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Hi Helen,
I bought a Super Nintendo console and the seller assures me at was in perfect working order when sent but i just cant get a picture. there are two cords supplied. the first is the AC adapter which i connected to the console and then to the electricity supply. the other cord is just a plain wire that has sockets similar to that of a RF cord but there is no box it is simply a cord. i connected one end of this to the console and the other i plugged into the television into the same slot that the digital sky box or outdoors aerial connects to. then i put it on a random channel and pressed auto tune but it didn't work. the console light comes on so i know it is working but nothing comes up on the screen. someone suggested that because my television has built in freeview that it is therefore a digital television and so will not work with an analogue game. are they right?
Taurs
P.S sorry for the length of email, i just wanted to present you with as much info as poss!
Don't worry about the length- detail is important!
It seems the problem is that the RF switch they sent you isn't one at all. You'll need to get a real RF adapter switch or a video out for the SNES. They normally don't cost more than a few dollars. You can generally find them online or at a local electronics and/or gaming shop. =)
I'm confused as to what the seller thought you'd do with that. It sounds like perhaps he/she was trying to run it through a cable line or possibly even S video but the SNES doesn't support either.
Please let me know if I can help you further or with anything else.
Best wishes,
Helen =)
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Helen Joan Casper
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Ever since I played "Pong" in the early 80's, I've been a video game aficionado. I can answer hardware & games questions about PSP (PlayStation Portable), all PlayStation (1,2,& 3), Wii, Wii Fit, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo (NES), Super Nintendo, Gameboy/Gameboy Advance, and antiquated systems (ColecoVision, Atari, Sega, etc). I can answer hardware questions about all systems (including PS1 - PS3, Wii, NES, SNES, PSP, DS, GBA, GB, Xbox and Xbox 360). I can also answer PC game questions, especially CounterStrike: Source, Vampire: Bloodlines, Half-Life 1&2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and all Sims & Sims 2 questions. I am ESPECIALLY knowledgeable in Square-Enix (formerly SquareSoft) games such as ALL the Final Fantasy games (I can even tell you really obscure things about these games). If I haven't played the game yet I will research it and help you find the answer, renting the game if necessary. I can even answer questions dealing with the consoles themselves (hardware questions). I cannot answer questions about Action Replay. I cannot answer questions about football, basketball, or wrestling sports games. I also have very limited knowledge about Xbox & Xbox 360 games unless they are cross-platform. If it is an independent game that has not been widely published and/or a game only released in some countries, I may not be able to help with it either (sadly!)
Experience
I currently am employed as a supervisor for a large, national video game retailer. I am also an expert here in games/roleplaying games, weddings, childbirth, and doulas. My husband is a computer programmer and one of the forefront coders for CounterStrike: Source scripts & mods. He has his own forums for coders/scripters at Mattie.Info. I have been an expert here since 2000 (under the name of Helen Chipman) and also volunteer on numerous other game-related websites and forums.
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