Kaico SEGA Megadrive 1080p HDMI Adapter - For use with Sega Genesis - Supports S Video output – Supports PAL and NTSC Consoles – Aspect Ratio Switch for 16:9 or 4:3

Does exactly what it says it should do. I purchased this to interface a Mega Drive 1. to my Toshiba 65" flatscreen. It works well. The adapter needs an external 5V PSU so i just use a power bank to save messing around with another power socket. It seems to use very little energy so should last a long time between power bank charges. The picture is very good for the price. You can see and measure every pixel with ease. Initially there were quite bad vertical bars ( People call them jail bars ) running down the screen. This is an issue with the early mark one Mega Drive and not a fault of the adapter itself. A simple mod to the Mega Drive board has cleaned them up to the point were they are now unnoticeable unless you go looking. For those interested i simply shorted pin6 on IC 13 ( CXA1145 ) to ground. This mod turns the composite video black and white but it can easily be reversed by removing the short.So Yes, I recommend this product with or without the mod, it's a massive improvement on composite or RF. The converter takes the RGB-S signal from the AV port at the rear of the mega drive and converts it to 1080P HDMI. The sound on the Mark1 is only output as mono from the rear of the Mega Drive but it still sounds sweet through my AV amp. It's not worth the bother to recover stereo sound for me, but if you wanted to you could knock up some leads and do it that way.

I recently tried a lead that was RGB, as the RF lead that came with my MegaDrive 2 about 30 years ago had long since stopped working. That lead really didn't give a good image, so the console and 30 odd games went back in the loft.I recently got one of those mini projectors and happened upon this cable, so I thought what a great combo that would be if it works! And oh I was not disappointed.The colour is rich and vibrant, the image is crystal clear and defined, the sound is beautifully clear.My only complaint is I've just wasted an entire Saturday afternoon playing MegaDrive games, felt like I was back in my 20s and the classic era of gaming!If you want to breath new life into that old console and rediscover all those old games, this is worth every penny and then some.

For the price this is a great piece of kit, being able to play original Megadrive games on original hardware on my TV is fantastic.There is the occasional flicker, but nothing too serious, and being able to switch between wide screen and 4:3 is a good feature. I compared it to an emulated version and I couldn't see any issues with colours etc.If you are expecting perfection, you'll need to spend a lot more, for the money this does the job really well.

This is exactly what I have been looking for. It works instantly, I used a usb power bank to power it. Yes it does letterbox the display so on a 50" TV it will look more like a 40" display but the colours are spot on and the pixels are sharp. I was using a scart to hdmi converter but it was rubbish compared to this. The framerate is great and no button lag.

You won't get as good an image for this cheap anywhere else. Play your original megadrive or MD2 on a modern TV or monitor. Yes if you are using a PAL system your game will be boxed a little and smaller as per usual. The image quality is almost as good as the Analogue Pocket and Mega SG that I own. So for this price you can play on original hardware. No lag either. I have played platformers and sports games and actually play better with this compared to on my CRT! So yeah grab one..

This works very well on most games. It's great to get my Mega Drive 2 up and running again on a modern TV.The one exception I've discovered is that it can't cope with displaying the splitscreen two player mode in Sonic 2; the screen is a complete broken up mess in this instance, making it impossible to play Sonic 2 with more than one player.When I unboxed it, I was unsure which cable I should use to connect to my Mega Drive 2. I decided to call Kaico. Unbelievably for this day and age, I got through instantly to a real person, who was able to help me out, answer my question and get me up and running. Top marks for customer service, Kaico!The problem with Sonic 2 aside, I really can't recommend this enough.