Salvaging best cabling

[korpse413]

Anyone know where one might find high quality shielded cable for use with console mods and/or scart?

I am lucky enough to be in a workplace with a lot of old equipment (IT setting) where I could scavenge a few cables from parts like old VGA, DVI or even DP. Honestly Im not sure where to look first, im kind of clueless. Does it even matter at the end of the day?

I have an N64RGB board and SNES 1CHIP bypass that I want to complete for myself.

In the past I've used floppy cable, but those

[Lawfer]

Anyone know where one might find high quality shielded cable for use with console mods and/or scart?

High quality cables? Like Nordost, Furutech, Oyaide and the likes? That level of quality, you won't find it among the 2-3 retro gaming cable sellers, it's all pretty entry-level really.

Readily available on the market, retrogamingcable.co.uk's "PACKAPUNCH" cables is as good as it gets right now:

https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk/ind ... PACKAPUNCH

[gray117]

Doesn't matter. No easy answer. Just depends on the physical quality of the cable + shielding (+ connection head/ unless re-wiring this yourself).

Most common alternative in past will be vga option, and better bet to *likely* find sufficient shielding for analogue signals + most people not going to miss you appropriating this cable these days.

With vga you've got 15 pins / wires - assuming fully wired (usually the case, but not always).

You essentially need a wire each for R, G, B, sync and ground for most 15khz video purposes ... maybe further options would be +blanking (scart) or + extra sync (if Horizontal and Vertical seperate) + audio (L) + audio (R)

If you're using the same cables for controller wiring you've got L, R, U, D, Ground, Start, Select, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ...

[mvsfan]

I think an old IEEE parallel cable is well shielded. youve got 25 wires to work with there.

[Syntax]

Use ribbon for the digital connections and some thin rca leads for the analog connections.

Suggesting vga for it's shielding properties is a bit Nah, the cable is too thick for mods and opened its just a thin shield twisted around a wire, uninsulated. No good for mods.

Keep digital as far away from analog as you can.

[buttersoft]

I think an old IEEE parallel cable is well shielded. youve got 25 wires to work with there.

25 wires shielded from each other, though?

Suggesting vga for it's shielding properties is a bit Nah, the cable is too thick for mods and opened its just a thin shield twisted around a wire, uninsulated.

Eh? VGA cables vary greatly in quality, but some of the older, thicker, softer black ones use properly screened and insulated coax for the RGB lines. That's actually some of the best stuff i've found, though i will admit using a good chunky component cable is better quality-wise. But try fitting those last into an HD15 backshell