Ps2 and display output

Pavin Playz · April 8, 2018

Hello, I am a fifteen year old boy from Malaysia which is neighbouring countries with Singapore. My goal is to build a fully custom PS2 with mod chips, water cooling 3d printed case. My question is there are many way to connect a ps2 to a 4K TV but which way is netter in quality and lower lag. The picture that I included is an example. I will not buy the product from the website or the price stated. BTW, does external upscaler help the quality of the picture and lag or is the built in upscaler in my 4K TV in home better?

MSharpeWriter · April 8, 2018

I'll start with some Basics... The most PS2 games will be rendering at Standard definition, 480i for the most part. There are exceptions to this, some PS2 games and many PS1 games that use 240p, and several that support 480p and 1080i. (With PAL region system and games, different screen sizes are present, but is normal for TVs in PAL regions.)

The Cable that came with the PS2, the Composite (White/Red and Yellow) is generally considered to be the poor solution, with Today's Flatscreens. I'd personally avoid this as a Permanent solution.

The Component Cable is often one of the better solutions out there. Since the PS2 lead doesn't know which type of connector you have, you need to select YpYbR in the PS2 settings. As leaving it on RGB will make the screen be blank.

There are two RGB Standards the European SCART and the Japanese JP21, both are similar and use the same connector, and both are look the same for video ouput. They are incompatible between each other though. The Quality is often nearly identical to the Component.

The PS2 to HDMI is pretty much what you think. Some Models won't handle 240p Signals (and you can't tell without actually trying) and I've read some TVs also have trouble with 480i over HDMI.

As for the Upscaler boxes, I really don't know much about them, but I've left it to the TV to do the up-scaling.

As I said before, Most PS2 games are locked to 480i, so don't expect the game too look like most HD Remasters do, regardless of cable.

If you have an hour to spare I recommend watching this video:

They cover most of the Retro systems and I suggest that also look at RGB 206 Playstation 1

Me: I use a Older PAL PS2 (One of the Launch style Models with iLink: SCPH-30000) with Component, From there It either goes in to a Elgato Game Cap, or my TV's Component input.