Is it possible to make a sega saturn s-video cable

[treepop]

Update. Well soldering to the svideo cable was too much of a pain so I dismantled the svideo cable itself. Now I am sorta stuck. How can I tell which wire goes where!? Will I blow something up if I am wrong?

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[treepop]

Okay. I figured it out! AND!!!!!! I got it working AND! I used an old keyboard hookup to create a new plug that fits nicely into the sega saturn.

The cool thing is. A keyboard plug has 6 pins. So what I did was take the Luminence and Chromincence and put them on what would effectively be the right side of the plug. I put the grounds on the top and that leaves me with audio right and left on what would effectively be the right side of the plug. (I say effectively, because I turned the plug on its side so that the grounds would be hitting the metal ring surrounding the plug)

In this image the grounds are on the right side of the image. The Chrominence/Luminence is on the top of the image and the audio on the bottom.



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And here is a screen shot of my tv:



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Now my wife says TO BED!

Night. I hope I helped someone!

[Cronozilla]

You can use a multi-meter to measure resistance across each pin-wire. If you get a reading (and you're holding it right) then that wire goes to that pin. Otherwise you won't get a reading (it'll just stay 1, or whatever)

Update: Ah too late.

[Hobie-wan]

Since you got it working, you need to protect it and give yourself something to grab onto. Perhaps if you can find a short tube to that will slide over that plug and you can epoxy it on and also fill in epoxy inside the tube around the wires like I was saying is done on manufactured cables, that way it is protected and you have something to grab on when pulling the cable out.

[skate323k137]

Interesting to make your own plug that way. Good job grabbing sound too.

Honestly if you can solder well, I highly recommend just adding a female s-video jack to the saturn as I mentioned in this thread (if you read past my post someone does this mod):

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 1&start=10

This way, if something happens to your cable, you only have to replace a generic s-video cable. This also leaves the normal A/V port for sound using normal composite cables.

[Ziggy]

I was wanting to use my new soldering gun to possibly mod a composite cable into an s-video cable.

I hope you're not using a soldering gun. You want to be using a soldering iron for this kind of a work. A gun is way overkill, and if that's what you're using, you're lucky you didn't destroy your Saturn.

[treepop]

I was wanting to use my new soldering gun to possibly mod a composite cable into an s-video cable.

I hope you're not using a soldering gun. You want to be using a soldering iron for this kind of a work. A gun is way overkill, and if that's what you're using, you're lucky you didn't destroy your Saturn.

I have a gun, but yeah I am using a 30w pencil tip iron for this.

[treepop]

Interesting to make your own plug that way. Good job grabbing sound too.

Honestly if you can solder well, I highly recommend just adding a female s-video jack to the saturn as I mentioned in this thread (if you read past my post someone does this mod):

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 1&start=10

This way, if something happens to your cable, you only have to replace a generic s-video cable. This also leaves the normal A/V port for sound using normal composite cables.

I just cracked open my saturn. It looks like the pinout is below the power cord connector. How did you get to it? Also are there some pics online that show the mobo and where I should be soldering?

Thanks again!

[skate323k137]

You would be soldering to the points on the bottom of the motherboard where the A/V jack is soldered down.

If you look at the 10 pin plug, look at the arrangement of the rows, and where the gap is in the one row. It's basically like the pins go into the plug itself, make a 90 degree turn down through the motherboard and they're soldered on the bottom. You should be able to figure it out based on the pinout http://www.gamesx.com/avpinouts/saturnav.htm

If you can't figure it out, I may be able to crack one open and show you, but it's really not all that bad to figure out. also, 15-25 watts would be more than enough for these small points.

[treepop]

You would be soldering to the points on the bottom of the motherboard where the A/V jack is soldered down.

If you look at the 10 pin plug, look at the arrangement of the rows, and where the gap is in the one row. It's basically like the pins go into the plug itself, make a 90 degree turn down through the motherboard and they're soldered on the bottom. You should be able to figure it out based on the pinout http://www.gamesx.com/avpinouts/saturnav.htm

If you can't figure it out, I may be able to crack one open and show you, but it's really not all that bad to figure out. also, 15-25 watts would be more than enough for these small points.

Alrighty. I will check that out. And thanks for the tip on wattage I will flick the switch from 30 to 15.