SNES on a plasma-TV? Help needed!

[Ayashi]

Hi all, I just joined this forum to ask your help

 

 

Alright, so we have one of these.

 

I want to hook it up with my good old Super Nintendo! Today I spent over AN HOUR trying to figure out how to make it work. All I have is this cable that came with the console many years ago. Seriously help me out Also, the reason I managed to spend an hour on this is we have 2 DVD players and a digibox connected to our TV so I tried every possible cable combination there is.. Well, I probably didn't but ehh.

 

 

 

Also, if I buy an american SNES from Ebay, will it work on our TV? I mean aren't TVs the same everyone these days, so the fact that it's NTSC shouldn't matter? My memory really doesn't serve me well here.. I'm interested in fulfilling one of my dreams, which is playing Super Mario RPG on a console. :wub:

 

 

That's what the SNES looks like from the back. Tips, anyooone! It's beyond me why it won't work when I simply connect the console and the TV with the cable. :grrr:

Edited January 17, 2008 by Ayashi

[KrazyKaiju]

If the cable you're trying to use came with the SNES, it's probably an RF cable that requires a switchbox to work. You connect the switchbox to your TVs coax antenna input and plug the cable from the SNES into the switchbox. Unfortunately, RF will look like crap on an HDTV. I'd recommend getting a S-Video cable for your SNES, assuming of course that your TV has an S-Video input. You can still get them from Nintendo's online store here:

 

http://store.nintendo.com/webapp/wcs/store...rencyPreference

 

Japanese cables are interchangeable with North American consoles. PAL cables won't work with NA consoles. Also, any NTSC device will work fine with a US television (Japan is NTSC as well).

[DragonmasterDan]

Hi all, I just joined this forum to ask your help

 

 

Alright, so we have one of these.

 

I want to hook it up with my good old Super Nintendo! Today I spent over AN HOUR trying to figure out how to make it work. All I have is this cable that came with the console many years ago. Seriously help me out Also, the reason I managed to spend an hour on this is we have 2 DVD players and a digibox connected to our TV so I tried every possible cable combination there is.. Well, I probably didn't but ehh.

 

 

 

Also, if I buy an american SNES from Ebay, will it work on our TV? I mean aren't TVs the same everyone these days, so the fact that it's NTSC shouldn't matter? My memory really doesn't serve me well here.. I'm interested in fulfilling one of my dreams, which is playing Super Mario RPG on a console. :wub:

 

 

That's what the SNES looks like from the back. Tips, anyooone! It's beyond me why it won't work when I simply connect the console and the TV with the cable. :grrr:

 

I'm guessing you have no open composite slots on your TV, you would need a multi game switch to hook up your DVD player and other devices to the TV like this. http://www.familysafemedia.com/4_device_au...o___game_s.html

If your TV has no composite slots at all you'd need to run the video through another device or use RF.

[AGBulls]

Hi all, I just joined this forum to ask your help

 

 

Alright, so we have one of these.

 

I want to hook it up with my good old Super Nintendo! Today I spent over AN HOUR trying to figure out how to make it work. All I have is this cable that came with the console many years ago. Seriously help me out Also, the reason I managed to spend an hour on this is we have 2 DVD players and a digibox connected to our TV so I tried every possible cable combination there is.. Well, I probably didn't but ehh.

 

 

 

Also, if I buy an american SNES from Ebay, will it work on our TV? I mean aren't TVs the same everyone these days, so the fact that it's NTSC shouldn't matter? My memory really doesn't serve me well here.. I'm interested in fulfilling one of my dreams, which is playing Super Mario RPG on a console. :wub:

 

 

That's what the SNES looks like from the back. Tips, anyooone! It's beyond me why it won't work when I simply connect the console and the TV with the cable. :grrr:

 

I'm guessing you have no open composite slots on your TV, you would need a multi game switch to hook up your DVD player and other devices to the TV like this. http://www.familysafemedia.com/4_device_au...o___game_s.html

If your TV has no composite slots at all you'd need to run the video through another device or use RF.

 

doesn't this TV have an S-video slot? If it does, just buy a SNES s-video cable -- which is the same as the N64/GC one. That's the easiest way to get a nice, sharp image.

[JB]

If the cable you're trying to use came with the SNES, it's probably an RF cable that requires a switchbox to work. You connect the switchbox to your TVs coax antenna input and plug the cable from the SNES into the switchbox.

That's not how Nintendo rolled.

The SNES shipped with a composite AV cable that plugged into the proprietary multi-out connector and an auto-switchbox that plugged into a standard RCA jack.

 

Unfortunately, if you use RF and DON'T use an auto-switchbox, it does bad things to the picture.

But you shouldn't be using RF anyways.

 

Japanese cables are interchangeable with North American consoles. PAL cables won't work with NA consoles. Also, any NTSC device will work fine with a US television (Japan is NTSC as well).

PAL cables SHOULD work, though SCART cables won't(US SNES has different levels on the RGB lines, which is the only reason you'd be using SCART on an SNES anyways).

[Warriorisabouttodie]

I'm from the US and my tv and SNES are both NTSC, so take this for what it's worth. You probably have the rf cable, get the composite (3 rca cables on one side) or if you buy a new one from Ebay you will get it with a composite and SVIDEO then plug this into your LCD television. I had my SNES plugged into the widescreen LCD last night and it looked great (although noticeably darker than my CRT, so I had to turn up the brightness) through the composite cables. Infact I don't think it could look any better than it did.

 

What I'm wondering is if there is some kind of timing difference, like maybe a millisecond difference in display updates when you use a lcd, because I could of sworn my timing was off on Super Mario World compared to when I normally play it on my old CRT tv. Maybe I was just tired.

[JB]

I'm from the US and my tv and SNES are both NTSC, so take this for what it's worth. You probably have the rf cable, get the composite (3 rca cables on one side) or if you buy a new one from Ebay you will get it with a composite and SVIDEO then plug this into your LCD television. I had my SNES plugged into the widescreen LCD last night and it looked great (although noticeably darker than my CRT, so I had to turn up the brightness) through the composite cables. Infact I don't think it could look any better than it did.

If you don't think it could get better, then get an s-video lead and prepare to be totally blown away.

 

Seriously, the difference is as big as the RF-composite difference.

 

What I'm wondering is if there is some kind of timing difference, like maybe a millisecond difference in display updates when you use a lcd, because I could of sworn my timing was off on Super Mario World compared to when I normally play it on my old CRT tv. Maybe I was just tired.

Lag is actually a common issue with most LCD/DLP/plasma TVs.

Different sets have different amounts. Allegedly there's some lag-free sets out there(or at least low enough that it's not an issue).

[midnight8]

If the cable you're trying to use came with the SNES, it's probably an RF cable that requires a switchbox to work. You connect the switchbox to your TVs coax antenna input and plug the cable from the SNES into the switchbox. Unfortunately, RF will look like crap on an HDTV. I'd recommend getting a S-Video cable for your SNES, assuming of course that your TV has an S-Video input. You can still get them from Nintendo's online store here:

 

http://store.nintendo.com/webapp/wcs/store...rencyPreference

 

Japanese cables are interchangeable with North American consoles. PAL cables won't work with NA consoles. Also, any NTSC device will work fine with a US television (Japan is NTSC as well).

 

I have a 42inch samsung hdtv plasma and my super nes looks great. It also looks great on my 32 inch toshiba lcd, but I have heard many people talk about them looking bad on hdtv. I guess what I am saying is I wonder what to look for when buying one. Obviously u can't carry all your games to the store to test them on all the tv's. not easily anyway.