Don´t worry,
We will check that by monday, we haven´t noticed any issue with our tvs and regular megadrive 2 cables and we thought aswel that those cables were pasive.
We are on time to change values of the resistors on the pcb as soldering process will start by thursday but we don´t think those are needed at all.
At worst scenario we will build 100% pasive cables and everyone is happy but i don´t think we are going to need that at all.
We have to open our cables and see if those have resistors or not, be patient please. I am not the tech head but NEODEV has it shorted
Rot, thats ok.
i wont to mess your work but we are ok with everyone asking about things and showing concerns.
Our hardware is designed to be used with a 100% pasive cable.
We never realized mega drive 2 cables had resistors until yesterday, we understand this may cause an issue on some setups but we never had those issues using mega drive 2 cables on our tvs.
So we will open our cables, and do some tests by monday.
If we see the need of put a 100% pasive cable with each SD System 3, we will do, respecting the sales price without any rise.
No problem about that, everyone will be happy.
End of drama
A Mega Drive 2 cable absolutely is supposed to have components in them!! 470Ohm on the sync line, coupling capacitors & 75Ohm resistors on the RGB lines. If it doesn't it's improperly constructed and in fact not compatible with an actual Mega Drive 2 or standard SCART device. For instance, like you mentioned before, both the Mega Drive and your device outputs TTL level csync. A OSSC / normal European SCART TV does not accept TTL level csync so there needs to be a resistor in the cable.
'Works on my TV' is not a good metric. There's absolutely no question about what a Mega Drive 2 outputs, what components should be in the cable and what voltage levels are correct on the SCART connector. Anything else and you risk results from image quality problems to equipment failure.
See here for properly constructed Mega Drive 2 cables containing the right capacitors and resistors:
https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk...e-2-sega-genesis-2-rgb-av-scart-cable-tv-lead
https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-seller-...RT-cable-with-Csync-no-jailbars-/201309414919
If you open your cables and there are no resistors and capacitors in them, you have defective cables. If your device only works with cables that lack these components, you are not compatible with Mega Drive 2 cables and need to change the device or cable specification.
Just ordered mine from UK paying by mastercard credit card, no issues.
Anyway awesome product guys! Congratulations!! ...although it'll be a shame to relegate the cd/briefcase unit I put together from junk purchases...getting the silver rf box off the core pcb was was a burnt fingers low point..
I wish all these autistic cable fagets would kill themselves.
I’m in the USA and was able to complete the transaction via Visa just now. At first attempt it was denied by my bank but you have to get to a screen that asks if you want to pay US dollars or Euros first to know if it’s your bank or the site that is not working. Once I was able to get to that screen I got a fraud alert text alert that I was able to verify and after that it went through smoothly. Both attempts yesterday only got me as far as the checkout screen where I put in my CC and error’d with contact merchant. Both of those attempts it was the merchant side (as he reported max sales were reached at that time.) This did not work at all earlier this morning either so it appears to be working now if any one else state side is ready to give it another try.
I just got the merchant side error. Not even getting far enough to get the fraud alert. Two different visa cards with different banks if it makes a difference.
My two friends working on the BBVA were able to source the issue.
We have set a daily sales limit to USA, just to USA
We also have a rule that blocks any transaction that is highter than 900 euros, this may be blocking some transactions.
if you buy 900 euros with a card you will not be able to buy more with the same card on the same day.
So by monday those rules are going to be changed/removed, in the meanwhile we have to deal with those unfortunally.
Sorry for the inconvenience, we have a really high sales number per day on the payment system but we were not expecting those numbers we are having at all.
Sounds like you guys have a real winner on your hands. 'Grats.
Neosd/Neodev,
You're products are obviously excellently designed & manufactured, while at the same time your company is relatively new to this particular 'scene'. I'm sure there is a lot of fascinating history behind your company and its ethos. Is there a chance that in the future there could be a 'behind the scenes' look at how this all came about? You've mentioned some of the information in the forum and on chat, but I think the community would be interested.
Maybe it is just me?
Are you planning on selling these through
StoneAgeGamer like the neosd?
Hi Neosd
For someone who hasn’t done it before, Do you have any recommendations on a programme for ripping my cd games and prepping my folders ahead of time?
Hi Neosd
For someone who hasn’t done it before, Do you have any recommendations on a programme for ripping my cd games and prepping my folders ahead of time?
Hi Neosd
For someone who hasn’t done it before, Do you have any recommendations on a programme for ripping my cd games and prepping my folders ahead of time?
A Mega Drive 2 cable absolutely is supposed to have components in them!! 470Ohm on the sync line, coupling capacitors & 75Ohm resistors on the RGB lines. If it doesn't it's improperly constructed and in fact not compatible with an actual Mega Drive 2 or standard SCART device. For instance, like you mentioned before, both the Mega Drive and your device outputs TTL level csync. A OSSC / normal European SCART TV does not accept TTL level csync so there needs to be a resistor in the cable.
'Works on my TV' is not a good metric. There's absolutely no question about what a Mega Drive 2 outputs, what components should be in the cable and what voltage levels are correct on the SCART connector. Anything else and you risk results from image quality problems to equipment failure.
See here for properly constructed Mega Drive 2 cables containing the right capacitors and resistors:
https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk...e-2-sega-genesis-2-rgb-av-scart-cable-tv-lead
https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-seller-...RT-cable-with-Csync-no-jailbars-/201309414919
If you open your cables and there are no resistors and capacitors in them, you have defective cables. If your device only works with cables that lack these components, you are not compatible with Mega Drive 2 cables and need to change the device or cable specification.
thanks, i know that retrogamingcables builds good cables, i have already bought cables there.
Do you think that this cable could be good?
http://www.ebay.it/itm/Sega-Mega-Dr...969356?hash=item3cca4b494c:g:n10AAOSwstxVAgvv
Our hardware is designed to be used with a 100% pasive cable.
We never realized mega drive 2 cables had resistors until yesterday, we understand this may cause an issue on some setups but we never had those issues using mega drive 2 cables on our tvs.
So we will open our cables, and do some tests by monday.
If we see the need of put a 100% pasive cable with each SD System 3, we will do, respecting the sales price without any rise.
No problem about that, everyone will be happy.
We are on time to change values of the resistors on the pcb as soldering process will start by thursday but we don´t think those are needed at all.
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