From: Jeff Zero | #044
I could have sworn I found a way to plug my SNES into my TV via component at some point years ago but now I'm pretty sure I was just imagining it.
3 generations of Nintendo consoles used the same port for the AV cables, so you maybe could have gotten the GameCube component cables and plugged them into an SNES (or an N64 for that matter!).
Anyway for my money the NES actually looks great on HDTV. Or at least NES Virtual Console games do, I haven't dug out my actual NES. SNES games, not as much. I always attributed it to SNES games (and Genesis games to a lesser extent) using their larger color palettes to introduce more shading to their graphics. Where the NES would just use a single shade of red for Mario's hat, for example, the SNES would use a bunch of shades and rely on the blurring effect of SDTV to blend them together smoothly. So when you look at them on an HDTV, the NES looks fine because it's all still that single shade, but the SNES looks like a pixel mess because all those different shades don't blend.
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