About gameusurper Expertise TOPICS I can answer questions about:
Game Strategy, Recommendations (based on age or genre preference), History of a game, Recalling a game you played, Game music, Company or Creator info, and System troubleshooting
GENRES:
My specialties are Adventure, RPG, Survival Horror, Action, and a small amount of Strategy and Puzzle. I avoid sports games like the plague, and have little interest in any racing games save for a few, F-Zero, Mario Kart and Wipeout being the main ones. Nor do I know many fighting games, mainly Bushido Blade and a few others. I am not much of a fan of First Person Shooters either. I am especially well versed in RPGs, particularly Final Fantasy and most of SquareEnix's other titles.
GAMES:
Not limited to the following. These games are series, and I know them all. There are MANY other individual ones. Feel free to ask and I will let you know if I can help you.
Actraiser, Alundra, Breath of Fire, Bushido Blade, Castlevania, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Donkey Kong, Dragon Warrior/Quest, Drakkhen/Dragon View, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, King's Field, Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver, Mana, Mario, Mega Man, Metal Gear Solid, Ninja Gaiden, Metroid, Parasite Eve, Resident Evil, Rygar, Silent Hill, Spyro, Star Fox, Suikoden, Tomb Raider, TMNT, Wild Arms, Xenogears/Xenosaga, Zelda, and Zone of the Enders
SYSTEMS:
I have recently added the Wii and PSP to my collection. NES, Super NES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Gameboy Color, GBA, DS, PS1, PS2 and PSP plus computer, but I'm not really a big computer gamer.
Systems I plan on getting in the future are XBOX 360 and eventually PS3 (When the price goes down...a lot) I am also a big fan of emulators on the PC. I have many of the old 8-bit and 16-bit systems and ROMS for my computer and know a lot about them. These include NES, Super NES, Genesis, Turbografx, MSX, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and GBA.
Experience I have been a video gamer for nearly 20 years. I started with the original NES way back in 1988 and have owned or played nearly every popular console since then. I have completed hundreds of games and played thousands. I have a large file cabinet filled with hundreds of hand-made maps, lists, and various stategies for many of the games I have conquered in the past two decades. I subscribe to 5 different game magazines to keep up to date on the newest stuff out there. I would officially call myself an expert on the subject of videogames. And if I don't know the answer, I can find out about it and direct you to someplace that does.
Publications Nintendo Power magazine, and I am thinking of writing for Gamegrene and GameFAQs in the future.
Education/Credentials Experience with games baby, and lots of it. Nothing formal if that's what you're wondering. Just good old playing and reading.
Question Hello,I have a 1st version xbox with 5 jack plugins on it (2red,1white,1blue,1green) hooked up to a Sony 1998 54 inch TV and one cord going to the electrical socket. The picture is good, but split into 2,something like split screen.Please see if u can help me figure out why this would be.Spent alot of time trying to figure out ,but no clue.
Answer Firstly, I apologize for my answer taking so long. I have not been on this site for a while due to a family emergency and have not had the time to answer questions, though I wanted to at least take a stab at yours. So thank you for your patience.
I will try to help with your problem. I don't own an Xbox nor have I dealt with a television of that type and size before so I may not have the solution, but I will try giving you some ideas. The jacks that you are referring to that are 1 red and 1 white for the stereo audio, and 1 red, 1 blue, and 1 green for the component video are known as component connections. They split the video signal into 3 separate jets that make the picture super clear with no bleeding like you will see with a yellow video cable.
My first suggestion, which is going to seem fairly obvious is, make sure you don't have the red audio cable and the red video cable mixed up and inserted in the wrong place. I have never tried to confuse the two on purpose before, but I can imagine it not working quite right.
My second suggestion is to check if your TV has some sort of vertical or horizontal hold control or screen placement control. Some TVs have the ability to allow you to move where the picture displays on them to a limited degree and perhaps the default placement got moved around some so the picture displays the way it does.
Third, I would check your Xbox and make sure the settings for progressive scan are the same as what your TV allows and can accomodate. If you turn on a progressive scan feature when the TV doesn't support it, or the TV has it set on but the game system doesn't, it can cause all sorts of weird things to happen.
And lastly, at least for now, check and see if the TV you are using doesn't have some sort of split screen capability or side by side picture capability. Not many do but if yours does I'm sure that would effect how your game is displaying.
These are the ideas I have for now. Obviously without being able to be physically present, I can't actually troubleshoot this problem personally. Let me know what if any results you get from these options and I can try to assist you further. Also if your TV does happen to have any advanced features like some of the ones I've mentioned above, it would be nice to know so I know what sort of things to consider in future attempts to help.
