Comments on: Get The Best Video Quality On The Super Nintendo (SNES)

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:13:00 +0000

The way to go is to hookup 1 (only 1) computer with emulators for all the consoles though HDMI or DIV (VGA can do as well)…

Some people don’t like the filtering (HQ4s, super eagle etc.) in that case some emulators (zsnes) offer a way to simulate the artifacts of NTSC or PAL equipment if you miss the lo-fi feel of the 90s! (you can even tweak it to match whatever equipment you had… and the best thing is that you can put your old collection in a nice display without having to bother with plugging/unplugging the precious original hardware when you want to play it!

By: racketboy

racketboy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:47:23 +0000

Probably not as it’s still an analog signal….

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:46:21 +0000

I have an Olevia LCD tv and when I hook up my SNES to it, it looks ok, but it has a few milliseconds delay…when I hit the button it takes about that long for a response. I’m pretty sure this has something to do with converting analogue to digital. Will S-video solve this, do you think?

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:08:40 +0000

I recently bought a 40″ Samsung LCD TV (N8) and after trying to plug my SNES in the picture is very jumpy, and seems to flicker the whole time. ive got a RCA connector for it, and i saw somewhere that hooking the SNES to a video first, then run that to your TV should fix it, but to no avail. Any ideas how to fix this? would a S-Video cable fix it? Unfortunately i dont have a CRT tv to play on anymore, so i dont know what to do!!!

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:40:12 +0000

It’s probably also worth mentioning that whatever cabling you’re using will typically pass a cleaner picture if it’s well shielded.

Switching to double-shielded S-video cables (from non-shielded) noticeably improved my SNES picture by eliminating diagonal line interference & giving colors a generally “richer” look.

This is especially important for people who have multi-system setups with many cable runs near each other. Cheaper cables can pick up interference very easily.

So it’s not just the interface you choose, but the cable’s quality as well that should be considered.

By: kevinski

kevinski — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:31:00 +0000

anonymous, what you aren’t realizing is that most people fail to understand the concept of using higher-quality connections. Hell, my roommate runs every one of his game consoles on whatever type of connection that they came with. I, on the other hand, upgrade all of my connections to the best possible.

RF on a plasma looks like crap, and it’s a shame that more people don’t understand this. racketboy, keep up the good work.