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A profound mystery...
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Posted by: rubena
I bought a second-hand SNES from Game Traders the other day. Now, please bear with me, I don't know the names of the cables. But it came with the cable that connects into the antenna with a male plug. I have a certain dislike for those, and I happened to have one of the other variety, with the three plugs (one video, two audio) that plug into the TV. I established that it doesn't like going through the VCR, which surprised me, because a SNES I'd had previously seemed to have no problem with that. Anyway, I connected it directly to my TV using my preferred cable, and it worked fine. However, the next day, when I tried to play it again, for some reason it didn't work. The TV obviously still registered the presence of the SNES, the SNES was definitely on and working, but all I had was a black screen and silence. I actually took it back to Game Traders, they hooked it up to their TV (a fairly new one, about a year or two old), and it worked fine, with both cables, and they hadn't done anything different from me, except with the antenna cable, changing to channel 1 on the TV instead of the AV channel I usually use. So I tried again at my place, with both cables, and no success. I know the SNES is fine, I know the cables are fine, and I should think my TV is fine, because I have to problems using my PS 2 on it, directly or through the VCR. I tried changing channels, which didn't help. I'm truly at my wit's end, and also rather bewildered, considering that it worked fine before, but apparently the SNES suddenly decided it didn't like my TV or something. I think it's about 20 years old, by the way, it's a Grundig from Germany. The previous SNES I'd had worked fine on it, although that one had been from Germany as well, but I'd still think it'd be identical, I mean, PAL is PAL, right? Oh, I also tried it on another TV of mine, which was really old, with the bunny ears and stuff, but it didn't seem to like that one either.
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Posted by: RAcastClarke
Hah, was there a game in the system?
Obviously, if there was, the game itself could be the problem. Make sure all your contacts are clean, both on the game, and the system.
That's really all I can think of.
Posted by: Ocean
its not the cables, its the game. clean the contacts
Posted by: rubena
I HAVE cleaned them out. Repeatedly. In fact, I have cleaned out all the contacts on the whole machine and TV and whatnot. Besides, when I went to Game Traders, it worked fine with that game. Thing is, that's the only game I have at the moment, so I can't just try with another one.
Posted by: rubena
Hmm, okay, I've got it working now. Apparently the connector was a tad loose, I wiggled the thing backwards and forwards while in the console, and voila, it suddenly decided to work. *shrugs*
Posted by: Ocean
oh i didnt know the game worked there, i thought you just tested the cables. and you didnt say if any other games worked in your console, so i assumed they did. but at atleast i got the contacts part right.  just not on the right piece of hardware, lol
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