SNES A/V

From HwB

Available on the Nintendo SNES/Famicom, N64 & GameCube.

Pinout

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SNES A/V MALE CONNECTOR at the SNES.

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SNES A/V FEMALE CONNECTOR at the video cable.

Pin Name Description
1 R Red
2 G Green
3 CSYNC Composite Sync
4 B Blue
5 GND Ground
6 GND Ground
7 Y S-Video Y
8 C S-Video C
9 CVBS Composite Video
10 +5V +5 VDC
11 L+R Left+Right Audio (Mono)
12 L-R Left-Right Audio (Used to calculate Stereo)
Signal Famicom SNES
(Old model)
SNES
(New model)
N64 GameCube
(NTSC)
GameCube
(PAL)
Composite Video Y Y Y Y Y Y
S-Video N Y N Y Y N
RGB N Y N N N Y

The US and NTSC SNES have a ‘DC offset’, which is basically extra voltage, on the RGB lines. You can filter this out with one 220uf coupling capacitor on each of the RGB lines (+ towards console, - towards display). PAL SNES systems do not need these caps, but PAL GameCubes do. NTSC GameCubes don't output RGB through this connector.

PAL SNES Note: Pin 3 is SCART Switch voltage (+11 or 12 VDC) on PAL machines

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