No sound from my Famicom

[toploaderleo]

I just got a beautiful Famicom in the mail today and it powers up. I hooked it up to my television with the NES RF switch. I'm getting fantastic video but no audio. My tv is set to channel 95 and also works on 96. Ive tried other channels and changing the famicom's channel setting. I still have the same problem.

[SPAZ-12]

I seem to recall that the NTSC-J specs have the audio and video channels separated more or less than standard NTSC. That would mean that the video appears on one channel on your TV, and the audio on another.

If this is the problem, then you would probably need two different channel decoders. For instance, put a splitter on the RF switch, tune the TV so that it gets video, and use a VCR tuned to the correct channel to output audio, perhaps to a stereo receiver.

[toploaderleo]

hmm, your the first person to say to use it through the VCR, Im going to give this a shot. Cause I tried to adjust the audio on my television, but it has no such feature.

[FABombjoy]

If these sources are accurate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televi...quencies#Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_...on_frequencies

...A Famicom set to channel 1 will appear on US CATV channel 95, with a 100% match on both video and audio carriers. Is it a genuine Japanese-market Famicom, not a clone or from a different region?

I'd try it on a different TV first, and then test the audio output on the CPU and go from there.

[toploaderleo]

Yea its a legit Fami, and I know I should get it on channel 95 & I get a pic but no audio Ive been told to fiddle with the fine tuning but that proove to no a vale. So now Im going to hook up my Fami to my VCR & hook the VCR up with AV jacks as a posed to a coaxial. this may work I think. :/

[toploaderleo]

Ok so I hooked it up to the VCR liek I said I would. Nuting. I tried hookign it up to a different TV & on channel 8 I got the opposite, no video and only audio.