Definitely possible. Maplin might be able to help.
I'm at work so I can't check, but a search on eBay for "megadrive scart" might do it.
BTW, I love stuff like that. I'm sure there's an old Spectrum, Megadrive and PS1 kicking around somewhere...
Hello all I am a bit of a retro junkie and found someone selling an Sega Mega Drive (16MB of gaming pleasure!) so I bought it.
Overjoyed I rushed home to play it, there is only one problem, in 1988 HDTV, and S-Video and Scart wasn't around and my TV seems to be completely devoid of a RF socket (Though it has 3 HDMI sockets wich is overkill to be honest) but it does have AV sockets.
Here is my question: Can you convert a RF feed to AV cables or Even a scart or am I completely goosed and have to get an old TV for my guilty pleasure?
Definitely possible. Maplin might be able to help.
I'm at work so I can't check, but a search on eBay for "megadrive scart" might do it.
BTW, I love stuff like that. I'm sure there's an old Spectrum, Megadrive and PS1 kicking around somewhere...
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I think Sky boxes and I would guess any Cable boxes will have an RF input. Mine does.
We did try putting the RF through the skybox but had no idea how to get that onto the TV, any ideas?
If your television is capable of receiving analogue TV it will have an RF input, the socket the TV aerial is plugged into...
The TV doesn't recieve Anaolgue Tv it has a digibox built in and there is no Aerial going into the back of the tv.
OTOH there are tv devices that will allow the pictures (and analogue TV) to be displayed on a PC. These may be obtainable cheap as they are going out of style.
You can make one yourself. Do you have an old scart lead you can hack up?
Edit :- Just found a page via google on how to do it, then lost it again. will post the link in a mo.
Last edited by Lee Bartholomew; 5th-November-2009 at 05:01 PM.
cheers guys, google isn't doing much here to be honest.
I could easily obtain a Scart cable, you can get them two to the donzen now.
bigdjiver I never thought of that option...I will look into it!
I dunno - I'm pretty sure my oldish VCR will take a TV aerial input and output Scart. I think the idea of an old VCR is a good one.
I think you basically need something with a tuner to make RF into pictures - the signal from an aerial simultaneously has information on several frequencies, so you need a tuner to pick the right one.
So there's unlikely to be converter gizmo that converts a simple input into a simple output, unless there's a control to select a frequency.
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Does the Sega Mega Drive had an RF output (old TV Aerial), or an AV output (yellow single-pin socket), or a round DIN socket?
AV to SCART is pretty easy - you should be able to get cables from Maplin
RF to SCART is not possible, as the SCART doesn't have any pins for RF signals. You need a tuner to turn the RF signal into a composite signal. As suggested, an old video should do the trick.
The DIN plug contains both a composite and RGB output, but you would need a specific cable such as at:
http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/sega...e-hardware.htm
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I had a good look behind the TV today and realised there is a RF socket but it has a black cable plugged in and couldn't see it in the shade.... sorry guys but thanks for the info and I am considering getting a scart so I dont have to faf about behind the TV every time I want to play it
That cable may be the aerial cable.
Digital TV is still (mostly) transmitted via RF - radio frequency - so will have an RF input, which is typically received by an aerial (a satellite dish is just a big aerial). The question is how the image data is encoded in the RF signal. Old games (and computers) use analogue encoding, effectively same as pre-digital TV signals. Basically, if you can receive non-digital TV, you can tune that set to decode the signal from a game. I'm not sure if new TVs have removed the analogue decoders, but you wouldn't have to go back very far to find a TV with one.
The best advice I can offer is if you really like retro, then get a retro TV to go with the retro console (and pay to maintain it). Otherwise, get an emulator for a digital platform.
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