HDgaming42 wrote:If you wouldn't run from the Hu, what would you do, and what benefit might I see? These jailbars are really bumming me out.
If it were me, I'd just not run the black wiring underneath the pins of those Hudson branded chips. Although it doesn't look as neat, it's better to not tack the wiring down to the PCB, not routed through a row of chip legs, etc. because it's all potential noise.
I also wouldn't have a long ream of unshielded signal output wire stuck down like that, over the audio output circuitry no less, but that's just me.
Going with composite video over c-sync is not the end of the world at least, if anything it's at least 75 ohm attenuated if it's being pulled from the stock video-out point, which it appears to be. Can't say with absolute certainty if this is the case with the Turbo Duo but on the Turbografx c-sync is supplied to the expansion bus without any protection circuitry right from the source chip (Hu6260). You do NOT want to hook that up directly to anything, it has to be conditioned and amplified. For the TG16, composite video at least has a few resistors and transistors in between output and the source chip, so that's my default go-to for sync on that system.