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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jun 23, 2005 9:08:01 GMT -5
Okay, so we got a portable DVD player today, since we're going to Paris tomorrow (to use for the 5-hour ride in the car). Really cool and all ;D And obviously, the first thing I wanted to try was to see if I could connect a console to it (a Nintendo console of course  ). My GameCube was still connected to the TV and I didn't feel like disconnecting it, so I got my SNES from upstairs and tried that... The good news: it worked ;D The bad news: it doesn't display right... I can see everything, but the colours aren't right. Well, sometimes they are, but most of the time not. So, does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried setting the DVD player's region to PAL (my SNES is too) but it didn't work: still the same. Also, please reply as soon as possible: I'd like to bring my SNES along tomorrow ;D |
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jun 23, 2005 11:25:37 GMT -5
I don't have an SNES (only Super Famicom) so I don't know how to respond;
and I have the exactly same problem for my GameCube's digital output using my monitor - but that can be a problem of the cable of the Gamecube itself. Anyway, the problem isn't that serious... I can still play and see every pixel clearly!
Anyway, may I ask you a few questions:
1. Have you tried it with your Gamecube? How about other devices like DVs? I need to see if if is the problem of your SNES or the DVD player.
2. Try to use other things like S-Video or RGB output instead - if your DVD player supports them (Okay, I know that your DVD player isn't a TV and may not support all these)
3. Is the audio part okay?
That's all I want to ask - but if you feel like to, can you please tell me how mich does your neat DVD player cost? I may want to have a little screen that supports AV or S-Video output (TV cable is not neccessary though) that is cheap and portable - so that I can stop asking my family to use their TV and cause inconvenience.
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jun 23, 2005 12:58:56 GMT -5
No, I haven't tried it with my GameCube or any other devices... I'll try the GameCube in a few minutes  Don't think this DVD player supports it. I'll check it out later though. Yep, audio sounds perfect. No problem with that. Oh, and the one we got costs about € 200,- |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 23, 2005 13:12:05 GMT -5
The colour problem is either due to the system not accepting the regional signal (in this case PAL) or not accommodating variations in signal - though this latter case I wouldn't expect from a SNES game. It mainly only happens to me when I try to play my American games through WinTV or something - and they switch to PAL60. Means I can't get screenshots from Metroid Prime 2  |
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jun 23, 2005 13:41:55 GMT -5
Alright, I just tried my GameCube on the DVD player, and it turns out it works perfect! No strange colours or anything ;D Only problem is that I can't play in 60 Hz mode. But that's no big deal, I'll just play in 50 Hz mode So I guess the problem was with the SNES then. I wonder what it could be though? ...I wonder if my parents will let me take my GameCube to Paris tomorrow |
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jun 25, 2005 14:59:13 GMT -5
Hope they will, although If that's me I wouldn't allow myself to bring anything expensive with me - including Gamecube. And your DVD player... ugh... 200 pounds, uh? I think I'd just save up and use them to buy about 10 games instead. Which is more worthy for me, uh? It could either be as what Fryguy said, or ... try to plug your SNES into your TV. try all combination out! Anyway, I don't think it's the problem of your SNES. (In most cases, Nintendo systems don't depreciates too quickly, and do expect that you can play for 20 years for every system.) I hope other people will help you out, since I don't have much experience to duel with TV - I had to do a lot of research to install my TV card! |
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jun 27, 2005 6:56:59 GMT -5
And your DVD player... ugh... 200 pounds, uh? 200 Euros, actually... That's about 130 pounds |
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jun 27, 2005 13:34:29 GMT -5
Oops, I misread the sign. Now I must look for an eye doctor, for I cannot distinguish E's and L's. Anyway, 130 pounds is still too much for me to consider. If that money is used for buying a new pair of SATA hard disks w/ a RAID card or for buying the Rev, that'll be acceptable. So, have you tried to make sure that it is not the problem of your SNES? I hope it won't retire, at least not before you can download SNES games. (Even if you can, haveing your SNES malfunction can still make you lose all game save data of ALL your SNES game. Anyway, why not bring a Gamecube, GBA or Nintendo DS instead so that you don't have to worry about all these? |
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jun 28, 2005 7:11:52 GMT -5
Yeah, 130 pounds/200 euros is quite a bit of money. But I didn't buy it myself, my mom did... She bought it just to watch DVDs, the fact that you can connect consoles to it is just a nice extra I hadn't used my SNES for a few months before I connected it to that DVD player. But before that it seemed to work fine... I'll try it on the TV in my room later to see if it still works correctly. Anyway, yesterday I got home from our trip to Paris... On Saturday we went to DisneyLand Paris (which was pretty cool, especially because they had a small arcade there ;D) and on Sunday to Paris (which was okay). It was a pretty long ride... 8 hours >_> Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to bring my GameCube, but I watched some DVDs in the car, which was pretty cool too. I watched Shrek 2 twice, and some other movies |
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jun 29, 2005 2:32:55 GMT -5
Let's see... having an AV port for a DVD player is a VERY nice feature!
