Retro gaming help needed

[HellonHeels]

Anyone here ever played a Sega Megadrive through a modern digital flatscreen TV?

I've got no clue about this stuff but hope there's a way of doing it because being able to dump an obsolete box shaped analogue TV depends on it. Please advise if you can - thanks!

What connections does the Megadrive have? I've never owned one, so this is a genuine 'have no clue' approach, working from scratch...

Is it a TV (coax) cable that you'd tune in (often channel 36 on the TV) or SCART or some other type of cable, perhaps?

I can't quite recall what sort of connectors a megadrive has and I don't have the energy to dig DP's old one out of storage, but a quick Google turned up this which may be of help? Sounds like you'd be fine, I know my shiny modern flatscreen has an AV-in (because the Xbox is hooked up through it, don't ask, long story).

MD has an RF on it, take the ariel out the TV (if you are using one) and plug it in then turn it on and tune the TV in like in the good old.

Thanks everyone, you are all really helpful, much appreciated. I just had a good look at the thing (it's DH's) and it has a tv aerial kind of plug on it.

Now DH tells me he's already plugged it in and tried to use it but couldn't get it to come up on the screen. naoko thanks for that link, I think it might cover why DH didn't get a picture on screen. If I can unglue him from the Olympics I'll see if we can tune the analogue thing in.

I'm not good at all with tech stuff, thanks for the support. I'll be back with more daft questions if it all goes wrong :o

Check to see if TV channel scan is set for only DTV (Digital TV) and excludes ATV (Analogue TV) as the signal from games machines like the old Atari 2600 (now that was a long while ago... mine would be 34 years old if I had it!) would be analogue.