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    Default Can someone help me diagnose what is wrong with my Genesis Model 1?

    last time I played was a couple of years ago, yesterday I opened it up and cleaned it.
    I no longer have the original RF or AC adapter for it, but I used the NES RF and AC to try it out (they are working cause it works well with the NES).

    But I get no picture, I have made a video of it and uploaded on youtube to show the problem, hopefully someone can help me out.

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6pUm6WDgKk

    Picture of my xbox:




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    To the Technical forum!

    Questions for you/others:
    1) Are the NES RF and AC adapters compatible with the Genesis? I'm pretty sure they're not, but I'm not an expert.
    2) Are you using the right channel?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadow Kisuragi View Post
    To the Technical forum!

    Questions for you/others:
    1) Are the NES RF and AC adapters compatible with the Genesis? I'm pretty sure they're not, but I'm not an expert.
    2) Are you using the right channel?
    1 - Asked around in another thread and they told me it was compatible with rf, 1 guy said not compatible with AC but another said yes it was compatible.

    2 - Yes tried in the right channel (3) also used 4 just in case.

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    Try it on an old tube TV. My HDTV doesn't like some of the old consoles either.

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    The NES AC adapter draws 17W, the Genesis mk1 needs 35W. That's likely the problem. My advice; get a mk1 Genesis adapter.
    Whaddya mean invalid parameters?!

    9,000 gigs of ram and it still can't answer a simple question!

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    NES AC adapter + Genesis = death. AC vs DC. Been brought up many times in the tech forum before, use google to get around the search size limit.

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