“I wouldn’t count on Retro Access being up and running for a LONG time. If you check their Twitter they’ve gone completely gone off the rails and can’t seem to manage to be functional as a member of society right now, let alone a business owner.”
It would probably be responsible of RetroRGB Bob and all these other places to stop listing them as one of the top go-to cable sellers… it’s a one-person operation that was always very slow with a poor business model/poor service - and now it’s not looking much like they’ll be back into the swing of things anytime REMOTELY soon, if ever”
(Let it be understood, I’m not getting a kick out of this, I feel for them)
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My condolences for their issues. Never bothered with their SCART cables, their BNC cables seem to look nice, but my Saturn DSUB cable from them was rubbish. Pin 3 (the green channel) snapped off almost immediately after only unplugging/Re plugging the cable about 3 times. Returning it was fine, getting a replacement sent was about a 6 month debacle of endless emails with almost nil response.
“VGA” style console cables are slowly raising more and more in demand (though there will inevitably always be morons thinking they can use one to connect a 15kHz console to a PC CRT), but to this date people are realizing they’re a great option to connect to switchers that are a far less cumbersome form factor than Crosspoints, et al (let alone those dummies getting SCART cables *and* female SCART to BNC cables for every frickin Crosspoint input, etc etc).
I know that guy on GitHub (forget his name) made some excellent designed open source VGA attachments for consoles AV ports, which nobody has yet to mass produce. Chipnetics made a few which are laughably overpriced and look to have VERY concerning strain relief. A certain user here made some great dongle style ones that they were selling privately via DMs (but don’t wanna blow up their spot in case they don’t make them often anymore).
Anyone had thoughts about stepping up to the plate and doing a production run of HD15 RGBS cables (with sync strippers as needed for consoles such as PS1/PS2), or are potential manufacturers of the opinion that this is still too niche of a market, even in 2023? I would make some if I could… but I’ve got hand tremors that render me essentially physically disabled, as much as I would love designing/soldering cables for gaming and old analog video gear (old broadcast VTRs et al).
Hope anyone reading this nonsense is having a good night!
