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This has been quite helpful. Thank you. I just ordered my HAS and looking forward to it. My girlfriend is excited I won't be bringing anymore full size cabinets into the house
 
stylecity said:
This has been quite helpful. Thank you. I just ordered my HAS and looking forward to it. My girlfriend is excited I won't be bringing anymore full size cabinets into the house
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Man, if your GF dislikes your cabinet, you should really get rid of her. The GF, of course ;). Anyway, you won't regret getting the HAS, I got mine not too long ago and its awesomeness is so high :D.
 
Ha!!! Unfortunately we can only afford a 2 bedroom place together so I gotta be nice and allow her to have her work space too.
I am super pumped to get the HAS, I have a 20" Sony trinitron flat tube crt that's practically brand new that should be perfect for this. After I put a Dell trinitron CRT in my upright I hate playing on led/LCD monitors.
 
On the topic of cables, retro_console_accessories can also make custom cables to adapt the HAS's output to other standards. I had a male mini DIN-8 to female standard DIN-8 made so I can use my existing (quite expensive) Scart RGB cable. She can also adapt to female mini DIN-9 if desired. They're $16 for a standard cable or $25 for coax. Both options are fully shielded/grounded.
 
SmokeMonster said:
On the topic of cables, retro_console_accessories can also make custom cables to adapt the HAS's output to other standards. I had a male mini DIN-8 to female standard DIN-8 made so I can use my existing (quite expensive) Scart RGB cable. She can also adapt to female mini DIN-9 if desired. They're $16 for a standard cable or $25 for coax. Both options are fully shielded/grounded.
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GREAT! I eBay messaged a person about a cable and haven't heard anything so this is really helpful.
 
SmokeMonster said:
Both options are fully shielded/grounded
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I wanted to echo this statement because low quality cables with no ground shielding present are nothing but noise/trouble.

My first SNES cable suffered from this, I had a ground wire inside the cable but zero shielding around the outside.
The results were pretty bad, some light static/crackle sounds on the audio channels and visual pulsing/lines on solid colors.

Adding a ferrite (see image below) helped reduce the noise some, but swapping out for a fully shielded cable solved it entirely.
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Ive gotten pretty good at soldering wires. Guess I could just make my own cable huh?
 
also I would like to know how I can make the undamned USB work with the HAS?
 
darksofter said:
How can we integrate a Pico psu with an on off switch to the HAS?
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You can do this by just connecting +12V, +5V, and -5V from the picoPSU to the HAS harness. If you go that route, opt for the highest wattage Pico you can afford since many PCBs need a lot of juice (CPS2 multi-kit setup for example). The Picos do not have adjustable voltage though, which would rule them out for me personally.
 
undead455 said:
another question just curious if my TV has componant in could I tap the RGB of the 8 pin mini din and plug direct
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Component is not the same as RGB, even if the cable colors are the same. RGB uses 4 cables (RGB and Sync) but component uses only 3. You can, however, take the HAS RGB signal, pass it through a video encoder (neobitz and JROK come to mind) and convert it to component. Then you can connect it to your TV and get a nice image.
 
My bad i compleatly forgot about the sync lead. I must be tired. I will look into the scaler as all the encoders seem to be out of stock everyewhere.
 
I am very jealous if those undamned db15s! I really need two for my HAS but seems like I'm going to be waiting at least a month... Who's going to send me theirs?
 
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