Hyperkin HDTV Cable for PS1/PS2 – Retro Gaming HDMI Adapter for PlayStation 1 & 2 (Phat & Slim) – Plug & Play Classic Games in 720p on Modern HDTVs – Clear Video & Audio - Component Video Supported

So you have a PSX/PS2 laying around from your childhood, maybe ya bought one off ebay to re-live your childhood. you hook it to your flat panel, and the thing looks like crap... so you go looking for a modern solution and you find that "HDMI modding" a console is tricky and very expensive, and scalers are just as bad. so you go looking on amazon and you find a TON of cables that claim they do the job, ya buy one and somehow its worse. well budget minded buyer, this is the cable you should have gone with from the start. Its not the best / cleanest / whatever way to get it done, but it works reasonably well, and you can at least get a clear picture out of it. Is it going to beat or match a proper full digital HDMI mod? nope, but if you just want to casually pick up a playstation and re-live a game or 2 it gets the job done just fine. there are better more expensive options out there, but if you are the sort to actually buy that stuff... you wouldnt be reading this review. now speaking of scalers, I have personally tested this thing with a Morph 4k, and it was passable, its not going to blow everyone away with its awesome picture, but youll at least be able to read the in game text clearly, and it doesnt ghost crazy bad like the cheaper ones can. if you are here at the end of this rant, go on buy one... it will do the job just fine

This worked EXCELLENT. I thoguht my ps2 lazer was bad because it would not play ps1 games tho it played ps2 games fine (or so i thought). I Tried everything, even got a ps1. Turns out the ps1 wouldnt play games either. Then i realized it was my TV all along was not accepting the 240p signal from the ps1 at all, and my ps2 seemed to not play ps1 games because the ps2 flips from 480i to 240p output when playing ps1 discs, SO my newer (2021) smart tv was not reckognizing the output! Used this chord, and PROBLEM SOLVED! PS2 now plays PS1 games on my newer tv perfectly fine! The QUALITY of the output is ACTUALLY stunning! It really is. I dont even remeber these games looking this good when i was a kid playing them on the old fat screen and plasma tvs they were built for! Both PS2 and PS1 games EASILY look 2-3x better, the higher RES PS2 games such as jak2/3, newer mx vs atv ect games that were made in higher resolutions- see the biggest improvement! But ALL look DRASTICALLY better. This is a VERY good hdmi chord for the ps2. have not tried on the ps1. sure its the same deal id assume. they are the same exact chord sockets/ wire pin layout. and the switch goes to 4/3.. so it should be great for the ps1 itself... amazing for the ps2, AMAZINGER for high res PS2 games.

When it works, it works great. Almost everyone every time i use it i have to unplug the power and re connect it just so it can get the signal. Besides that it works great and looks good. I originally got a defective unit but returned it and got a replacement. I wonder if i got another faulty one.

Great way to display PlayStation 2 content on modern displays with little to no lag, visual artifacts, or color issues. It even displays 240 P games effortlessly.

On PS1: Sharp, responsive, colors look great, audio is awesome. Just got done playing some SF Alpha III and couldn't tell any lag (I'm playing on a 1ms response time computer monitor though, not a tv. I highly recommend getting away from TVs for gaming). I was really surprised by how crispy my PS1 slim graphics look. Super tidy too. I also got one of those RCA to VGA converters to compare it to and that solution comes with a lot of snow in the blacks of the picture and the audio has a hum. It might be more responsive though, but without frame analyzation I can't tell a difference between this HDMI converter and converting to VGA. The picture on this thing is way better. it's unfortunate that this product doesn't have a PS1 and PS2 version separately because I feel like the PS2 users are dragging down the reviews but this is a great solution for PS1. Seems like good quality too. Update: My monitor will not go into sleep mode while hooked up to this, instead constantly displays "no signal detected" when the PS1 is turned off. Only unfortunate because my NES and SNES classic both allow the monitors to sleep when turned off and I was hoping for my whole arcade to be as user friendly as possible. Oh well, still a really nice product for the price.

Change the settings in your PS2 to get rid of the green tint. I was able to play for 5 hours. I was happy. Tried again the next day and the cord did not work. There was power to the unit, but it would only work if I unplug it and plug it back in. A shame you have to do this every time you want to play. How long until it just stops working all together?

Who says this looks bad? It's completely fine for a $20 solution to playing my PS2 again. I gotta say, I have an OLED so maybe that helps with the picture quality. But seriously overall this is awesome to have if you want to play your old consoles again. It's very easy to set up, only needing a USB 5V to plug into for power, and now I'm ripping around in NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona again. Ya know, funny thing. My dad, more than anything, wanted me to be a NASCAR driver growing up, and I was down with it. I grew up in a racing family. My grandpa was a stock car racer. My dad never raced but he has always been a huge NASCAR fan. He bought me a whole go-kart to race semi-pro when I was a kid, which I did for 3 seasons. The problem was, my dad was kind of an a-hole, so it was never very fun for me. I quit after the 3rd year, and gave up on it. My grandpa died in a car crash a few years later. Then, a couple years ago, I decided to boot up my PS2 and crack into NASCAR Thunder 2004 for the first time since I was a kid. It was fun, but it really felt like it needed a wheel to be maximum fun. I ordered a Logitech wheel for PS2 and it transformed the experience into something else entirely. It took me back to those days with my dad. Playing these old NASCAR games reminded me of why I used to love racing so much. Since then, I started watching NASCAR again, and talk to my dad on a weekly basis about something we both love. I finally visited him again for Christmas and got to spend some genuine quality time with him, and I wasn't mad at him for my childhood anymore. I understood that he was just lonely after him and my mom split up, and that holding onto racing was a connection to how we used to spend time as a family. He still loves NASCAR, and he still watches it every week. Now I do too, and it brought us back together. So I guess you could say, the adapter works. Love you Dad. Update: after a few uses, the adapter stopped working. Just glitching the video in and out of a black screen. Stopped talking to Dad.

I recently bought a PS2 to relive all the great games I used to play as a teenager. I rarely leave reviews unless I’m extremely wowed or very upset by a product. Honestly I was really scared to order this (because of the mixed reviews I read) in case it was a disappointment. Trying to play this game on my Phillips 55” 4k tv was horrible and made me not even want to play any of my games. Midnight Club Ride 3 DUB edition was pretty much impossible to play because I could barely see anything. Baulders Gate: Dark Alliance 2 was absolutely terrible, everything kind of blended together and was super blurry. This cord is absolutely amazing. It is obviously not a Retrotink 5x but there is a big difference; enough for me to be able to play until I can afford one. These pictures are a before and after. Even though it’s not a super drastic difference, you can see the words better and the graphics are more crisp. So happy to be able to play these old games I haven’t played in almost 20 years! If you can’t afford a Retrotink this is the affordable way to go. 100% recommend this cord. Update: Added pictures from Midnight Club and Kingdom Hearts. These are from my LG 40” 4k tv.