General Stuff(tm)

[stephen_usher]

Everything's arrived and works.

I had issues with the controller pak as it showed up as "Unknown peripheral" until I cleaned the edge connector thoroughly.

I can't actually see any real difference in video quality between the HDMI adapter and composite video directly into the TV actually.
I may remove the composite output bodge so as to make it look nicer, but I may not.

So, the console has:

Expansion Pak
Controller Pak
2x controllers
HDMI adapter
Summer Cart 64

[PhilC]

That should make it a good little console Stephen.

I really should use mine more.

[stephen_usher]

Well, one issue with the HDMI converter. When it switches to PAL60 mode the chroma is delayed by about a 10th of the screen width, so NTSC games have coloured ghosts to the right of the items that should be coloured.

At first I thought it may be ghosting due to the phono socket mod, so I removed them, but that didn't change anything.

Never mind.

[mrbombermillzy]

Yesterday the expansion pack arrived. It works fine and gives a lot of games some extra capabilities. Some get higher resolution, some just have more bells and whistles.

That sounds interesting. What is it exactly?

[stephen_usher]

It just doubles the memory. It's effectively just an RDRAM chip on a PCB in a case which plugs into a port on the top.