I have a strong feeling that your SNES should be fine. Nintendo consoles have been proving themselves to have a long usable time!
When I went on some trips to foreign countries, my mom encouraged me to bring phones and consoles and everything... but I didn't. Money is not more important than my life, but is more important than just some entertainment - assume that the consoles/phones/PDAs will be stolen.
8 hours... such a long trip... enough you to watch 4 or 5 movies huh? (And yeah, I did watch Shrek 2 once, but have no DVDs of it. I watched it in a movie theater.)
I'm particularly interested on whta's the small arcade about? I personally am not interested in arcades, but still wonder what that is.
And... there are not any power supply on your train/car/coach/anything, right? How are you supposed to play GC?
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jun 29, 2005 4:12:38 GMT -5
Yeah, 8 hours is pretty long... I didn't watch that much movies though, since my sister wanted to watch some movies too. I think the arcade in DisneyLand had about 15 to 20 arcade machines... It was kind of expensive though. There was a machine where you could exchange money into coins to use with the arcade machines. You had to insert 2 euros to get one coin, which I think is quite expensive... So I only played one game... It was a rail shooter (walk along a pre-set path and shoot enemies... my favourite arcade game genre next to SHMUPs  about the Lost World, you had to shoot dino's and stuff I played it with my sister, it was pretty fun (also the first time I played a rail shooter with a light gun) And there is a power supply in the car actually... I don't really know how it works and stuff, but my dad also uses it for his PDA. We already have a splitter for it so that we can connect more things to it, so I just need something to make sure I can connect the GameCube to it (the GameCube's adapter and the car's power supplier-thingy have different connections), then it should work |
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jun 29, 2005 14:02:52 GMT -5
2 Euros for ONE coin!? Oh, if that's me I'll refuse to play it.
I've once been in UK (very long ago, and I stayed for barely 3 weeks), and at the place I stayed also has arcades... One Metal Slug 3, one Taito's bubble shooting game that I forgot what it is, and one NAMCO's 64-bit racing game which I forgot what its name is. For all of them one game is about 50 penny... but for even that price I thought it was, already, very expensive. (I was looking for 20 penny per game!)
The car power supply shouldn't be compatiable with normal 110V or 220V adapters isn't it...? weirdo. Some PDAs has the car power supply plug as its charging interface though.
Well, sorry for bring off-topic for sooooo long, but I'm still curious on something...
(1) how's your SNES now? dit you tried it on your TV? Did you also tried S-video - if you have that cable?
(2) What is your dad's PDA? A Palm? A PPC? A Linux PDA? or other? (As for me, I have a Palm IIIc (how retro it is...) and an Xplore G88 Palm phone. I'm not going to buy a new one unless my old one is down.)
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about the Lost World, you had to shoot dino's and stuff