Will this adapter work with MiSTer?

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Will this adapter work with MiSTer?

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I have a crt tv with av and s-video (female),

can I use this adapter to connect the vga end on my mister io board and the svideo end with another cable directly to my tv?

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=2509
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Re: Will this adapter work with MiSTer?

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No, this is for special graphics cards that have support for this. The IO board doesn't output chroma or luma signals needed for s-video and does not output composite as well.

This adapter is made for the MiSTer in mind

https://www.antoniovillena.es/store/pro ... o-adapter/

This is what you really should get if you want composite or s-video
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Re: Will this adapter work with MiSTer?

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redsteakraw wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:42 pm No, this is for special graphics cards that have support for this. The IO board doesn't output chroma or luma signals needed for s-video and does not output composite as well.

This adapter is made for the MiSTer in mind

https://www.antoniovillena.es/store/pro ... o-adapter/

This is what you really should get if you want composite or s-video
do you know if this is manually made by this person or is it sold by other manufacturers?

Maybe I would try to find it on ali a similar one, 35 euros + shipping + tax is quite expensive for me.
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Re: Will this adapter work with MiSTer?

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pbsk8 wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:58 pm
redsteakraw wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:42 pm No, this is for special graphics cards that have support for this. The IO board doesn't output chroma or luma signals needed for s-video and does not output composite as well.

This adapter is made for the MiSTer in mind

https://www.antoniovillena.es/store/pro ... o-adapter/

This is what you really should get if you want composite or s-video
do you know if this is manually made by this person or is it sold by other manufacturers?

Maybe I would try to find it on ali a similar one, 35 euros + shipping + tax is quite expensive for me.
Well if you want a cheaper solution you could use an HDMI to composite / svideo adapters. I have used this for TV just not gaming. I don't know how much lag it will introduce but they do work.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GVDWGK8/
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Re: Will this adapter work with MiSTer?

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redsteakraw wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 2:05 pm
pbsk8 wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:58 pm
redsteakraw wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:42 pm No, this is for special graphics cards that have support for this. The IO board doesn't output chroma or luma signals needed for s-video and does not output composite as well.

This adapter is made for the MiSTer in mind

https://www.antoniovillena.es/store/pro ... o-adapter/

This is what you really should get if you want composite or s-video
do you know if this is manually made by this person or is it sold by other manufacturers?

Maybe I would try to find it on ali a similar one, 35 euros + shipping + tax is quite expensive for me.
Well if you want a cheaper solution you could use an HDMI to composite / svideo adapters. I have used this for TV just not gaming. I don't know how much lag it will introduce but they do work.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GVDWGK8/
The HDMI to composite adapters are often really bad in terms of quality, lag, or even whether or not they work, unfortunately. It's a dice roll. Antonio's product over S-Video is known to work well, the composite apparently has been improved in his newest iteration so that's also probably a more safe bet.
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Re: Will this adapter work with MiSTer?

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I wouldn't hold your breathe for composite, Antonios board has a lot of limitations, any arcade core or neogeo etc will look awful no matter how much is improved. SNES, GENESIS, NES should all look decent but without a way to tune the NTSC crystal some of the cores will still shimmer. You can get around that with adding a trim capacitor and an external NTSC crystal but you don't get ride of the major problem you only reduce the rainbow shimmering.

Just stick to svideo for now
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