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Why are HD Retrovision cables for SNES and Genesis / MegaDrive so expensive?
Howard_Casto:
What do you need a switcher for? You should only have one retro console plugged in at a time unless you want to deal with a nightmarish rats nest of wires regardless of which format you use.
Also to your argument about scart not being viable.... well if you aren't in the hardcore community then you probably don't have all of these consoles.... which means you have to re-buy them.... and they never come with the cables. So it's spend 10 bucks for a stock a/v cable or 10 bucks for a scart. Costs exactly the same. Also if you aren't hardcore then you don't have a lot of consoles... so there's no need for switches ect. You just don't like scart for some reason, which is ok, but it's just as viable option as anything else. At this point if you are buying old consoles outside of maybe a nes, snes or genesis, you are in the hardcore community anyway. Normies just play the stuff emulated on a modern console via collections, virtual console, ect.
mahuti:
--- Quote ---But that project looks daunting as hell.
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Is it the breadboard work that looks daunting? For me usually the daunting part is waiting to get parts in the mail.
--- Quote ---do you even BYOAC bro?
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That made me laugh.
Howard_Casto:
Yeah half the time the parts come from China and you wait a month or two to get them. A sync splitter is super easy.... you really can skip the breadboard and solder the components directly on the chip... it's no big deal.
I try to be funny but I get the feeling that some people don't get the joke and think I'm just being an ---uvula---.
mahuti:
--- Quote --- solder the components directly on the chip
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Soldering is my happy place.
--- Quote --- just being an ---uvula---.
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Underrated pastime.
I saw the other thread on the GSB mod and I think I may have to do it. After 300 other projects are finished.
KenToad:
I got the joke, Howard. No one got my joke about Mike being one in a million, it seems. Anyway, I'm pretty sure it's all good. I've been on this forum for over 15 years. I know that you guys are mostly awesome. Gotta be some reason that I've stuck around. :)
The HD Retrovision Genesis cable and adapter arrived today. It looks stunning on my CRT, as expected. It doesn't look significantly sharper than my S-video cable for the SNES, so I'm glad I didn't spring for the SNES version. The SNES and Genesis cables are still way too expensive and limited, but you can tell that they are a quality product just by holding them. They feel a lot sturdier than your typical cheap cables. I will admit that, if there were cheap quality clone cables for half the price, I would have gone that route.
*Edit* Here's a crazy bonus: My light phaser is more accurate now. Before, hooked up through cheap composite cables and a switcher, the shots always fell to left the barrel. Now, they are pretty much dead on with the sights. That's amazing. I wonder if there was some slight delay caused by the old connection setup?
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