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.

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.

Works perfectly. I'm using this along with a composite and s-video to VGA converter to connect my saturn to my hd lcd tv. The saturn actually looks very nice on most games with this setup upconverted to 800x600 on my 1080p tv.

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.

Good cable worked as intended

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.

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.

I bought 2 and the same pin broke on both, on two different consoles. Both times the pin was stuck inside the console’s video port. I’ve never had a pin break with any other cable.