Nintendo - Custom Video Output

[thermodan]

Can someone tell me how this pinout can be used with a monitor/tv ?
http://www.gamesx.com/misctech/mypin.htm

I can't see how you can just plug this into a VGA port and get it to work ??

[NFG]

Just push really hard.

Why on earth would you try to put it into a VGA port?

[Endymion]

Count first . . . on both ends of what you are trying to use.

[thermodan]

My point exactly: why on earth would you try to put it into a VGA port ??

Isn't Jim Christy saying he uses this 9-pin pinout for one end of his custom AV cable; and for the other end he uses the standard Nintendo MultiAV plug that plugs into a SNES/N64/GCN ?
(As per: http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=av:nintendomultiav ) ??


If so, then, what does the 9-pin end plug into ?
(another cable that then plugs in to a monitor ??)

Sorry, I'm missing something obvious here.
Someone please help.......

[NFG]

If so, then, what does the 9-pin end plug into ?
(another cable that then plugs in to a monitor ??)

Asked and answered.

[Endymion]

About 9-pin, there actually is a 9-pin D-sub that used VGA, but near as I know it was quickly superceded by the 15-pin standard. I have a couple of broadcast monitors that use the 9-pin.

[GZeus]

That's CGA, and it's Digital.

This 9-pin is something he mods his systems to have. What he puts on the end that connects to TV-like objects is an unknown.

Why he decided to put it on this site is honestly beyond me.

I find it akin to me posting a video of the order I like to put the air in my tires.

[NFG]

That's CGA, and it's Digital.

Many older systems used a 9pin analogue VGA connector.  Not just Japanese computers like the Teradrive either, systems released in the Western world too.

[Endymion]

What Lawrence said--I've used my 9-pin d-sub with my Genesis, SNES and Sega Saturn, and none of those are digital.

[GZeus]

What Lawrence said--I've used my 9-pin d-sub with my Genesis, SNES and Sega Saturn, and none of those are digital.

What???

CGA is the most common 9-pin video format to my knowledge. It's not analog in the least.

What on earth are YOU talking about?

[NFG]

GZeus: Just because the connector LOOKS like CGA, doesn't mean it IS CGA.  There IS a 9-pin VGA standard, Sega/IBM used it with the Teradrive.

That we're using the same connector with a custom pinout for custom applications has nothing to do with anything.  Your experience with CGA is useless for the purposes of this discussion.

[kendrick]

To reiterate what Lawrence has said, the physical type of connector does not in any way represent the type of connection. Otherwise, all 9-pin connectors would be able to accept Atari joysticks. :) At GamesX, we flaunt standards and use pin connectors as we see fit.

-KKC

[GZeus]

GZeus: Just because the connector LOOKS like CGA, doesn't mean it IS CGA.  There IS a 9-pin VGA standard, Sega/IBM used it with the Teradrive.

That we're using the same connector with a custom pinout for custom applications has nothing to do with anything.  Your experience with CGA is useless for the purposes of this discussion.

I never said that.

Don't put words in my mouth.

CGA is more common IN THE USA AND EUROPE than the other standards you mentioned.

Nothing connects to CGA any more.

What if it's not CGA? maybe it's EGA? DOESN"T MATTER. STILL OBSOLETE.

He doesn't know what he's doing yet, so maybe I shouldn't be linking him to 12 different Wikipedia entries of possible pinouts of monitors he doesn't have access to.

There's a 99% chance that any monitor with a 9pin on it that this person gets WILL NOT WORK.
As such, I think it would be better to educate on refresh rates(or Lawrence could just bitch at them for not reading the primer and still not block unregistered posters) and upscan convertos rather than whine back and forth.

Excuse me for trying to move things along, and get the whole "how to I plug my SNES into my conputer" argument even I've gotten sick of overwith.

[blackevilweredragon]

what, that EXT port on my Genesis is CGA?!  Wow!!

(just kidding)