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I need schematics to wire a S-video output
qube - Mar 15, 2002
 qube Mar 15, 2002
Does anyone have the schematics ?

thank you in advance

 Mike G Mar 15, 2002
Hello qube,

Firstly you need to know which board version your Mega Drive II has. This mod *ONLY* works for the (uncommon) VA4 board - I'm afraid there's no easy way to add S-Video output to VA1 and other earlier boards. (The version number is printed on the board itself.)

Find a chip on the board labelled CXA1645 - this is the composite encoder, which provides S-Video as well as composite output. You simply need to make the appropriate connections to the chip, as follows:

Pin 15 - Chroma © output

Pin 16 - Luminance (Y) output

Pin 24 - Ground

It's as easy as that! No other components are required, you can simply wire your cable directly to this chip.

Mike

 qube Mar 18, 2002
thank you very much, soldering iron time !

 Scylla Mar 25, 2002
With a S-Video, are you able to play with a NTSC Genesis + PAL SegaCD without viewing it on black & white?

 IceDigger Mar 25, 2002
no.

only rgb will allow that.