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Nasir
Joined: Jun 19 2007
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Well, I have several consoles, NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, PS2, Wii, Xbox, Xbox360, and probably one or two I left out, but I only have enough room to fit SNES Wii and 360 on it, how do peope connect multiple consoles to one TV?
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I think 2 is the most you can have hooked up at once...
To hook up two, you need to run them both through a DVD or VCR player with dual I/O slots, unless your TV has dual I/O slots.
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Sock
Title: Master Fornicator
Joined: Mar 12 2006
Location: The Skies Above
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A/V switchbox, you can fetch one for $10-15 if you look around.
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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
Joined: Jul 25 2006
Location: VA
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I just do the ol switcheroo. AV switchboxes work good too, but don't get a crappy one or it will make stuff look....crappy.
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Sock
Title: Master Fornicator
Joined: Mar 12 2006
Location: The Skies Above
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That's a load of horseshit. Don't get a crappy one if you're playing games on a really good TV using component cables. Other than that, you won't notice a difference. The whole 'bottlenecking' myth is a crap unless you're using a good TV. It's just like when you people use FLAC with shitty PC speakers and shitty headphones. You're foolin' yourself.
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S. McCracken
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Title: Enforcer
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Massachusetts
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My buddy had a regular $15 one for his non-HD tv and it was fine. When he moved to HD, however, he had to buy a high-end one at Radio Shack. I think he paid a little under $100.
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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
Joined: Jul 25 2006
Location: VA
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| Sock wrote: |
| That's a load of horseshit. Don't get a crappy one if you're playing games on a really good TV using component cables. Other than that, you won't notice a difference. |
Thats kind of what I meant, but I did have an intec AV box and it was really washed out looking on my non HDTV compared to the composite's built on it.
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Nasir
Joined: Jun 19 2007
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What about certain gaming systems liek the NES/Genesis that have those ugly little boxes that plug into the Cable? Do those work as well?
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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You don't need to hook up the Nintendo and Genesis! Simply rebuy all your favorite old games on the Wii Virtual Console! Be a good little consumer! 
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Knyte
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Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
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| Sock wrote: |
A/V switchbox, you can fetch one for $10-15 if you look around. |
I have that exact same switch. I also have a sony one that is a little dial, and is colored exactly like the original Playstation. The stupid thing about it is, that since it is circular, wires stick out of it from all directions, and there is no way to make it look neatly organized.
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Sock
Title: Master Fornicator
Joined: Mar 12 2006
Location: The Skies Above
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| Nasir wrote: |
| What about certain gaming systems liek the NES/Genesis that have those ugly little boxes that plug into the Cable? Do those work as well? |
The NES has a composite out on the side, and hooking up a Geni with the coax box is easy enough.
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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
Joined: Jul 25 2006
Location: VA
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| Nasir wrote: |
| What about certain gaming systems liek the NES/Genesis that have those ugly little boxes that plug into the Cable? Do those work as well? |
Yeah, like Sock said, Nintendo has AV ports unless you've got an NES 2. Genesis also had an AV cable. I have a JVC Xeye which is a Genesis/Sega CD, it has regular RCA jacks on it, but I think there hard to find. Until you get the cables you can just daisy chain them!
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Nasir
Joined: Jun 19 2007
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I have the NES Top Loader, which has RF Unit, and I have the second release of the Genesis, and my SNES also has the ugly RF unit. Maybe you guys are telling me, but each of these ugly systems has the RF unit, and I'm not understanding how to hook up all three so I don't have to keep switching cables.
I have to play the systems on channel 3.
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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
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Location: VA
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Hook all the rf's together for now would work, but RCA composite is way better looking and gives stereo sound on gen/snes. The NES top loader only uses RF, Genesis has an AV cable, Snes can use gamecube/n64 av cable.
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Nasir
Joined: Jun 19 2007
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 Didn't know you could do that, 
So; where can you buy those A/V Switchers? Radio Shack?
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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
Joined: Jul 25 2006
Location: VA
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Yep! It works. You could prolly find all the cables and a switch online.
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punkrockpoet
Joined: Jun 19 2007
Location: backwoods, PA
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I have my Atari (with a coax adapter), NES, N64, SNES, Genesis, and Dreamcast all linked together and hooked up through the coax input and my PS2 through the RCA inputs. Don't know if I'm supposed to but it works and doesn't really screw up the picture too bad. It's not really hooked up right now though since I've gotten sick of collecting all of my old favorites. I just bought old computer parts and built a machine strictly for emulation and did that mod where I hooked up real NES and SNES controllers through a parallel port adapter. That way, I can play all my favs on the same machine! 
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