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    Composite video out using monochrome, being glitchy

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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69 @brad2600
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      @brad2600 in the /boot/config.txt file you probably have the video set wrong for your region. If you have pal, it is probably set to ntsc. Or if you have ntsc it is probably set to pal.

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        brad2600
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        i set sdtv_mode=0, is there anything else i need?

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        • edmaul69E
          edmaul69 @brad2600
          last edited by

          @brad2600 i dont know where you are so i dont know if you use ntsc or pal. Try setting sdtv_mode=1

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          • edmaul69E
            edmaul69 @brad2600
            last edited by

            @brad2600 also sdtv_mode=2 and sdtv_mode=3

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              brad2600
              last edited by

              oh yes, sorry, i live in canada, so its ntsc, which i believe is 0

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              • edmaul69E
                edmaul69 @brad2600
                last edited by

                @brad2600 is sdtv_aspect=1 correct?

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                • edmaul69E
                  edmaul69 @brad2600
                  last edited by edmaul69

                  @brad2600 something i just thought of, does your tv have a shared green/yellow? If so, you are on component and not composite channel. Correct channel might just be called video.

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                    brad2600
                    last edited by

                    it is a composite only situation. i do have one of those shared green/yellow units, but i avoid using it for pretty much anything, just to keep from complicating things.

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                      brad2600
                      last edited by brad2600

                      sdtv_mode being set to 0, 1, 2, or 3 seems to make no difference.

                      sdtv_aspect=1 has in fact framed it as 4:3, so thats good. its still the same black n white mess, just 4:3 now!

                      also worth noting, when it first boots, the test colour screen is in colour, albeit glitchy with bars down the side. once the boot sequence starts however, there is no colour.

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                        brad2600
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                        also, to ensure that none of my changes have affected this, i just tried a default, no rom, freshly downloaded install. still the exact same results.

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