Only in a retrogaming related thread would an allusion to Yakoff Smirnoff not seem out of place.
Thank you. Ordered the Dreamcast cable not long ago as well, but haven't hooked it up yet. Looking forward to having more stuff connected to HDMI switches.
Maybe the laser can be replaced? I don't know if you frequent Reddit, but r/originalxbox has a lot of knowledgable users who might be able to help you troubleshoot your problem. Some disc drive models were more prone to failure than others, the laser included. But this is why a lot of people have done hard or soft mods at this point to run games off a hard drive instead of using the disc drive. The disc drive door on my 1.2 model only opens about 50% of the time, but I only play a handful of games regularly on it. These disc based systems are ancient at this point (Dreamcast came out in 1999, Xbox came out in 2001), so they aren't exactly in prime shape anymore. But posting your question on Reddit would probably get you good answers.
I've only been to reddit a couple of times but I'll definitely have check it out and see what they have to say. I checked the date on mine and it seems to be a 1.0(4/11/2002 mfg date). Depending on the degree of difficulty, I may look into the hard/soft mod thing. Thanks for the help.
The Xbox had very bad drives most of its life that would ultimately fail, honestly the best route is to just mod and run off HDD, I don't even have my DVD drive connected because it would slow booting up down trying to initialize it's failing hardware. If you open it up you could eBay a matching drive if you really want it to work though
Here's a Reddit link that explains how to remove the clock capacitor. If you have a 1.0 launch model, you need to do it if you haven't already. It took me less an hour, and I'm not a technical guy.
posts I've seen suggest that you should do the cap removal on any system that is below a 1.6
That would be correct.
Glad to hear it. If you've never opened a game system before it's a pretty exhilarating experience. Or at least it was for me. It also gave me a chance to remove all the dust that had caked up on the inside. Now, other than the sticking door, my 1.2 is running like a champ.
Component to HD? They've done wonderful things with PCSX2 recently, but I doubt a Pound cable could make a PS2 game look as good as it does on that software. Still, it would be nice to play all my PS2 discs on the original hardware for a change.
These cables aren't converting to HD, they are piping the video to HDMI, the name is a little bit misleading, they're basically taking the component video output and then feeding it through conversion down an hdmi cable. The PS2 does support 720p/1080i output though, I believe you can force it to output at hd with one of those bootdiscs.
You never sent it back? I thought you had already returned it because of the interference.
I'm really curious to see what's up with this, because the PS1 is incapable of outputting standard Component video. It can do SCART (this was super common to see in Europe), and RGB, but it isn't set up to do Component. Using an official component cable will give you a rolling screen.
They're using an in-line converter board, it's not just piping the analog signal to the hdmi pins
Still have it, was hoping to get adequate footage to help pound but never did, then started looking at the inline box and couldn't really determine where the interference might have been coming in from, reports from people sound like it's really down to the system itself and that the cable might be amplifying the problemso it's more obvious, but who knows. I'll be curious to see if the Hyperkin cable exhibits the same issue
I kept the Dreamcast cable even though it didn't work on one of my systems. I figured it didn't matter which Dreamcast I used to play my games since the issue with that one not powering up the HDMI was a system-specific problem. But my advice to anyone who buys the Dreamcast Pound cable is that they need to test it on their system(s) as soon they receive it to make sure that it works. Otherwise, you might be stuck with it if it's past the period that Amazon allows returns.
Yeah I think it's a 30 day window, pound was very open in my discussion with them that if you aren't happy be sure to return it in the window
