to 1, 2 to 2 etc. Nothing special. You can use a male ⇔ male cable if you like, they're pretty common. Replace one end with a female connector and wire it up as follows:

The pinout

RGB Signal SCART
15 Red 15
19 Green 11
20 Blue 7
9 Sync/Video 20
1 Left 2
5 Right 6
16 +5v/Blanking 16
13, 18, 17 Ground 13, 14, 17
7, 3, 21 Ground 5, 9, 18, 21

The Caveats

  • GameCube, VGA and other devices may not work with H+V Sync instead of Composite Video as a Sync signal
    • (Not sure if this is because it's H+V tied together or because it's not composite video, or because I lacked the Blanking signal)
  • I used +5v for blanking, but you may need to use a 100Ohm resistor on this line.
  • Ground is Ground, you don't have to separate them. One ground line is enough, but you must connect ALL the ground pins on each end
scart2rgb.1123755133.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/08/27 20:44 (external edit)