Romscanner woes!

[rheffera]

I just bought a romscanner and am having problems with it.

it is a marjec vga/10

as pictured here: http://www.steverd.com/what26/romscan.jpg

 

i hook my 2600's ac adapter to it and the red lights come on and when i chnage to different games the standby light comes on then goes off, however, the ready light never comes on. Also, the romscanner unit dosnt seem to power the 2600 when connected with the cord between the scanner and the 2600.i have tried 3 different 2600 units.

any idea what the problem is?

Edited February 20, 2007 by rheffera

[Crazy Climber]

I'll have to check what happens with this, I have been debating buying one for my game cave.

[rheffera]

ok i bought another power supply and just used that and it works. it was the connecting cable after all. although a word on the scanners: thier connectors are quite sensetive to position. a slight out of place or sbit lopsided on one angle(foward to you or back) can cause graphical corruption or for it to simply not work. and only then 6 out of my 10 test games worked. maybe the cart slots/carts are dirty.

[Foxsolo2000]

I always wanted one of these things but I always heard that they were so sensitive that they were prone to breaking down. Seems the rumours were right

[Video]

Is the romscanner any real difference from the gamebrain? I've got one of those myself, and it's mechanical rather than electronic, but it's pretty cool.

[Foxsolo2000]

Is the romscanner any real difference from the gamebrain? I've got one of those myself, and it's mechanical rather than electronic, but it's pretty cool.

 

 

Never heard of a Game Brain? Any pics?

[Rom Hunter]

Actually it's called the Video Game Brain.

 

I found a small picture of it on the net:

 

The Game Brain is something else.

http://community-2.webtv.net/AT2600COLLECTOR/gamebrain/

 

And here's the mother of all Game Brains, the Atari C-700:

http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http...l%3Dnl%26sa%3DN

 

Edited February 22, 2007 by Rom Hunter

[Video]

Actually it's called the Video Game Brain.

 

I found a small picture of it on the net:

 

The Game Brain is something else.

http://community-2.webtv.net/AT2600COLLECTOR/gamebrain/

 

And here's the mother of all Game Brains, the Atari C-700:

http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http...l%3Dnl%26sa%3DN

 

 

Yeah, that pic is what I'm talking about. To my understanding, it does the same thing as the romscanner though.

[Lemmi]

dont forget about the GameSeleX