If you open the Odyssey up, you will see different circuit boards that plug into a main board via card slots. Try removing each board and plugging it back in. One of them may be loose and it's causing your problem. While your doing that,check to see if there is any damage to the components or the connectors.
Just opened it up. All the boards are nice and secure, no busted caps or anything like that. The cart slot did need a cleaning but still nothing. I'll be looking into it more tonight though.
Edit- Just tried it again and I'm getting the line down the center and the 2 squares on the left and the right but one of them is very faint and it looks like the lines are either flickering or scrolling up and down very fast. Both controllers move the squares but I can't tell if the reset buttons work.
It looks like it is on it's way to working hopefully.
Last edited by Scrimble; 09-22-2008 at 03:49 PM.
Caps are one of the most susceptible parts to old age. It's also the first thing that came to my mind when you mentioned the video output. They won't always bust, often they just dry up. But I havn't ever played an Odessey 1 much less taken one apart so I'm sorry I can't help you out more.
I did have a doing-nothin Odyssey^2 once that worked fine as soon as I cleaned the dust bunnies out.
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