Retro-Bit Sega Saturn S-Video A/V Cable

Crisp image with no noise, gets the job done. No issues with picture quality. Cables are well built. See Willy Wombat screenshots for examples.

This worked very well for plugging my Sega Saturn into my older 1080p Sony TV. I was convinced I was going to have to buy an XRGB-mini Framemeister after seeing how poor the video quality was with the composite RCA plugs (yellow, red, white). I'm glad I tried this first! I'm sure the video quality of the Framemeister would be better but overall, this is good enough that I can enjoy it and I saved myself over $300. Plus if I ever do splurge for a Framemeister, this will be a good way to connect it to that so it will still be of use. One point of confusion for me was why this cable had the yellow video cord with it. Really, it's just a duplicate so you can plug your Saturn into either s-video or composite. When you use the s-video connection, you plug that in plus the red and white for audio and that's it. If you do decide to get one of these for the upgraded signal, just make sure your TV has an s-video plug as those are getting more rare on newer TV's.

Bought this item along with an s-video to hdmi 1080p upscaler. Works beautifully picture is crisp and clear enjoying playing my saturn games all over again.

I use this with a real Sega Saturn and a Mister FPGA system with analog output, and the video quality is shockingly good. Audio is nice and crisp, connection is the best I've ever seen on such a cable, seems like it won't be damaged easily. I played through Time Crisis and a few other lightgun games on my CRT using this cable, and Panzer Dragoon looked ethereally beautiful in glorious analog. I may buy a second one as a backup, but I can't imagine I'll damage it. If you have a Saturn or a Mister FPGA system, I can't imagine you'll find better than this.

I recently got into buying S-video cables for all my video game system to get the best visual quality out of them as possible, without modifying them. While (RGB) SCART cables give the best visual quality possible in systems before the Sega Dreamcast, American TVs never had the SCART input on them, the best they had was the S-video input, thus my collecting of S-video as oppose to the SCART cables. The 1st S-Video cables I bought were for the N64. After a lot of research, general consensus said the hybrid cables with the S-Video plug and Composite plug would only have the composite signal go through both plugs, as oppose to the S-Video plug having the S-Video signal (Y/C) go through it. So I was a little worried about buying these hybrid cables for the Saturn. But it turns out the hybrid problem with the N64 doesn’t apply to the Saturn. Now a note on DITHERING: Dithering is a technique to create transparencies & increase the amount of color and shading that can be done on a system. The effect is achieved by using lines or dots which are then blurred by the video encoders that the system uses. The video encoder converts the RGB signal generated by the console's graphics processor to the YUV color space which most televisions use, which can cause artifacts that lead to blurring of adjacent pixels, particularly when the video quality is downgraded to composite. This has often been used as a cheap way to coax more color from a system's graphics processor than is usually possible. A LOT of Sega Genesis and Saturn games use the dithering technique. You can only see the effects using composite cables, the technique is lost when using the S-video cables. The transparency/shading will look like a checkerboard on S-video. See in the below picture of Die Hard Trilogy of the comparison of Composite vs. S-Video dithering. With the Saturn you have to pick your poison: get shaper graphics with horrible looking checkerboarding effect, or get a blurry image with transparency and shading. The hybrid cable is good so you can easily switch plugs on a game-by-game basis for games do or don’t use a lot the dithering technique. For example, the games I have that I’d use S-video for are Alien Trilogy & Street Fighter Alpha; games that use a lot of dithering that I own that I’d use Composite for are NiGHTS & Die Hard Trilogy.

Video using this cable on my 27" CRT looks great. No complaints. I've used cables from Retro-Bit with a bunch of my consoles and they have all worked perfectly for years.

I picked this cable up for the s-video capability, and it did not disappoint. Normally I have tried to avoid dual Composite/S-video cables because they often have checker-boarding and other artifacts that does not provide a true S-video signal, but this one does not have any of those issues. It's a very clear difference in quality between the outputs and it makes the games look amazing and sharp on my 25" crt. It's also nice to have the option to select composite for those games that use dithering heavily. The audio is also very clean with no hiss or degradation, though as some reviewers have noted the red and white plugs are reversed, this is not entirely the fault of the maker though as the schematics available for the Saturn are wrong, so I won't take off a star for that like I might do normally but I do hope later revisions will correct this issue. The build quality may not be OEM level stuff but it feels sturdy enough to last since it's a Video cable and not something you will be moving around too often, Overall nice cable and I would totally recommend to Saturn players.

Works great on my Saturn. I can definitely see the increase in fidelity when using S-Video over regular composite. I'm using a Japanese model Saturn by the way, in case there are those worried about any compatibility issues.

Me gustó mucho y a buen precio

I am using a RetroTink 2x Pro to connect my Sega Saturn to a 4K TV. I had been using a composite cable and I really couldn't enjoy the games as much as I'd like. By using this S-Video cable, I immediately noticed a great difference in video quality and clarity. Absolutely zero regrets over this purchase.

Parfait pour remplacer mon cable d'origine égaré. Je recommande ce produit sans problème. J'ai hésité au début car ce n'était pas le cable officiel mais finalement il marche bien et je n'ai eu aucun problème avec

not so lightweight that you can tell they skimped everywhere possible, but perfectly appropriately built. no issues with signal, fit perfectly, worked perfectly, 2 modes of use, you can either use the 3 RCA jacks or the 2 sound rca jacks and the s-video output if your monitor/tv supports it. worth it.

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