Did you use RF or Composite cable for all consoles until the HD era?

[NuclearCake]

Did you just use the standard cables that came with a system or did you use something that was higher quality like S video, RGB or YPBPR Component?

I want to say that i never used stock cables ever since my brother told me about other methods and we hooked up the SNES and MD with RGB and never looked back.

 

[Nexus2049]

Composite for everything (even PS3) until I got my first HD TV.

 

[Elfotografoalocado]

I must admit I did.

 

[Clefargle]

Composite.

no poll OP? Shame

 

[Indelible]

Nope, I used S-video for SNES, N64, Gamecube and component on PS2 and Xbox.

 

[nded]

S-video if the TV had it, composite otherwise. Used a twin lead adapter to play Famicom on a very old dial TV when I was little. I didn't have a set with component input until the PS3.

 

[ghostcrew]

Yep, just the standard cables from everything from a Commodore VIC-20 to a Master System all the way up to a PS2. Xbox 360 was the first console that I bought new cables for (component cables for my first HDTV).

 

[Chaz Ashley]

RGB-Scart all the way whenever possible.

 

[Tohsaka]

I switched to component in the PS2 era since that was the first time I had a TV that supported anything better than composite.

 

[Why would you do that?]

I had the top loader NES, so I used RF with it, since it was the only option. As a kid I didn't realize composite was better quality, so whenever I hooked up my SNES I often was lazy and just used the same RF cable from the NES.

But besides that, it was all composite. No component (it was a good while until we had a TV with it).

 

[GamerJM]

I have Wii/PS2 Component cables. If I ever hook my old shit up I need to get RGB or at least S-Video.

 

[Smokey]

No.

As soon as I found out about S-Video, I bailed and went to it. Same for component. Hell, I had the VGA adapter for the Dreamcast. I've always been one to get the best IQ I could out of a system.

 

[B4mv]

RF for NES/Genesis.
Composite for PS1, Gamecube, Wii
Component for PS2, Xbox
HDMI for 360/PS3 and up

 

[Symphony]

I was using RF for everything (even had to buy an RF cable for my GC) up to about 2003 when I got a TV with Composite just to be able to play an import copy of Animal Crossing, continued using that up until I got a PS3 in... 2008 or so when I switched to RGB scart. I finally made the jump to HDMI when Fable 3 came out at the end of 2010.

 

[Reinhard]

Component cables or s video, but I never owned a console before PS1 other than an Atari 2600.

 

[Magnus]

As soon as I had a TV that supported component (2003) I used those. Huge difference vs composite (barf) or RF (double-barf), the latter of which I hadn't used since the SNES days.

 

[AgentLampshade]

I used it a few years into it too. My mind was blown when I saw the ps3 xmb properly for the first time.
To give a timeframe: Assassins Creed II was my first HD game.

 

[808s & Villainy]

RF (N64) then composite then component. S-Video? LOL

 

[Bgamer90]

I grew up playing games on my dad's old 15" TV that he gave me (that he had in his apartment during the mid '80s). That TV only took RF switch so that's how I played on my Super Nintendo that I had in my room. My PS1 was hooked up to my parents 27" living room TV via composite cables.

I got a 20" CRT as a gift a little bit after the PS2 released and I used composite cables for that. In 2004 I got a 23" LCD HDTV and I bought component cables for my PS2. HUGE jump in quality. Gran Turismo 4 was in some sort of fake 1080i resolution and looked really good at the time. 480p in many of the other PS2 games I played was a pretty big improvement too. I got an S-Video cable for my Super Nintendo a few weeks after that, and that was pretty much the end of me using composite cables for any of my systems.

 

[Flame Lord]

Composite, I never knew about S-video and I don't think I knew component existed until HD consoles and I assumed they were just used purely for HD content. I didn't learn about how big a difference they could make and RGB until I found My Life in Gaming on Youtube and their RGB series.

 

[Cucurbitacée]

RGB was mandatory on French TV from the 1980, so my C64 was the last RF system I used. Everything after that was SCART and RGB if it was available.

 

[Chakoo]

RF from NES->Genesis->Snes but part way through Snes I went composite on everything else till 2 years into PS3 era when I finally moved to HDMI when I got my 1080P Sony TV.

 

[Squarealex]

luckly, I have RGB for Sega system, thanks SCART
But yeah, mostly composite.

 

[daninthemix]

RGB-Scart all the way whenever possible.

Click to shrink...

Yep, same here.

 

[Sacrilicious]

I used composite until...early 2012 at least. I mainly played my 360 on a 480i CRT for most of the first HD generation. I didn't have much money and couldn't afford higher end tech.

Eventually someone lent me their flat screen for two years while they had to move abroad, and afterwards I switched to PC gaming and never looked back.

 

[plagiarize]

I bought a custom rewired GameCube VGA cable to play progressive scan games in 640 x 480 on my monitor. I was never happen with composite to be honest.

