pics needed of Official PAL Scart cable.

[rossdaboss]

Could someone post some pics of Official PAL Scart cable.

[tn0w]

I might have one, Ill post here if I find it

[tn0w]

This is what mine looks like, there is no sega written on the cable but I think It is the official one.





I'ts a pretty thick cable and the scart has not all the pins, which the saturn doesn't need offcourse.

[MIK]

tn0w, to me that is not the official one you have when looking at mine.


Here's the one that came with my Model 1 Saturn and I can assure you it's 100% official. The locking screw is the thing that sets it apart from other scart cables.

[rossdaboss]

hmm Ok I have 3 rgb scart cables.
1) Looks like tn0w's one and has a 7pin mini-din. Does yours have a 7pin?
2) Looks like a Japanese scart and has a 10 pin mini-din, but looks like it has been modified to work on pal TVs.
3) 3rd party scart from www.consolegoods.co.uk/

Now I need to decide what one to keep?

[rossdaboss]

just saw your post mik, I have that scart as well... so which is the official one?

[zyrobs]

Both of those are official.

The cable with the screw is the earlier cable, came with Model 1s and maybe early model 2s as well. It has worse shielding, so it has notable audio buzzing. Less than most cheap play-asia/consolegoods cables though, and the picture quality is perfect.

The cable with the regular Scart head is the later cable. I'm not sure at what point they started packaging it with the Saturn, it's pretty difficult to keep track of that now, 20 years later. You can identify that cable by the fact that it is very thick, has ferrite beads on both ends, the SCART plug only has the necessary pins (the screwed-on cable only has just the needed ones), and if you disassemble it, you can see that the insides are properly soldered with a lot of shrink tubing everywhere. This cable has perfect video and almost zero audio buzzing.

The problem with both of them is that after so many years, the cables on the mini-din side get broken, and this is difficult to repair.

There are also Japanese RGB cables, those are not SCART but RGB21, same physical connector but different pinout. Also I'm not sure if they use composite or c-sync, if they use c-sync, they are positively dangerous to use on PAL units (c-sync is replaced by 9v on the PAL a/v out).

[MIK]

Apr 10, 2013 18:40:51 GMT rossdaboss said:

just saw your post mik, I have that scart as well... so which is the official one?

Mine is one of the official PAL scart leads.

This one:

100% this came with model 1 PAL Saturn's as I'm an original launch day owner of the machine, well 2 days early in fact and posted my till receipt of my machine some time ago on here. My model 2 saturn came with one also.

[tn0w]

I bought a boxed model 1 saturn from someone who took real care of it and kept it complete.
And this cable came with it, so I'm not 100% sure. but the way zyrobs describes it, i think it is official.

[rossdaboss]

It looks like I will be keeping those 2.
Thanks everyone