AARGH!!! I cna't get my famicom to work on my TV!

[can_dude]

So I hooked up my famicom that just arrived in the mail to my new HDTV. I powered it up and scoured the 90's level channels to find the image...no luck so I try the 80s...just fuzzy with an obvously distorted nintendo image in the background behing the layers of fuzz. I eventually went from channels 01 to 110 and got nothing...What's the deal? It has the right power and when Its on the screen gets distorted meaning there's a signal going through, but where to? If only famicom had A/V...thank goodness for my Sharp Twin Famicom I guess...any help would be great.

[can_dude]

So I hooked up my famicom that just arrived in the mail to my new HDTV. I powered it up and scoured the 90's level channels to find the image...no luck so I try the 80s...just fuzzy with an obvously distorted nintendo image in the background behing the layers of fuzz. I eventually went from channels 01 to 110 and got nothing...What's the deal? It has the right power and when Its on the screen gets distorted meaning there's a signal going through, but where to? If only famicom had A/V...thank goodness for my Sharp Twin Famicom I guess...any help would be great.

[Querjek]

Is the Famicom connected directly to the TV?

[Querjek]

Is the Famicom connected directly to the TV?

[can_dude]

yes

[can_dude]

yes

[Querjek]

Hmm... ok, then i don't know anything past that.

[Querjek]

Hmm... ok, then i don't know anything past that.

[Ed Oscuro]

A while back I heard that somebody was having trouble with their SNES on a Sony HDTV, image distortion again. It was at this forum...quite a long time ago, I think. I have no idea if that's terribly relevant, but it's at least topical.

[Ed Oscuro]

A while back I heard that somebody was having trouble with their SNES on a Sony HDTV, image distortion again. It was at this forum...quite a long time ago, I think. I have no idea if that's terribly relevant, but it's at least topical.

[Lord Contaminous]

If you got the original red and white Famicom system, you're out of luck guy.

From what I read, Japan's format back then was way more different than the US. On a US TV it would get a wierd signal like you would get sound on one channel, and picture on another. I don't know about the advanced TV or anything, but have you heard of the "Famicom A/V system Jr?" It's the Japanese equivalent of the redesigned top-loader NES and you can use SNES AV cables in it.

You can get it at www.gamechoiceclub.com for I think it was 90 dollars.
Just be prepared to spend a shitload of money, since this is on the other side of the globe.

[Lord Contaminous]

If you got the original red and white Famicom system, you're out of luck guy.

From what I read, Japan's format back then was way more different than the US. On a US TV it would get a wierd signal like you would get sound on one channel, and picture on another. I don't know about the advanced TV or anything, but have you heard of the "Famicom A/V system Jr?" It's the Japanese equivalent of the redesigned top-loader NES and you can use SNES AV cables in it.

You can get it at www.gamechoiceclub.com for I think it was 90 dollars.
Just be prepared to spend a shitload of money, since this is on the other side of the globe.

[can_dude]

I didn't get this system to play games, i got this system for my collection...I play my fmicom and famicom disk games on my Famicom Twin, the Famicom and DIsk System I have are merely for display, and eventually will be hooked up to a tv to play (5 years down the road) but if it won't work on an american TV, I'm screwed.

[can_dude]

I didn't get this system to play games, i got this system for my collection...I play my fmicom and famicom disk games on my Famicom Twin, the Famicom and DIsk System I have are merely for display, and eventually will be hooked up to a tv to play (5 years down the road) but if it won't work on an american TV, I'm screwed.

[Mike Sanders]

With the famicom on, do an auto channel search on your TV and see if it can find a channel that your Famicom's picture can appear on. If this fails, supposedly the system can be modified quite easily to add AV outputs.

[can_dude]

I tried the channel search method...didn't work...