How to play a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) on a Samsung 4K TV via RF
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Hi, this video shows 2 ways to get a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) working on a Samsung 4K TV via the RF cable but the same process will apply to any RF games console/device like the older Atari 2600.
If you have the option then always go for A/V out rather than RF as the picture is better. On most retro games consoles (inc. Sega Mega Drive) you can get A/V leads (composite, SCART) very cheaply.
Even though the TV is 4K the picture will look worse than if it was on an old CRT television and there will be more display lag so retro gaming on a CRT TV is normally better.
Many thanks Vince
After about 5 months of trying to get it to work this video finally got my megadrive up and running! Me and my friend just completed streets of rage 2 and had an epic battle on micro machines. One of the best nights I've had for ages so thanks for the vid!
5 years after posting this video you're still helping people! Auto scan didnt work for me but manually selecting c36 did the trick!
You absolute star!! I've been trying this for ages. Bang... chuck rock is up and running. Thank you very much 👍🏻
@scootitupm8 what?! Just read it again!!
Just looked, and my 2018 LG OLED has a similar option!!!! 😳 Never would have crossed my mind. Presumed that TVs of this age had totally done away with an analogue tuner... Every day is a school day.
Cheers once again Vince 👌🍻🍻
I set this up years ago and was luckily able to use the extra channel without moving the the switch from Antenna to RF but after moving the megadrive to another room it wasn't so easy.
After watching this video and 5 minutes messing about with settings on the TV the megadrive is up and running. Yeh I now have to flick the ant/rf switch from when I want to game or tv but at least I can do both again and still keep my tv channels.
Awesome video, thank you and one very happy partner who can now play his games in another room and I can binge watch rubbish on tv at the same time 😅👍
This looks terrific! I have to admit that I prefer the looks of RF/Coaxial over Composite, which is nearly always smudgy, edge-enhanced and cursed with that "dot crawl" effect. Back in the days of CRT televisions, we were perfectly happy with the RF cable. More importantly, many classic video game consoles and home computers employed a "dithering" effect to blend colors together. When viewed on S-video or anything sharper, that blending effect reveals a mesh pattern of pixels. As always, it's a matter of personal taste. Great video, much thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the great info :-)
RF/ Composite / S-Video & SCART all look bad in my opinion on a HD/ Flat Screen TV, plus you get lag on the timing which is irritating. Now as far as CRT TV composite is my favorite than RF is second. I don't like S-Video or SCART (RGB) because it makes retro games look to pixelated and flickered. Like for example NBA Action 98 looks the best on Saturn via composite on a CRT TV but looks to pixelated and flickered with S-Video and SCART (even with the sharpness all the way down). For example many people think Sega games ported to the PC around 96-98 look better than the Saturn versions but really they are comparing the flickered pixelated S-Video/ SCART image. When using the official Sega Saturn composite cables on a CRT TV. The image is like the image on the PC version (not pixelated and flickered).
YAY!!! Thanks! Thought that was gonna be a nightmare to do! The amount of extra cables I bought for my SNES to get it on my smart tv and then I find this! BRILLIANT! Thank you!
RF quality on a 4k TV... May God have mercy on your soul...
Hey, you can still see the pixels through the noise and smushing. it's fine.
ZootWorld1
lmfaooooo, I was thinking the same🤣🤣🤣
It's okay for me, the blurriness makes it nostalgic and uses some color bleeding and artifacts to make it look cool in compensation.
@@kazzymiller How many layers of contact lenses do you have!?
@Amiga CD32 Connecting RF to a modern TV is not a great idea,at all,analog TV is very outdated,i don't even know why TVs still come with an analog tuner...Mega Drive and other old consoles work MUCH better on AV,or SCART,than on analog.
RF video quality is actually better than what I expected.
i remember spending ages tuning in the old consoles on 90's tvs lol would always find the picture but it would skip past it before you had a chance to save or store it
this chanel is so underated
progamer302 #thebest Ikr
Thank you so much for this video, I'm able to enjoy Landstalker once again :).
thanks man this really helped me and my dad fix this up
Thanks! Playing Genesis after like 20 years
Am I the only person who think setting up old video games to new generation TV will take time? 😂😂
Ikr
SO THATS WHY WHEN I GOT A TV ARIAL MY MEGA DRIVE DIDN'T WORK
that makes alot more sense now
Thank you :)
Classic games never die
your rf looks soooo clean !
I find shorting the rf cable to be very important for clarity on the nes the genesis is fine without having to do do that. Sir have you had a chance to disassemble a RF switch to replace any components to improve its analogue signal?
Thanks! This made setting up my megadrive on the 4k tv alot easyer 👌👍
Still got my mega drive series 1 just need a power lead still have all my games as well
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Thank you, this helped me a lot!
