Where to find cables for backporch?

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This issue can be used to discuss where to find adequate cables. Please write your suggestions here!

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1. Mini DIN 8 to Mini DIN8:

• Kraydad has a nice selection of cables. Their "heavy duty" cables are well shielded and of excellent quality.
• Console 5 has a connector plug

2. Mini DIN 9 to Mini DIN 9 cables:

• Kraydad has them. Unfortunately, they don't have a "heavy duty" version of those, nor very short ones.
• Consoles 5 has a nice connector plug to make custom cables

3. Mini DIN 8 to SCART (Mini DIN 8 used as output)

• Retro Gaming Cables
• Retro Access

4. SCART to Mini DIN 8 (Mini DIN 8 used as input)

• Retro Gaming Cables
• Retro Access

5. DE-15 ("VGA") to BNC (for PVMs):

• These are very easy to find. Just Google "VGA to BNC"
• I like buying used Extron cables on Ebay. They are of the highest quality.

6. Connectors for many consoles

• Console 5 has a nice selection of connectors that can be used with a cut mini-din 8 or mini-DIN 9 cable to connect a console to Backporch.

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As mentioned by user BazookaBen here, HD Retrovision makes a number of adapters cables from various consoles (Playstation, Saturn, Neo Geo), to Mega-Drive / Genesis 2!.

These would work with Backporch, but they would produce a slightly dimmer (2/3 of original brightness) image than normal. This is because those consoles already have 75 Ohm resistors inside the console (which is the correct way to do it!), unlike the Mega-Drive 2 / Genesis. The same would happen if one used a standard Mega-Drive 2 to Scart cable with those adapters.

(It presumably doesn't affect HD Retrovision component cables, because I suspect they offer a high input impedance).

If there is interest, a later version of backporch could offer better compatibility with those specific adaptor cables.

In the meantime, the Neo Geo and Sega Saturn consoles should be plugged to Backporch's mini DIN 8 input instead for full brightness (the Playstation 1 is not currently supported at full brightness), for instance by cutting one of the HD Retrovision adapter cables and adding a Mini DIN 8 connector at the end instead.