Hooking Master System up to HD PVR?

[TheSegaSaturnGuy]

Alrighty, so I dont have a Genesis Model 1 AV cable but I do have a Commodore 64 AV cable and the pins look the same. Would this work or would it fry my port?

[ApolloBoy]

Alrighty, so I dont have a Genesis Model 1 AV cable but I do have a Commodore 64 AV cable and the pins look the same. Would this work or would it fry my port?

That wouldn't work, the C64 uses a slightly different pinout than the SMS/Genesis.

[Hobie-wan]

Not only that but the pins are in the shape of a U on the Genesis and a C on the C64. They aren't actually the same plug.

[ApolloBoy]

Not only that but the pins are in the shape of a U on the Genesis and a C on the C64.

Actually the C64 uses the same pin arrangement as the Genesis/SMS. Even then that's only for the top three pins and doesn't matter for an AV cable, which only has the bottom five.

[Duane Dibbley]

I record all of my retro consoles with my PVR and it records them beautifully. I had a problem initially with horrible video stuttering but I was able to fix the problem by running all of the systems through my DVD/VCR combo first then to the PVR.

Can't you just do that here? RF to the VCR, then composite to the PVR?

[Hobie-wan]

Not only that but the pins are in the shape of a U on the Genesis and a C on the C64.

Actually the C64 uses the same pin arrangement as the Genesis/SMS. Even then that's only for the top three pins and doesn't matter for an AV cable, which only has the bottom five.

Actually I was on crack. C64 (with the s-video signals) and a full Gen 1 (with pass through for 32X) are both U shaped with all the pins. It's just that the usual plug of that type is C shaped, making it harder to find if you're making your own cables. But yes, a cheap AV only Gen 1 cable might only have the bottom few. Though you'd only get audio and either black and white or green only mixing up the cables from the 2 systems.