The headphone jack

[tim333]

Has anyone here used the heaphone jack on the Genesis? I admit that, in all these years of playing on the system, I never had. But since I was worried last night about noise from the TV waking someone up, I tried it out.

I know that some of you have really good sound systems on your sets, but for me this resulted in much better sound than my crappy setup. This is an interesting new way to experience my Genesis games.

Out of curiosity, are there any other consoles (not portables) that share this feature?

[Mel]

Not that I know of, but I use a Daewoo (flat screen) TV, and it has a set of RCA plugs in the front for ppl bringing over their stuff, AND a plug for headphones also.

So yes its a handy feature if you live with other ppl whose schedules don't always match.

Now here's a question, does that earphone plug work w/ 32x or segacd?

[lordofduct]

With 32X yes!

With sega CD... only the PCM sound. Actually the Sega CD is supposed to come with a mixer cable so that you can send the stereo signal to the Sega CD and then it mixes it and puts it all out the RCA jacks on the back of it.

You will find that if you have this hooked up correctly and turn down the volume on the head phone jack the sound is all weird when playing SCD games. The first this happend to me I thought I broke it. Then it dawned on my puney 9 yr old mind what was actually occuring.

[Wired]

I've used it once as far as I can remember, no wait... I think I've used it twice. All in all I guess it's a nice feature even though it isn't that useful.

[Russman]

I use it to as a cheap way to get the stereo sound out of my Genesis, without modding it.

[daminmancejin2]

i heard of it but never had it

[j_factor]

I rarely did at first, and then when I got a Sega CD I couldn't anymore. When I got a Nomad I used the headphones constantly, though.

[Genesis Knight]

I use headphones here and there, but my pair has such a short cord it's really annoying. ^_^

Light Crusader sounds awesome with it...

[crazyjoedavola]

I have a pair of Bose Roommate powered speakers which can be hooked up to anything with a headphone jack and use those with my Genesis. If you can find a pair of powered speakers (don't have to be Bose) that connect to a headphone jack, give them a try. The sound is much better than from a TV speaker.

[wasp]

I use it somewhat regularly but it's not preferred as the sound effects can be sharper than the music, which hurts so I lower the volume.

[Zebbe]

I always use it. I have a 3.5 mm cable going to the mixing jack on the Mega CD from it.

[Joe Redifer]

Why would I not use it? It is the ONLY way to hear all sounds. Playing castle of Illusion any other way will make the music sound extremely odd as only the right channel is heard out either of the mono outputs. Lame.

[havok666]

I use it to hook up and get sound through my PC speakers and subwoofer. Streets of Rage sounds solid.

[genesisguy]

I used to use it all the time when I was playing Genesis late at night when I wasn't supposed to be

[Rusty Venture]

I believe not using it, or having the slider set to zero, are permanent banning offenses.

[Iron Lizard]

I took Joe's advice and played Castle of Illusion the other night and it is awesome through the ear phones.

[TheEdge]

I believe I was forced to on numerous occasions because my father hated the video game music and sound effects. The first time I played a video game with my friend I muted the TV at his house before I turned on the game, he looked at my like I was out of my mind.

[Dirt Ball Gamer]

Im gonna try castle of illusion with the headphones when I get home

[Slave]

I rarely use it.

[TmEE]

I use headphones only when I'm not at home... and I'm not going to drag my MD1 out of the house :P
The headphone connector is occupied by cable that goes straight into my HiFi.

[Flygon]

I have four model 2's and zero model 1's.

The answer is obvious sadly.

[Iron Lizard]

I use it late at night on CDX so I don't wake up the wife.