Ron_Albanese_Again Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 Hey guys! After years of apartment hell, I've finally moved into a new house (gaming room: coming soon). I came across one of my ODYSSEY 2 systems, and the older multicart. I was psyched! I had the power cord, etc. As fasr as I can remember, the system was working. I went to Radio Shack, and bought an adapter (i.e. the one to hook up the old-style antenna lines to a cable-ready plug). When I plugged it in, I got static. Fidgeting the TV plug around, I did see through the snow on screen to read the famous "SELECT GAME" message. Still, it was not clear! I was so mad ... I tried the TV upstairs, but no luck. What am I doing wrong? Again, what I am doing is: Taking the 02 cord, and plugging it into an old (I think it came with the 2600) adapter, and then scrweeing the wires into a VHF cable-ready adapter and plugging it into the back of the TV. Then, I'm plugging in the 02, putting the TV on channel 3, etc. Any help would be truly appreciated! I wanna play KC Munchkin with my kid! Feel free to mail me as well! Ron ron@ronalbanese.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianscott27 Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 think you might need one of these magnavox specials, its what the 0dy2 came with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianscott27 Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 lousy no edit feature... lets try again, that beige sucker... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron_Albanese_Again Posted June 22, 2004 Author Share Posted June 22, 2004 Thanks for your reply! I forgot to mention that I do have one of those beige boxes, and it didn't work, either! Still got the snowy screen, with the glimmer of "Select Game" in the background. ???? Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 I hook mine up through the same switch box that I use for my VCS so that's not an issue. If you've tried another switch box and it's still not working there may be a problem with your O2's RF modulator. On the chance that both switch boxes you tried are both bad you might try buying a new one at Radio Shack and giving that a go. -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx1138 Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 I am in the UK and have a Philips VideoPac, almost the same machine exactly. I found that my video pac operated on an entirely differnt UHF freque ncey to all my other machines altogether, and that I had to tune it in specially on its own chanell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 Obviously I can't speak for all North American O2s, but mine tunes to VHF channel 3 same as all of my other systems. -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron_Albanese_Again Posted June 22, 2004 Author Share Posted June 22, 2004 Thanks for the replies ... I don't know what it could be! I have another 02 in storage that I'm going to grab today, and try it out. I wanna be killing bees tonight! Eating dratapillars! Picking axe! Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron_Albanese_Again Posted June 22, 2004 Author Share Posted June 22, 2004 I was just looking at that 02 pic -- are those the American detachables?! Man, they were cool. I don't care what anyone says -- the 02 is a decent machine! Great character, no flicker ... Ron! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Collector Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 I had to modify mine with a new switch box to get it to work. It involved cutting and splicing wires, and lots of testing. I still have it hooked up with two switch boxes, go odyseey 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 I had to modify mine with a new switch box to get it to work. It involved cutting and splicing wires, and lots of testing. I still have it hooked up with two switch boxes, go odyseey 2. Why not just "unhook" the cable from inside the unit? replace with a standard rca & switchbox? Would seem an easier task than splicing wires.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 Try using a standard RF wire instead of the special one some O2's come with. if you got the beige box, then chances are good then you've got one of those special wires, and you'll have to replace it to make it work with a normal wire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsoper Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Why not just solder on two rca cables and have composite video? http://users.erols.com/tiltonj/games/tech/o2av.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 You didn't by chance buy an automatic RF switch, did you? A lot of the older systems (such as the Atari 2600 and Odyssey^2) don't put out a strong enough signal to trigger the switches in the automatic models, which might cause what you've described. You HAVE to have a switch box that has a manual switch. In case that's what you already have, you might want to try opening up the system and making sure that the RF cord is firmly attached to the motherboard. I've never heard of one coming loose before, but if it's been banged around or something, I suppose it's possible that the cord has become disconnected or perhaps even broken. It's fairly easy to replace... no soldering or anything like that required. Failing all that, it sounds to me like the signal is just too weak. You might want to try using a video amplifier (You can probably find one of these at an electronics store like Radio Shack). I'm not sure what the price on those things are though. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tantone56 Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 wow jsoper thats cool thanx ill do it to mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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