let's say you're provided with a variety of options, each inversely proportional in price and difficulty. The cheapest but most difficult way is to hack apart an HDMI cable and build an otherwise proprietary connector, but this is also probably the most difficult way to do this. A similarly cheap, but slightly less difficult way involves directly soldering to the console itself, bypassing the connection. A slightly more expensive (~$20) but still tricky method exists where you basically buy someone's hacked up HDMI cable already taken apart and re-purpose it. And finally, the easiest method involves buying a sort of hard to find but readily in stock on ebay, $150-$200 piece of hardware.
Provided you need to do at least one of these methods to proceed, would that completely derail a homebrew project for you?