 

[ss_lemonade]

RF for 8 and 16 bit, composite for everything else up to the OG xbox. We did get vga for the dreamcast, then downgraded to an s cable for the OG xbox lol

 

[empo]

NES RF
N64 Bought it on the way to my cousins and played via composite but realized our home TV didn't even have that so had to go out and buy the RF adapter.
Sometime during the PlayStations lifespan I found out about RGB-Scart so I always got those cables after that for PS2 and GameCube.
Next console after that was PS3 slim via HDMI.

I was using RF for everything (even had to buy an RF cable for my GC) up to about 2003 when I got a TV with Composite just to be able to play an import copy of Animal Crossing, continued using that up until I got a PS3 in... 2008 or so when I switched to RGB scart. I finally made the jump to HDMI when Fable 3 came out at the end of 2010.

Click to shrink...

Wow that's a long time to use RF! I thought our RF only TV in 1996 was ancient haha.

 

[Deleted member 49535]

Composite for everything (even PS3) until I got my first HD TV.

Click to shrink...

Same here. Although I remember using VGA on a Xbox 360 before it got RROD. But I think that was just because the monitor I was using at the time didn't support anything else or something.

 

[jett]

RF on NES and SNES. Made the switch to composite on the PS1/N64 era. The stuck with that for about a year on the PS3 until I got an HD display.

 

[Nanashrew]

Only used RF for NES. I learned about composite via VCR manuals as a kid and used composite for SNES and onwards. Used component for awhile with my PS3 very early though, at least until I got my first HD TV.

 

[Smokey]

Thinking about it, I think I only really used RF on the NES.

 

[ThisIsBlitz21]

For both 6th and 7th gen, i used the 3 seperate colored plugs, whatever it was called.

 

[Deleted member 4247]

N64: Composite (although I remember using RF for something, might have been this)
GCN: Composite -> RGB SCART (what an upgrade that was)
Wii: Composite -> Component (I might have had RGB SCART in-between these, don't remember)
PS3 and on: HDMI

 

[Fliesen]

RGB Scart on PS2 had that fucking green tint during DVD playback. 😢

 

[sleepnaught]

RF for NES, SNES, and Genesis. Composite for the other consoles. Never used component until recently with my SNES and Genesis. Difference is enormous over RF and composite.

 

[Deleted member 5725]

SCART since it was the most common standard over here.

 

[ThreePi]

I remember using RF for the NES. I used composite through SNES/64/PSX/Gamecube. Early on in the Wii's life I got a CRT that took component cables and started to use that. Never used S-Video for anything.

 

[thomasmahler]

For most Europeans it was easy enough to buy RGB cables and play that way on our European TVs - so I did that. At the same time, we had to play the awful PAL versions with fat black bars and 20% slowdown...

 

[Jazzem]

RF for Mega Drive, N64 and Dreamcast, composite for Gamecube+PS2.

Not HD but I did get an RGB cable with my Wii at launch, I'm pretty sure going over friends' houses and seeing Wii in composite set off my eternal fussiness for image quality :p Retroactively got RGB cables for many old consoles too

 

[aisback]

RF Cables for the master system and Mega drive. I think everything else was Scart until HD

 

[CaptainK]

Component on Xbox 360 until I got an HDTV. Otherwise, yeah it was all composite before and all HDMI after.

 

[Ruruja]

RF up to and including PS1
SCART on PS2

 

[Deleted member 17210]

I only had RF for consoles prior to the 32-bit era. When I got the Playstation in 1995, I did a mix of composite and RF. I still lived with my parents and could only use composite when the good TV wasn't being used. For Dreamcast, I used VGA except for a few games that didn't support it; those were through composite.

As a kid in the '80s, I had to switch between my black and white TV and the family colour TV. I remember Aztec Challenge on C64 having some enemies be invisible when played in monochrome.

UHF/VHF prong connectors are kind of nostalgic for me now.

 

[Unicorn]

RF for way too long. Even when I upgraded to a lcd in 2009 I still used AV cables until I got a ps3 slim that included an hdmi

 

[Dezzy]

I bought an HDTV right before the PS3 came out in anticipation for it.

 

[RowdyReverb]

It blew my mind when I realized the N64's composite cable could be used with my SNES. Used RF for years when I didn't need to!

 

[Fatmanp]

Scart.

I remember when I first got my PS2 coming from the SNES, Megadrive and PS1 on RF cable. I was so used to having to Tune it in to get a picture. Me and my dad spent hours racking our brains why it wouldn't work until it finally clicked that we had to select a source LMAO.

Spent the next five hours playing Gran Turismo 3.

 

[Rhaknar]

whatever came with the boxes

 

[secretanchitman]

RF: NES
Composite: N64/PS2
Component: Gamecube/Wii

Been solely using HDMI since the 60GB PS3 and 360 Jasper.