So I figured before I start developing on the Genny I should at least give it the pleasure of doing it over composite rather than use a shitty RF switch each time. So here is the final result. It could have been done a lot better, but I was using a composite jack from an old DVR (Thanks DirecTV!) and then a 2-line telephone cord.
Here is the initial start. Stripped the telephone wire to reveal the 4 wires (red, green, yellow, black). I used the phone cable because it is relatively flat already and it acted as a giant cable tie.
Here is the bottom side of the a/v connector on the backside of the Genesis model 1. I used the yellow wire as the line for straight composite video. Black is used for the common ground for the whole installation. I did NOT grab the audio from the proprietary a/v connector because it is solely muxed mono sound.
Here are the only points on the entire Genesis board that has split stereo. It is located directly under the headphone jack located in the front of the system. The red line (Pin 2) is audio right and the green line (Pin 3) is audio left. Unfortunately, the audio from these points are controlled via the headphone volume slider located on the front of the system.
Here is the complete installation with the Genesis still wide open to tape the excess wire down.
Here is a close up of the composite jacks super glued to the backside of the case.
Sweet, delicious, clean video with excellent audio.
2 comments:
Very cool!
Why would you do this to an original Genesis?
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