Got a Sony Trinitron CRT. Now What?

[StriderNo9]

Hey all,

So I've gone this far down the rabbit hole so I might as well keep going. I picked up a Super Retro Trio the other week and to my surprise hooking it up to my HD TV was a terrible experience. After reading up on the whole situation here and on other random places on the internet, I decided the best possible solution for me would be to get a CRT. So I found a Sony Trinitron KV-27FV15. But now that I've gone this far I decided eh I might as well dig out my old systems and play them instead of the Super Retro Trio.

So now I have my consoles at the moment a Genesis, SNES, and NES. My TV does S-Video and Composite. Whats the best hook up for the consoles to make them look the best they can? I don't have any SCART ports on the TV as far as I can tell (but I should check again to make sure, in case someone here already knows about this model) so I assume S-Video is my best option right?

[BazookaBen]

First off, ditch the Super Retro Trio. All it does is rip the ROM from the cart and run it through an emulator. You'd be better off using an emulator on actual PC.

As far as you real consoles go, the best you can do at the moment is S-video from you SNES, and Composite from you NES and Genesis. Genesis does output RGB though, so if you can find a transcoder that can change RGB to S-video, that might be worth shot.

Your manual is on the Sony site by the way: https://docs.sony.com/release/KV27FV15.PDF

I see the larger models have component. I wonder if you could hack it in with a sevice manual and soldering iron....

[StriderNo9]

Actually the Super Retro Trio is a true console clone, it doesn't emulate. I think you might be thinking about the RetroN 5 which I used to have but as you said, I didn't like the idea of running an emulator, for that I'd use the ones I have on my PC. But otherwise yes, I plan to buy a SNES and a NES. I already have the Genesis. S-Video, Composite and Composite.

Thanks for the link to the manual. That's super helpful.

[Josh128]

Hey all,

So I've gone this far down the rabbit hole so I might as well keep going. I picked up a Super Retro Trio the other week and to my surprise hooking it up to my HD TV was a terrible experience. After reading up on the whole situation here and on other random places on the internet, I decided the best possible solution for me would be to get a CRT. So I found a Sony Trinitron KV-27FV15. But now that I've gone this far I decided eh I might as well dig out my old systems and play them instead of the Super Retro Trio.

So now I have my consoles at the moment a Genesis, SNES, and NES. My TV does S-Video and Composite. Whats the best hook up for the consoles to make them look the best they can? I don't have any SCART ports on the TV as far as I can tell (but I should check again to make sure, in case someone here already knows about this model) so I assume S-Video is my best option right?

Are you the same chap who posted the distorted NES graphics on the Everdrive cart through the Retro Trio over on AVSforums? If so, did you get an SVideo to component converter and if so, how did the SVideo look?

If you are not, my suggestion was to use an SVideo cable!!

[bobrocks95]

I see the larger models have component. I wonder if you could hack it in with a sevice manual and soldering iron....

I'm sure it could be done by reconstructing the missing circuitry, but it's incredibly far from worth it. OP should just pick up another Trinitron if he/she really wants component.

[BazookaBen]

Actually the Super Retro Trio is a true console clone, it doesn't emulate.

Doesn't matter, it's still a console on a chip, and I doubt Retro-Bit has the resources to fully reverse engineer the NES,SNES, and Genesis. After 20 years, the people making emulators still haven't fully reverse engineered these systems.

I mean, I'm sure it works well enough, maybe the graphics are fine and just a few sound effects are in the wrong pitch or something. But if you're on this forum, I think you care enough about accuracy to forget about consoles on a chip.

I'm sure it could be done by reconstructing the missing circuitry, but it's incredibly far from worth it. OP should just pick up another Trinitron if he/she really wants component.

Yeah, true.

[StriderNo9]

All valid points, I was just pointing out that technically it's not a emulator. Either way I did decide to ditch the Trio and dig out my old consoles. So thanks