CRT component inputs damaged / VGA or YPbPr to S-Video?

[chinagreenelvis]

So I have an RCA TruFlat with component inputs that had broken pins lodged in them. After using the "hot nail" trick to pull them out, the screen now has a permanent blue tint. Could be coincidence, or maybe something got damaged when the pins broke or when I did the removal. If anyone has thoughts on that, I'm all ears.

The TV also has an S-Video input, which I'd be fine using if I can still avoid dot-crawl - which is the whole reason I set up CRTEmudriver in the first place, and output through a secondary Radeon card the native resolutions (240p/480i/etc) through the VGA, which then goes into the VGA to SCART/YPbPr adapter. Everything was working great until those pins broke off. I've tested using multiple sources, tried swapping around the inputs, everything just results in a mostly blue and faded picture.

Is there any good way to convert to S-Video from the component adapter when I'm sending the native resolution signals? Or a different kind of adapter that will go straight from VGA to S-Video for the same purpose?

Amazon sells cheapo VGA to composite/S-Video converters but they don't preserve the signal, they just convert it to a garbage one that results in the awful dot-crawl, which defeats the whole purpose of CRTEmudriver.

Any suggestions on what to do with the TV or how to bypass this problem are welcome.

[buttersoft]

https://ultimatemister.com/product/mikes11-active-composite-svideo/

Not sure if that is only for Mister, you'd need to ask, but might be ok?