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Dracomaster01Dracomaster01 Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in PAX Archive
bring your own console room?

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  • TrainwreckXTrainwreckX Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Err... sort of not really? There is a classic consoles room. I think at one point they asked people to bring certain things, but I think that's all locked down now, and I know there will be ataris, dreamcasts, n64s, super nintendos, etc.

    Can you add more detail to your post and I'm sure we'll be able to answer better.

    There is also a console freeplay room, with all the current gen consoles and DOZENS of games you can check out and play.

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Just got werd from console freeplay that there will be a few TVs set aside for people who want to bring their own consoles.

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  • TrainwreckXTrainwreckX Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    BigRed wrote: »
    Just got werd from console freeplay that there will be a few TVs set aside for people who want to bring their own consoles.

    werd up

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  • Dracomaster01Dracomaster01 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I will be a with a big group of people and we needed a tv or 2 to play a NES game (Kickle Cubicle).

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  • TrainwreckXTrainwreckX Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dracomaster01 wrote: »
    I will be a with a big group of people and we needed a tv or 2 to play a NES game (Kickle Cubicle).

    As per this thread, there should be NES systems available in the retro room. So you don't have to lug it around if you don't want to. I know I would never travel with mine, just cause it's so bloody fragile.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=64770

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  • Dracomaster01Dracomaster01 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Thanks for the help, also, I couldn't find this anywhere on the internet, but I have a small tv that only has one cord link (i can't think of what it is called). It is a link thing where you put a cable cord on and would have to twist it to get it on, and I was wondering what kind of plug ins would you need for NES, I don't know if you need the three output thing (the colored cords that you would put in tv) or not to hook up the NES to my tv (my tv was made in 1997, i don't know if that would help or anything).

    Thats it, sorry that my explanation wasn't that great, i just can't think of the words and names for the stuff, any help would be good.

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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That's called a co-ax cable, but I can't answer whether the PAX TVs have co-ax ports or not.

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Raiden333 wrote: »
    That's called a co-ax cable, but I can't answer whether the PAX TVs have co-ax ports or not.

    Bet on them not having that.

    bring composite (yellow cable) or component (red, green, blue) for hooking up to those.

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  • Dracomaster01Dracomaster01 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    So, can the NES be played with just the coax cable?

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  • TrainwreckXTrainwreckX Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    You guys... It has outputs on the side for normal composite cables. Audio is mono, so it only requires two cables (one is audio, one is video). They look like this:
    Channel-Master-3118-s.jpg
    200819112625987.jpg

    You can get them with just white and red, which will also work just fine. Or you can use the ones in the second picture, and just not use one of the cords. Which two colors you use doesn't matter. I have my NES hooked up this way. My cable is white and red. Just make sure it is male on both ends. (Male meaning both sides of the cord have a penis).

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  • Dracomaster01Dracomaster01 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Well, sorry, but I don't think that asks my question, but can I use just and only coax cable to play the NES, since my tv only has that.

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  • AbsintheMindedAbsintheMinded Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dracomaster01 wrote: »
    Well, sorry, but I don't think that asks my question, but can I use just and only coax cable to play the NES, since my tv only has that.

    As long as you still have the RF Switch for your NES, then yes you can attach it to the co-ax input on the back of your tv.

    Back in the day, that was how most people hooked them up.

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  • TrainwreckXTrainwreckX Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dracomaster01 wrote: »
    Well, sorry, but I don't think that asks my question, but can I use just and only coax cable to play the NES, since my tv only has that.

    Oh I see, I misunderstood. I thought you were wondering if it could be played on modern TVs. I read that totally wrong.

    As the poster above stated you just need an RF switch. If you can't get one before PAX, I DO believe Pink Godzilla sells them. At least they used to.

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    If you are going to bring the NES (theres also a classic gaming room yanno) to one fo the bring your own console stations at console freeplay, you cant use coax to hook it up with. In the past most of the TVs there were "monitors" and didnt have a TV tuner built in.

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  • TrainwreckXTrainwreckX Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    BigRed wrote: »
    If you are going to bring the NES (theres also a classic gaming room yanno) to one fo the bring your own console stations at console freeplay, you cant use coax to hook it up with. In the past most of the TVs there were "monitors" and didnt have a TV tuner built in.

    In which case you should head my advice above, and pick up one of those double-male AV composite cables.

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