RCA connector

Oh, no.

First, I bought a shitty RCA TV when I moved to Toronto.

that didn't even have jacks.

I bought it thinking it had RCA jacks.

This motherfucker only had an RF input.

That's how cheap it was, baby.

So, for example, if you're going into something like OSSC, OSSC Pro, or RetroTINK, all you have to do is pull audio from the console and then route it to whatever the corresponding audio input is.

And in cases like the NES, you would just use the RCA jack on the side.

In the Master System, for the regular SMS1, you would just use a composite video cable and just leave off composite and only use the audio side.

Now, if you're running a Master System 2, or, to your question, the Atari 2600, that's where things do get a little more complicated in that you have to tap audio from somewhere on the motherboard.

So that exact same board with all the other components deleted off that slides right over just the two pins that you need you solder just two pins so which would be audio and ground from the bottom of the tia chip and then it would have two pads on it where you would just take a shielded cable and solder it there so that would mean like you would get a 10 or 12 foot shielded cable from amazon cut it in half and then solder ground and signal, one to, well, you'd run it through the bottom of the cable, or the case first, of course, run it through the metal shielding, and then run one of them to the LumaCode board and the other to audio, and just use a sharpie or something to color the cable so you know which one is which, and that would be it.

So...

For consoles that don't automatically output audio via a cable or just an RCA jack, you have to do some kind of soldering, but I'm trying to figure out how to make that super easy on every installation that I do, because I genuinely think Lumicode is going to be the go-to mod for a lot of people.

Not everybody, of course, but a lot of people.

That I would recommend.

I have very little experience with RCA cables.

I do mostly fully balanced.

That opens the door to an interesting question.

Basically, this board just has power and a D sub output.

And then of course an input for the RCA cable for LumaCode.

On the board itself is a switch that toggles between RGB, component video, or sync on green, which probably nobody is going to use, but it didn't cost anything extra to add, so CopperDragon figured why not.

And then it also has two buttons.

All of the settings that you have for dialing in phase on these consoles will save.

And all of that saves even after a firmware update, which I also demoed as well.

The D-Sub output is also exactly what we want in that you just need a basic VGA to RCA adapter for component video.

You could use any Mr.

Take an AutoAnswer SIP phone, a Grandstream Budgetone or GXP2000, a Snom, an Astra, a Polycom, a Cisco 7940 or 7960.

Splice an RCA or 3.5mm jack in place of the built-in speaker.

Feed that into a traditional paging amplifier.

Total investment, about $80 for the phone, the wire, and the connectors, and you have a basic paging system at your office.

And there's some cables that are just such rarefied air.

Weird adapters from... early video capture cards that were using RCA jacks going into something that looks like a DB9 jack or some proprietary connectors.

At some point, I just got pretty ruthless and started getting rid of all that.

I kept the USB cables, I kept the video cables of various flavors.

Oh, man.

Now, video cables are kind of a strange breed because you have television, you have HDTV, then you also have PC monitors, all at which point in time use different cables, right? Right.

you know, you can safely, I can safely say that I no longer need RCA video cables or S video cables, or am I being incredibly, uh, diluted in thinking that I'll find that one magical

CRT.

So that can play a factor as well.

How many wires do you use in your setup? Like different individual wires connecting, like RCA cords and all that stuff.

I've accumulated a mass of RCA cables.

We call them composite video cables.

There you