opa wrote:Out of curiosity, how much of a challenge would it be to make my own s-video cable considering I have zero experience?
It wouldn't be a bad first project to learn to solder. And the actual soldering part is easy, it's learning how to have a third hand that's the real challenge. You'd have to strip a few wires and solder them to lugs, which is relatively easy compared to other hand soldering tasks. That's it in a nutshell.
Here's the primer video for soldering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpkkfK937mUThe above video does a real good job explaining the principles of soldering, and it's only a few minutes long! After that, I recommend just searching "soldering tutorial" on YouTube, there's a lot of great videos. Watch a few of them. EEVBlog has a good 3-part tutorial. Most of them are geared toward soldering components onto PCBs, which is great, but that's not what you'd be doing to make this AV cable. The multi AV plug will have pins that you have to solder the wires onto. The method you want to use is tin both pieces separately then join them together. So you'd tin the pin of the AV connector, tin the wire, then heat the pin back up and introduce the tinned wire.
Here's a good video explaining this method (just pretend one wire is the AV connector pin):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPF4wpXX9QA few more videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM6rqVRMxXs ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opMBIIB6l1MYou're not gonna bother with heat shrink tubing though, or any insulation for that matter. The plastic case that surrounds the multi AV connector IS the insulation. You just have to make sure you don't make any bridged connection when you're putting it together, but you don't have to insulate each connection because they're not gonna move inside the plug.
Nintendo multi AV plug:
https://console5.com/store/nintendo-sne ... epair.htmlOr, you can just use one from a cheap cable, like eBay item number 263444253101.
As for the rest of the cable, it's up to you! Obviously, don't grab cheap cables (why bother). You have a few options. You can get pre-made S-Video cables and cut one end off. Or you could buy the connectors and shielded wire and build the entire thing yourself.