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I finally took the plunge and ditched my dual 40" LCD TVs in my gameroom in favor of a Sony WEGA 32" CRT. Already, I have noticed a difference in the picture quality hooking up my Turbos using composite. However, I know a better viewing experience can be had, and I'm looking to take the next step and S-Video modding my consoles. While there are threads about doing this to a base TG16 console, and a Turbo Duo system, I haven't seen anything about modding the CD docking station for those using a Turbo+CD setup. Has anyone done this? And if so, are there any detailed threads with photos of this modification?

Modding the TG-16 itself will still get you S-video with the TG-CD so there's no need to mod the dock.

The Y/C separated version of the video signal never goes through the dock. It has to be hacked out of the system.

You could take RGB from the dock and convert it to s-video, but that would be more of a pain than just modding the TG16 to begin with. Alternatively, if your CRT has component, look into RGB to component transcoders and RGB mod the dock.

I will s-video mod my tg16 as soon as the parts come in. I will let you know if these will work with the dock or not.

they will work with dock, as all video comes from the huc6260

Good to know Steve. How about sound? I imagine you'll need to get it from the dock.

You can get audio from a number of places but if you want the native s-video it has to come from the inside of the core unit. You can get an encoder and make s-vid/composite from the RGB that exists on the dock, and people have certainly done that, but unless I'm mistaken (quite possible, I can't find a reliable expansion bis pinout as I type this) the current s-video mod people are doing comes from the chip inside the core unit and does not exist on the dock. Largely this is because of cost. Its $2 in parts versus $40-80 in parts. I have no opinion on quality difference, I imagine there isn't much of one, but I wouldn't be surprised if the native is better.

native is jailbar free, and the colorspace matches the composite output

Heh, I thought that might be true.

...I really need to do this.