DIY PS2 Component Cable

[Clark101]

I wanted to make my own component cable for my PS2 and my question is: do i have to add an caps or converter circuits or can i just take the Red, Green, and Blue straight from the back of the PS2?

[mako321]

You can take RGB straight off the board. (Pretty sure)

[Haunted360]

... and RGB improves the overall graphic quality - correct?

[tom61]

I do believe the OP means Y Pr Pb of component video (whose cables are colored red, green and blue.) It doesn't need a converter IC, but may need caps.

[bassmasta]

Ok, so component can be RGB, but commonly (as I know) it's YPbPr.

If you want RGB, you're gonna want to take it right off the board, because Sony has a measure that greens the screen over time. There's a thread around here about taking the signals right off the internal caps, I can dig it up if someone wants.

And yeah, RGB improves the image quality.

[Haunted360]

OK thanks for that. And yes I remember that Topic too...

(Sorry to Hi-jack Bass)

http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32915

[tom61]

Ok, so component can be RGB, but commonly (as I know) it's YPbPr.

RGB technically means Red Green and Blue color signals plus another line for sync. Older European TVs with SCART connectors and arcade monitors are the typical users of RGB for the context of this forum, when dealing with consoles anyway. (VGA also uses Red Green and Blue color signals, but has [typically] separate horizontal and vertical sync, and runs at a much higher scan rate, but just call it VGA.) Component is an odd mixed signal format that delivers quality roughly on par with RGB, but is not interchangeable with it. However, for some reason, the powers that be made the RCA connectors colored Red, Green and Blue (with another set of white and red for audio, if sending stereo). Since RGB in the US is almost unheard of for consumer devices, component ends up being mistakenly called by its connector colors. It also doesn't help that component and composite (just a Yellow RCA) are such similar words, so even more confusion abounds.

In the case of the PS2, RGB and component video come out of the same spots on the connector, and you change to whichever you want to output in the menus.

[bassmasta]

Well there's also sync on green, but it doesn't really work on the PS2...

In the case of the PS2, RGB and component video come out of the same spots on the connector, and you change to whichever you want to output in the menus.

Right, so the OP just needs to c connect the green red blue cable to Luma, Red, and Blue, respectively?
Pinouts are here.

[Clark101]

thanks for the help guys