What an absolute legend you are thank you so much vince 👏 👍
Thanks man, been dying to hook mine up to my smart TV for a while now.
Just want to say thank you. I got the sega saturn up and running. Legend mate!
Thanks so much for the huge help!
This tutorial is the f*cking best mate!
You really made it super easy to understand and explain how to do it with the RF. Even a monkey with a shotgun (this example being myself) could understand this and do it correctly without problem.
THANK YOU SO SO F*CKING MUCH!!!!!!
yeah thanks to this i found a way! got myself a drive 2 and had trouble hooking it up. THanks!
You are a genius, this worked a treat. Thank you. You saved me from breaking a promise to my little lad! Lol
have you tried a mono RCA adaptor (Genesis model 1) with a Composite to HDMI converter output to your TV?
Where can I get one of these please and what model or make?
i dont have a channel initialisation option, anything i can do so i dont have to re scan for channels when i switch back over
This is a very good video and can't be bettered.
Great video mate! Really helped and saved me a lot of time. Thanks a lot man :)
I've done everything and couldn't find a channel. Maybe my console doesn't work? Or the rf port is damaged?
If you had a 60hz modded Sega Megadrive the screen wouldn't be squashed and slow and definitely better with a scart.
The Muffin Man where can I get a modded Sega
That's correct pixel aspect ratio as resolution is 320x224, NOT 320x240. This is especially noticeable on circular objects which are ovals in NTSC region.
Vince I love you man!
Worked a treat thanks mate - BiG Thumbs up!!
Bro you are the biggest saviour ever!!!!
when you say a samsung 4K TV, do you mean an external monitor, the type we use for our macbook pro laptops as a secondary display?
I understand now why you used RF in the cart fix video =D
What about AV to HDMI converters? I was thinking of running that and hooking it up to my HDMI laptop port and recording through the laptop haha. Idk if that will even work. Not sure how to get the Sega screen up on my laptop.
Can you please do how to record gameplay on sega genesis and send on youtube
Ive had such a difficult time understanding what to do. My new 4k tv doesnt have that in the back of the tv. It doesnt even have an area for the AV cords. Only hdmi and optical. How do i use this rf cord that originally came with the sega Genesis?
Hi have followed your guide its searching through the channels but wont find the mega drive channel please help.
Thank you so much. I hope it works when I get back home.
My samsund wouldnt auto scan it and i couldnt find out how to cruise the analog channels tonfond 36 so i had to do a manual tune. Got to 590000 khz but still nothing. Turns out you have to set your sound option to "I" or it throws the picure
Black screen when I do it. I can find the 59k mhz and store it but when I exit. I just get a blank screen. If I turn the megadrive off I get the static noise. I turn it on and it goes but I have no picture or game on my screen. Any suggestions?
Running megadrive 2 on Samsung smart tv. I have tried both manual and auto tuning.
Awesome tips - best on yt. Thanks.
If a modern TV doesn't have an analogue scanning feature then what?
Legend, thanks for this!
Hi, I have my snes plugged into the other side if the rf unit, so I do not have the ability to plug in the aerial, us there another alternative to playing both
You sir...are a fooking legend!!!
My new Toshiba only has hdmi ports what do I do ? Just been given a brand new megadrive
What if your areale doesn't work ?
Mines all connected with the rf and the Shea comes on, however I have no sound. Am i missing something
How does this work with model 2
Gives back memories
Hey. In my settings on Samsung tv it’s saying that tuning is not available. Any suggestions how to change this?
Could you share a link to the adapter please.
My t.v. doesn't have an anolgue tuner, nor does it have red white and yellow . It has HDMI and usb and no scart ? How can I connect my megadrive and achieve the same resolution as (r.w.y) cables or similar? Cheers
Helped me very much thankyou
Trying this with the sega mega 2 and got c36 but was only getting static sound no display
Hi Vince, not sure if you can help me, but it's worth a shot. So I have a Nintendo Color TV-Game 6, their first console. It's an import from Japan and it comes with an RF connector with a male pin in the center, and although a little bigger than the UK ones, it fits when pushed hard.
Now, I know that the NTSC from Japan via RF is not compatible with Japan or even America (unless in tune in between 96-97 or something to that effect) on CRTs, and even my Sony Trinitron, which supports NTSC composite, will not do so with RF, apparently, no CRT will. I bought an NTSC playback on PAL TV VCR with an aerial in the back, nothing either. But from what I understood, HDTVs might, as they support all systems, NTSC, SECAM and PAL. However, I am not sure that, just like in the case of CRT TVs, they will not support the same via the aerial.
