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Svideo Cable For DC

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I read that the japanese Svideo cable is one of the best you can get for the DC.
But they are pretty expensive. I was looking around on amazon/ebay and most of these have the svideo and composite line shared which ppl say is bad.
Are there any other Svideo only cables that anyone can recommend?

This is one of the only ones i found

https://www.ebay.com/itm/152193819997
My other Dreamcast is a Naomi 1

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Lucky for you I just got a bag of Official S-Video cables straight from Japan...send me a dm of your location and a offer and we will work out a price with shipping...if you do paypal friends and family that would be great being paypal is greedy...I also sell on eBay if you like I can DM you my two Official DC S-Video listings one is new in the box and the other is open box (without the box)..shoot me a line maybe we can work something out

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Dreamcast TV cables arent any special unless you want the VGA box and even for that kind of conection there are plenty and cheaper ones in AliExpress.

The photo you posted from a "japanese official" Is a mere 3rd party one packed in a box.

AliExpress Is your lucky friend for composite, svideo and vga cables for your console.

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I can personally recommend the one from Performance, it's still cheap last I checked

Be wary of generic cheap s video cables, as while they're not always bad, sometimes they're really awful

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killer-elite wrote:Lucky for you I just got a bag of Official S-Video cables straight from Japan...
Im going to check out the performance one first see how it goes once im done with my GDemu build.
i will be running it through a retrotink2x. If i have issues ill hyu about that cable.
Whats ur ebay seller name btw?

Dakangel wrote:The photo you posted from a "japanese official" Is a mere 3rd party one packed in a box.
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Never said that was an official one, i said those were expensive. The one i linked is $6.
That isnt expensive LOL

Ragfish wrote:I can personally recommend the one from Performance, it's still cheap last I checked

Be wary of generic cheap s video cables, as while they're not always bad, sometimes they're really awful
I just saw your review, going to give this a try. Cheap enough to try.
Thanks
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MountainDewFKR wrote:
killer-elite wrote:Lucky for you I just got a bag of Official S-Video cables straight from Japan...
Im going to check out the performance one first see how it goes once im done with my GDemu build.
i will be running it through a retrotink2x. If i have issues ill hyu about that cable.
Whats ur ebay seller name btw?

Dakangel wrote:The photo you posted from a "japanese official" Is a mere 3rd party one packed in a box.
.
Never said that was an official one, i said those were expensive. The one i linked is $6.
That isnt expensive LOL

Ragfish wrote:I can personally recommend the one from Performance, it's still cheap last I checked

Be wary of generic cheap s video cables, as while they're not always bad, sometimes they're really awful
I just saw your review, going to give this a try. Cheap enough to try.
Thanks
my eBay handle is stashtheclash...all of my listings have "or best offer" on them so shoot me a offer...

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Why bother when there is the VGA option?

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My secondary+thirdary Dreamcasts must be s-vid (swapping between), official too really deep rich because other one I had was pathetic Naki one was looking like composhit whole time, no yellow plug neither jus very poor it is

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Caspian wrote:Why bother when there is the VGA option?
Because ill be using this for FGs. So crt is nice for the old heads.
Or i can keep it simple and run Svideo to my PVM then svideo out of the PVM to my Retrotink 5x for stream/capture.
Short answer is because we all have our own thing we want to accomplish.
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MountainDewFKR wrote: Short answer is because we all have our own thing we want to accomplish.
^ this right here, I for example refuse to play on a modern tv and need to have everything hooked up through rgb and will go through great efforts to accomplish this. Hell I even play my 360 on a crt via rgb :lol: :lol:
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