How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[MrPopo]

Seriously. Who the hell spends $90 dollars or more on a cable? You have to be out of your mind to do that.

Well to be honest some of the more rare or uncommon or even higher quality cords aren't as cheap as they should be. Guess for not selling them as fast they think they can sell them for a higher premium..

Monster cables are the biggest ripoff around. They prey on customer ignorance to make an obscene profit on their cables.

[mas]

So I should get those cheap s video cables off of eBay from like the retro companies for like 5.00 huh.

[Zing]

The purple monster s-video cables were overflowing with stock on eBay for many years, available for $15 shipped or less.

I bought some Japanese Nintendo brand cables from someone in Japan via eBay a few years ago. I paid $27 shipped, but it was worth it.

[fastbilly1]

Seriously. Who the hell spends $90 dollars or more on a cable? You have to be out of your mind to do that.

I have spent more than that before, unrelated to gaming. Here is a quick list of stupidly expensive cables I have bought:
- 100ft of 5 strand RG6 with BNC connectors - $300
- 20ft of HD-SDI cable - $1k - this was in 2002, the same cable is like $50 now
- 40 ft of 4 strand fiber with LC connectors - $200

And when it drops Ill be buying a three 12G UHD-SDI, I am just assuming the six foot length will be over $100.

Granted all of these were payed off by other people/jobs they were used on.

[mas]

Well I caved in and got the cheap av cables from my game store for 8.00. Huge improvement over the rf. If I find some multi s video cord cheap then ill get that but for now im happy. Just got mk2 and i forgot how good it looks for a port. Im actually very happy that I own a actual snes and genesis. Just keep looking out for deals and wait patiently.

[ninjainspandex]

Seriously. Who the hell spends $90 dollars or more on a cable? You have to be out of your mind to do that.

Well to be honest some of the more rare or uncommon or even higher quality cords aren't as cheap as they should be. Guess for not selling them as fast they think they can sell them for a higher premium..

Monster cables are the biggest ripoff around. They prey on customer ignorance to make an obscene profit on their cables.

So are you telling me I overpaid on my HDMI cables? I ordered 3 of them http://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest- ... 8324437192

[ExedExes]

All this talk about those silly Monster S-Video cables? I picked em up off eBay in 2012 for $9. Looks good on both the SNES and the GC (they used the same connector)

[Hobie-wan]

All this talk about those silly Monster S-Video cables? I picked em up off eBay in 2012 for $9. Looks good on both the SNES and the GC (they used the same connector)

Too bad they look terrible on N64.

[MyNameIsVince]

All this talk about those silly Monster S-Video cables? I picked em up off eBay in 2012 for $9. Looks good on both the SNES and the GC (they used the same connector)

Too bad they look terrible on N64.

I can't say if S-Video on an N64 looks terrible on a CRT television, but on a flat screen, yes they do, because the S-Video cleans up the image, and for the SNES and Gamecube, that's great, but not so much for the N64.

But then again, it makes the SNES look mostly tolerable on a flat screen (composite looks worse).

[MyNameIsVince]

Seriously. Who the hell spends $90 dollars or more on a cable? You have to be out of your mind to do that.

I have spent more than that before, unrelated to gaming. Here is a quick list of stupidly expensive cables I have bought:
- 100ft of 5 strand RG6 with BNC connectors - $300
- 20ft of HD-SDI cable - $1k - this was in 2002, the same cable is like $50 now
- 40 ft of 4 strand fiber with LC connectors - $200

And when it drops Ill be buying a three 12G UHD-SDI, I am just assuming the six foot length will be over $100.

Granted all of these were payed off by other people/jobs they were used on.

Yikes, that's a lot of feet of cable. You rigging up a 16.1 surround sound system in that 5 story mansion of yours?



JUST KIDDING.




I have no idea what most of those acronyms mean, so I just assume it's some sort of high end audio/video/etc. that I don't understand.



In all honesty, I made my statement assuming that people would be spending 90 dollars or more on essentially a 3-6 foot cable for most regular electronics, like for their television or CD player or iPod or video game console or something like that when they really shouldn't . Obviously it'll be more expensive if you're buying many feet of cable.