Can't play PS1 games on my PS2 slim with HD compenent.

Azure_sky

Well I can hear them but I'm getting no picture. I can play them when I go back to the VGA scart but it looks awful on my hd tv. Weird thing is it works fine with all PS2 games except some retro compilation such as World heroes anthology. I can see the menu screen for World heroes but as soon as I pick a game I get the exact same issue as I do with my ps1 games, no picture just sound. Can anyone help? I really hate using regular cables as it looks awful.

Retr0gamer

PS1 games and older games run at 320x240 resolution. Might be that your TV doesn't support 320x240 over Component.

Maybe get yourself an RGB scart cable. You'll get the same quality as the Component cablebut it's an international standard so should work.

Had a read up and the PS2 outputs games in 240p with component which is a weird resolution and your TV might not support it if it's a cheaper model. Get an RGB scart cable (not the yellow red and white cable that gives atrocious quality). It should display fine and will give the same quality as component for PS1 games.

Azure_sky

Retr0gamer wrote: »

PS1 games and older games run at 320x240 resolution. Might be that your TV doesn't support 320x240 over Component.

Maybe get yourself an RGB scart cable. You'll get the same quality as the Component cablebut it's an international standard so should work.

Had a read up and the PS2 outputs games in 240p with component which is a weird resolution and your TV might not support it if it's a cheaper model. Get an RGB scart cable (not the yellow red and white cable that gives atrocious quality). It should display fine and will give the same quality as component for PS1 games.

Thanks. That makes sense alright considering some ps2 retro games would not work either. Are RGB scarts for the PS2 hard to come by? Do you think I will have to get one online?

Azure_sky

I just tried something new. There's an S.D. input on the back of my hdtv so I put the rgb cables in there. I then picked the SD output on my remote but nothing came up so I went to AV and it was there. The picture and sound looks better than when I used the rgb cables the on AV input but it's still not as good as ps2 games with hdmi composite cables.

Butch Cassidy

You can play PS2 games in HD? What res do PS2 games run?

Retr0gamer

Azure_sky wrote: »

I just tried something new. There's an S.D. input on the back of my hdtv so I put the rgb cables in there. I then picked the SD output on my remote but nothing came up so I went to AV and it was there. The picture and sound looks better than when I used the rgb cables the on AV input but it's still not as good as ps2 games with hdmi composite cables.

You'll need an RGB cable like this:



PS1, PS2 and PS3 RGB cables are all the same and interchangeable. Ask astore if they have a PS2 oe PS3 RGB cable, if not they should be cheap online. One thing to note is that in a lot of TVs only the primary RGB port supports RGB as in the one for AV1 so only use that slot. You'll get picture quality practically on par with Component and much better than the god awful picture from the composite red white and yellow cables.

I'm not sure what way you are hooking up your TV to get that SD picture but it might only be displaying in composte and not RGB. A good way to check is on the logos at the beginning of games. If you are getting dot crawling artifacts like in the picture in this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_crawl

Then you are getting composite signal and the image will be awful. Check the edges were opposing colours meet and you'll see something like in that image but moving as well, it's the big give away. If you are getting that then you'll need an RGB cable to get better quality.

Here's a gif of the effect:



If you can see that you are only getting the same quality as the yellow red and white cables which is by far and away the worst quality picture you can get unless you are goint through the aerial.