I really don't know what to do with my xrgb mini, if I had bought it from a UK seller this thing would be going right back, £300 plus I've spent on this thing, thel unit itself is nice and small but having the rgb and svideo connections on the front is not good, the remote is not great, you have to point the thing directly at it for it to register and the buttons on the remote do not feel great either, and you'll be fiddling around using the remote allot, the interface is not great
The lack of an instruction manual in english is really gonna cause people trouble, make sure you look at the wiki as some picture modes are not suitable for 480p, as picture mode is not suitable for 480i. including all those horrid adaptors to make things work with it, and thats the problem most things don't work with it, the rgb interface is somewhat finnecky
N64 works and looks stunning, but I get intermittent dropouts, picture desyncing, random colured lines every few minutes, I guess its all down to how the system is rgb modded, mine was modded with a sony rgb dac, but the system works fine on my tv direct
PAL modded SNES works but you have to fiddle with the AD level and sync level everytime and the picture messes up with some images, like the title screen to zombies ate my neighbours, the xrgb cant handle that for some reason
Megadrive works
Saturn could not get it to sync properly despite fiddling around in the menu for over half an hour, so class this as not working
PC Engine works but get horrible interference for some unknown reason, looks fine when directly connected to tv
PAL 3do over svideo works but looks atracious, not an improvement over connecting it directly to tv, could not get scanlines a, only scanline b which don't look right no matter how much you fiddle around the settings, horrible motion artefacts on all picutre modes, didnt fill the screen properly
Wii over rgb works
Anything over component works fine though there is low level interference, but its not very noticeable at all to be honest, though 480i is not displayed properly for some reason, I had to set my xrgb to 16:9 and tv to 4:3 to get it to fill the screen properly
I feel really peeved off and massively dissapointed with this thing, I've spent nearly countless hours preparing my console setup for this thing, even more hours fiddling around with it, when it works it looks great don't get me wrong, but this thing is nowhere near being plug and play, to anything who is thinking of getting one be prepared for a steep learning curve, looking to the internet for answers, lots of fiddling around with settings, trying different cables, perhaps even having to buy completely new consoles, even when you do get some consoles working, having to change the sync level, the ad level, switching over to 16:9 and switching the tv to 4:3 to get different consoles looking right is just a massive ballache to me, I think I may sell the xrgb and get a slg in a box, that thing looks more plug and play, sure I'll be missing out on 240p, quality deinterlacing and upscaling to 720p, but if all you want is scanlines that thing seems a cheaper and more straighforward alternative, aslong as your tv has a vga input.