Multiple System Mishaps!

[StanJr]

Ah the silliness of having more than one system hooked up to the same TV:

 

Dateline: my bedroom.

 

My bedroom TV has 4 systems hooked up to it, VCS, NES, SNES, Genesis. So right now I am alternating between the NES and VCS. They are both hooked up and I'm playing one or the other at a time. Well tonight I was playing Popeye on the VCS (HSC), and then later was playing Popeye on the NES. So I get up to get a drink. When I come back, I pick up the VCS joystick, hit the resent button and wonder why the hell the game wouldn't reset. I kept hitting the fire button on the stick (which should start a new game), I keep hitting the reset button: nothing. Puzzled, I get up. Look around. Then I realize, oh yeah, I'm playing the NES.

 

 

Moral: I am a dullard.

 

Go about your business.

[Clint Thompson]

And what game were you playing exactly ?

 

If you say Mario... man..... I don't know what to say!

Where's your head at?

[christianscott27]

one wonders what you were drinking if you couldnt notice the dif between NES and 2600 popeye actually one of my silly ideas is to load up all my systems with some evergreen game that has been released for everything. the two games i think i have for just about every system are frogger and ms.pac man. it would be sorta cool to flip between the versions and see how the game was translated, ok maybe it wouldnt be that cool but still from vic20 to PS2.

[atwwong]

Go about your business.

Are you finished your grad studies already?

 

I'm trying to find out a way to tidy up my classic Atari console collection. I've got a VCS, 5200, and a 7800 on the floor with cables everywhere. I'm using the 4 port 5200 adaptor for the VCS, but I need another input for the 7800. I guess it's off to Radio Shack for a switch and the hardwood store or IKEA to get something for a home classic gaming centre.

[Mr_8bit_16bit]

Image what it was like with 23 systems hooked up to the TV at once... I;ve never thought I was playing one system when I was playing another, but I have set the selector box wrong...several times.

 

 

If you are a dullard, then you are a dullard among dullards.

[Zonie]

I use a rat shack ABC switchbox for the games with rf output. I Use the RCA to Coax adapter for all three. They work better than the tin can tv/game switches, since they are essentially converting the signal from 75 ohm to 300 ohm for the switch, and possibly back again with the tin can switches. The 75 ohm selectors may do the same (never opened one up) but they have less interference and signal loss.

 

I use one of these and a (who knows the brand) five swich composite/S-video selector (that matches a PS2) for all my Composite output games. (N64, SNES, DC, and two Jakks games)

 

The ABC connects to a rat shack standalone RF modulator that connects to an older 20" TV without Composite inputs (RF only).

 

Three Atari units (2600, 7800, 400) connect to the ABC box. The output goes to the RF input on the RF modulator (it has an TV/Video switch relabeled Atari/Non Atari) and the PS2 style selector outputs to the composite video input on the modulator. The Modulator output goes to the TV. Works pretty good for now, but the 400 and 7800 will eventually get S-video mods, and When I find my C-64, I will replace the ABC RF switch with another PS2 type 5 switch selector as the C64 has S-video at the Din output on it.

 

A 27" TV with S-video will eventually replace the 20", and the 2600 (if I even connect it) will go directly to the RF input on the TV and the selectors will go to S-video and audio inputs...

 

I may shove it all into a custom built coffee table with a flip top lid to store it all. If I build the table, it will connect to a 40" Mitsubishi CRT TV and the stereo that's in the family room.

 

...got all that?

[A.J. Franzman]

it will connect to a 40" Mitsubishi CRT TV and the stereo that's in the family room.

Heh, that reminds me, I used to play my 2600 through the stereo speakers in the family room "back in the day" - we had a TV with audio out (used a RCA "Y" adapter to the stereo), but I think the screen was only 25" or so. Did the same thing in my room with the Commodore 64, man I thought that was awesome!

[eric_ruck]

Can I join the too many systems dullards club? I have this thing for controllers...I'll have six or seven around...get up for whatever, then when I get back I don't remember which one was actually hooked up, which requires either some experimentation or digging behind other stuff.

 

Eric

[Mr_8bit_16bit]

I use one of these and a (who knows the brand) five swich composite/S-video selector (that matches a PS2) for all my Composite output games. (N64, SNES, DC, and two Jakks games)

 

Pelican brand. It's what I use too....

[Mr_8bit_16bit]

it will connect to a 40" Mitsubishi CRT TV and the stereo that's in the family room.

 

Heh, that reminds me, I used to play my 2600 through the stereo speakers in the family room "back in the day" - we had a TV with audio out (used a RCA "Y" adapter to the stereo), but I think the screen was only 25" or so. Did the same thing in my room with the Commodore 64, man I thought that was awesome!

 

40" Mitsu CRT??? Sweet! That 40" was a monster and had just an awesome picture. 40" was the biggest direct view CRT ever made. Sony had one recently which I believe is no longer in production, but that 40" when it came out was something of a marvel, and in a way, it still is. Great Set!!

 

 

I remember the first time I had a video game system hooked up to a stereo. It was great! I had hooked my SNES up to an old late 70's Pioneer stereo receiver mated to who knows what brand speakers. They were 3 way spkrs standing about 3 feet tall, and about a foot wide with 8" woofers. I did this right about the same time Super Metroid came out. Super Metroid had some really good music, and back then I found the synthesized music on the SNES more convincing than I would today, and it was also my first experience with full range trebble and bass for video game music, and higher quality than the TV speakers....oh it was awesome! So I know exactly the feeling you're talking about. I wish I could feel that way again about Video games on a stereo.

[Zonie]

Yeah the thing is a monster. a dead one right now. the picture started blacking out and getting jittery. After some blogging, found out it's the caps on the PIP module going south. Kinda like an old arcade cabinet monitor. dried out caps. will cost me about 5 bucks to fix when i get round to it.

[Joystick Jedi]

I can see the scene in my head now...

 

*sits down, grabs joystick, looks at TV*

 

"Daaaaaaaaaaamn. The 2600 had better graphics than I remember..."

 

*hits joystick button and nothing happens"

 

"...and 5200-calibur joystick response!"

[SteveW]

My big dream would be to use my GameCube Wavebird wireless controller on every console I own. I'd have to figure out how to hook up the right transmitters to every console's joystick port, with power going through the transmitters. But whatever console I'd turn on, I'd still use the same controller. That'd be great! No more spaghetti wires to the consoles

[sega saturn x]

Your not a dullard untill you try and put a genesis game in to the back of your saturn boy did i feel smart after that.

[StanJr]

Go about your business.

Are you finished your grad studies already?

 

 

Obviously you can see that in fact, my grad school work is taking its toll! This was just a rare break in the action I had one night after finishing a paper, so no, its mostly back to school for me!

[atwwong]

Go about your business.

Are you finished your grad studies already?

 

 

Obviously you can see that in fact, my grad school work is taking its toll! This was just a rare break in the action I had one night after finishing a paper, so no, its mostly back to school for me!

Sounds like what I'm doing, but eventually I'll have to clean up the mess of wires and consoles in our living room or my wife will do it...

 

I think Chr$ has the right idea for a good setup.