I found your video, thank you for supporting and it was the closest I could get to it. The analog search turned out nothing, however the manual does find it in various KHz frequencies and I did the fine tuning as well n several, tried different settings, etc. All I get is black and white static and an occasional quick glimpse of numbers and the pong game, barely.
Is there any hope for me to use this system, anything I can do?
Hey does anyone know how to unplug the switch cable from the TV. Afraid it'll break
Also it isn't this one. It was another version that might be the first one.
oh....got it now, thank you very much!!
Trying this with Mega Drive 2. Channel is found but no display. Trying fine tune can blip and see channel for a nano second then lost.
Can't get channel to Display even though TV says found it.
Thank You! Your Very Smart I Dont Have Av Cable With My Model 1 Mega Drive I Got Yesterday From Cash Coverters
I Capitalise Every Word Because Every Word Is Important
Thanks man gonna get my sega set up
What do you do if your TV doesn't have yellow and white ports??
Good job you deserve so many more subs!
Hello. can you tell me if this system works on a sega megadrive rgb? we can't see how to connect this switch to the megadrive on the video. thank you
I’ve had a problem. I bought a game for my mega drive. (The console I bought had 80 games built into it) and when I put in the game, nothing worked. I tried everything.
wrong region, perhaps?
No wonder it didn't work..probably was one of those AtGames crappy consoles.
It works thanks, I am very happy
You're the best! Thanks
@ My Mate VINCE This video helped me set up my sega megadrive again, after 17 years in the attic it is still going, there's one thing I never asked myself and that is, do you know if you can save your game progress as you go on, the saga megadrive because I don't see any option please help
Thanks!
Many thanks for making Christmas Day 2022 special. Our two adult sons were with us for Christmas and in a fit of nostalgia they retrieved the old Sega from the attic. After some failed attempts to get it going they succeeded using your video. We're we're all transported back to their childhood and the excitement of getting a Sega from Santa. Thank you👍
That's great. Really glad they got it up and running and relived some childhood memories. Thanks so much for the kind donation 👌👍
Is there a link on ebay where I can buy the rf thing?
Thanks about to finally beat streets of rage 2
there will be no sound coming out of a game right?
Its really helping
Please help me I connect my console and the pictures showed once on my smart tv and that’s all it can been seen again .. any help why?
Once I hit Broadcasting>AutoTuning>Start, it just prompts me with Air, or Cable. No channel options with analog. I've tried doing both individually with no success.
Hi thanks for the video really good the only problem is I only get white noise from my TV and sound bar video is fine I am using a brand new Samsung 4K tv thanks
do you need the antenna or can you do it without?
When u plug it in their no signal on a jvc tv as their are no analog chanels any more so how do you get the megadrive to work then ?
My sega tv connector it says I & G and i get nothing tho both ?
It still works with a new Samsung Smart TV. Just try.
hey vince, why not just get a rf splitter and connect both to that?
tried this too mine but the pic quality for me is not playable, so I just went back to using my raspberry pi box and they look way better
Depending on your telly inputs and model of MD it's worth getting a proper AV cable to get RGB picture. RF was crap even in 1990!
Dosent work fer me do I have to get an rf cable for this to work
Well yeah, but the question is do i need a rf switch??? I have a rf cable, but it doesn't work. DO I NEED A RF SWITCH???
@@user-ww8dt5ue8r I’m trying that, my tf switch is o my putting out black and white and it doesn’t seem like my single cable is working, if you can try getting a SCART cable for your megadrive
I’m trying to get RF signal to work on my 4K LG TV. Is it possible?
Fantastic!
Can't wait to play sonic 1 on my tv
Can i use rf to rca or not
Samsung is weird on this. On my Sony Analogue and Digital are separate, so they don't share the same list. There's a button to switch between them. This two Channel 1 business is a bit messy (obviously one of them is digital 1, and the other is analog 1, even though they're not labelled). But I guess it doesn't really matter now that there's no analog broadcast.
So all the upscaling hdmi retro tink stuff isn't required to get the console working on a flatscreen TV?
No, it is overpriced rubbish. Either hook up a 25€ MacMini and emulate the heck for HDMI output, or just plug that original thing in and go gaming. I have to say, I pick up those replaced models for peanuts now. 25€ Plasma 1080p with all analog inputs is hard to beat, even by 4K OLED.
Can't get the sound working. Any advice?
My broadcasting option is greyed out...
Do i need to have anttena? Without anttena nothing happens
I have a huge hatred for RF just because they fail so often. But good idea anyway especially if your tv like a lot more modern tvs is without AV or Scart then it's the only choice I guess. I personally would rather buy a small form factor crt rather than play it on a 4k via RF it would look pretty ugly and a lot nicer on a small crt.
Anyone know if An American NES toploader would work on a modern european tv using the RF SLOT?