kelrodjr

Wow, small world. I'll PM you.

You can also do this at Dave & Busters.

Well it seems that soldering may be your only option if you have cleaned everything well. My suggestion is to practice, practice, practice. Take a junk electronics board and practice removing solder joints with a desoldering wick or solder sucker and then resoldering them. There are some good soldering tutorials on the internet for the beginner. Do a Google search for "how to solder". Or, you could ship your CV to me and I'll do it...

Check your power switch first if you haven't already, 9 times out of ten it's the cause of video issues. You might want to try reflowing some of the solder joints on the RF daughter board, sometimes bad solder joints on the RF modulator can cause issues. If reflowing doesn't work, the only way to get to the jack is by desoldering the RF box. Under the RF box cover there is a row of 8 pins that act as a connector between the RF daughter board and the mainboard that you'll need to desolder. The row of pins are between two small plastic tabs. Desolder those, then flip the mainboard over and desolder the points where the RF box is mounted to the board. It's kind of a pain but it's the only way you'll get to the jack.

Tetris DS is a must, if you can find it... for some reason Nintendo discontinued it Beware, there are TONS of Chinese pirated copies on eBay, cheapest I could find an authentic Tetris DS was $65.

OK, you are correct. After some tedious searching I figured it out. The "N" suffix indicates a plastic dual inline package, the "L" suffix indicates an operating temp. of 0 to 70 degrees C. So the chip I'm looking for is the TMS9928ANL. Thanks for the pointers.

No, I looked over the datasheet for the VDP family, the TMS9918A/TMS9928A output NTSC where the TMS9929A is PAL. I'm just not sure what the chip suffixes represent and I can't seem to find any mention of them in datasheets.

I've searched but can't seem to find out the difference (if any) between the various part numbers of the TI TMS9928A VDP. So far I've seen TMS9928A, TMS9928AN, TMS9928ANL, and TMS9928ANH. What's the difference between these? Are these interchangeable?

I have an Atari 2600 with 26 carts, exactly one of which I've played. The 2600 isn't my favorite as it was a few years before my time but I couldn't pass up the system when my brother-in-law's friend was going to throw it out! You can't just let a classic game console die a horrible death, you know?

If you mean Toledo, Ohio, then I live here as well. I might be able to help you out - I'll PM you.