Need some help identifying some old video game cables. These are probably 20 years old, or at least that's when I last touched them...
>>15538131st up, this beige cable. At a glance I thought "oh it's just some s-video cable". It's clearly not, it's some sort of 8-pin cable, and it's male/female. It's for, something...
>>1553814Next, this 5-pin cable is not a model 1 Genesis a/v cable. Those are mono, and this is yellow/red/white. It fits in a Genesis but fucks up the audio. People may be making similar cables for the Genesis now, but this is 20 years old, it's for another console. You might notice a flat side on the connector, it's just dented, it's supposed to be round there
>>1553815Last, this USB thing. I don't know what the fuck. I have two hints. 1, it's useless for whatever it's supposed to do, I left it sealed in its bag. 2, it is most likely some sort of Gameboy cable, I packed it specifically with my old Gameboy Link cables and my Xrom Transfer cable (haha, good thing I know what that is)
>>1553816Couple pictures cause they look like shit4 pins on each side, seem like they clamp on a connector?
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>>1553818It very much resembles USB-MINI4P, but isn't. It only has a notch on one side of the top, instead of both sides. Also nobody in my family ever bought digital cameras with weird connectors, if that's somebodies guess
commodore 64?
>>1553825Oh, I see it uses an a/v cable like this, and my c64 has been at my brother's for many many years. Perhaps he never noticed cause it uses RF too?
Hey man, Wii modding guy here.>>1553814I agree with the other guy, C64 cable. I don't have mine any more to double check and it didn't even occur to me until the other guy mentioned it but I think he's spot on.>>1553815I went to check my own Sega cables, only to realise that my Sega Mega Drive 2 is completely missing. Maybe stolen, maybe it's been thrown away or given away by my mother while my back is turned, she likes to do that to my stuff while I'm not watching. god damnit.https://www.amazon.co.uk/risingsaplings-Audio-Connection-Compatible-Genesis/dp/B0C3HZYHJG?th=1Fairly sure it's for a 1 though, maybe the audio wire is faulty.>>1553816>>1553817>>1553818>>1553819It's not an official Nintendo handheld charger cable, at any rate.Have you got a Nes or Snes Mini? You don't have the greatest pic of this one, especially not the single notch you mention, but I suspect it's for one or possibly a knockoff version of one.
>>1553833Reading some stuff on Google about Genesis/C64 cables on each other and I'm 99% sure it's itDefinitely not the Classic Mini connector on the other cable, it's way smaller, roughly around the size of mini/micro usb connectors
>>1553836Mind getting me a clearer pic of the single notch? I think that's the key to solving the 3rd cable.
>>1553837It's visible enough if you look at various USB-MINI4P pictures and then look for the difference https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002963676600.htmlI'm pretty it's the exact connector type, just lazily modified to be proprietary
>>1553838Mind giving me a clear picture of this part of the cable? All three of your pics are end on, so I can't see clearly what this side looks like.
>>1553816>>1553817>>1553818DS Action Replay cable
>>1553862Ah awesome, thanks!I forgot I had one of those. I looked at my GBC/GBA cheat devices and it wasn't them. But the DS cart is packed inside my Japanese Dragon Quest 4 box for the English codeWhile glancing at Google I even spotted the cable in the same bagThat leaves only the beige cable unsolved
>>1553833>>>1553814>I agree with the other guy, C64 cable.That can't be a C64 a/v cable. The a/v jack on C64 is an 8 pin DIN following 60574 which means seven pins in a horseshoe with pin 8 on the vertical centreline but slightly closer to the key.That one in the pic shows three very obvious rows with the central conductor vertically in the middle of the circle but offset to the right of the key notch.Another thing is look at the large flat areas on the body of the connector, that's a modern touch. Older cables used to have pure round bodies. That one has, though not clearly visible in the pic, markings on that flat section. Willing to bet they are arrows, one pointing each way along the cable.What it looks like to me is a generic Mini-DIN 8. No way you're fitting that into a C64. Used for a lot of things like AppleTalk, Sun Microsystems PC peripherals, graphics upgrade kit for a NES/Famicom. but looking like a generic component with generic markings I don't know what you'd have it for.
>>1553904This thing is huge, I can probably easily get a multimeter on it to see what connects to what Pictured, arrows, because why not
>>1553904That was easy. Outer barrel is ground or whatever I guess
>>1553917Oh, thought to check if any of the pins connect to ground. The middlemost one is ground
>>1553917DIN barrels have a just over a half inch diameter.That definitively tells you that it is also nothing to do with a C64. I don't think Commodore even used 5 pin DIN to RCA, it was 8 pin DIN using separate luminance, yellow to pin 1 but yours is to white, and chrominance, red to pin 6 but that doesn't even have a pin 6 and red is connected to pin 5.It could be a luma + chroma + mono audio device or a composite video + stereo audio device, like a VCR, laser disc player, amplifier, receiver, game console, camcorder.From an opinion point of view, an a/v device that supported chroma and luma channels probably, unlike the C64, used stereo audio too because separate video channels were a mark of high end personal use or professional equipment and you wouldn't expect mono audio there. With 3 plugs it's more likely some sort of home use composite video + stereo audio device.Nothing special about that cable. If you chuck it away and find what you think it's needed for you can make a replacement with off the shelf components if you couldn't buy a replacement.
>>1553993>That definitively tells you that it is also nothing to do with a C64. I don't think Commodore even used 5 pin DIN to RCAIf you Google for a c64 av cable the majority of the results are likehttps://www.ebay.com/itm/390257910632
>>1553814Got a PC Engine/TG16 op?https://www.retroreviewproject.com/super-cheap-turbo-duopc-engine-extension-cables/
>>1554063Oh, nice! That's almost certainly what it's for.So that's everything solved, except maybe >>1553815 which may not be a C64 cable. Maybe I'll try it at some point, though I don't care much about the C64 so god knows when
>>1554076>except maybe >>1553815 which may not be a C64 cable. Maybe I'll try it at some point, though I don't care much about the C64 so god knows whenI don't think anybody said it was a C64 cable, myself included, I said I think it's for the Sega Genesis 1.
>>1554110>don't think anybody said it was a C64 cable>>1553825>>1554024>I think it's for the Sega Genesis 1.Maybe read the thread?>>1553815>this 5-pin cable is not a model 1 Genesis a/v cable
>>1554116>Maybe read the thread?We're saying that we thought this:>>1553814is a C64 related cable, they're pretty similar but turns out it was a wrong guess.We weren't talking about this cable:>>1553815>this 5-pin cable is not a model 1 Genesis a/v cableYou can't convince me it's not one, it's the spitting image of one from the pics you've provided.
>>1554117>You can't convince me it's not oneThe model 1 Genny only routs mono out the back, to get stereo you need to fetch it from the headphone jack, perhaps if he had a system modded to accommodate this cable, but that doesn't seem likely
