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Hello everybody!

Right then, I have just got SUPER CHEAP games for the nintendo that Rebecca gave me ages ago - but have never played because of no connector lead to telly and I don't know which lead to buy.

This has stopped me from playing games for MONTHS if not YEARS. Actually yes, about a year.

But right now, I have a cartridge of DOUBLE DRAGON (yessssssss) sitting in my in-tray and GOD I MUST PLAY IT TONIGHT.

Does anyone know what lead I need to connect a NES to a telly? If so, please tell me so I can go to Dixons tonight?

(Oh yeah and talk about beat-em-ups! Who is yr fave character in SF2? Mine is CHUN LI. Cammy, despite being a bird AND a brit in SF2 Alpha/Turbo whatever, was always second to Chun Li in my brane).

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone know what lead I need to connect a NES to a telly?

Isn't it a basic RCA cable? I don't remember.

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup, it's just a basic RCA cable.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I am rubbish. I am sure this should be a thing I should easily know. Maybe an "RF" cable, whatever one of those is...

I do not think it is SCART, at least!

Hooray the cartridge is *huge*.

*beams happily*

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Depends on the telly. In the US, old TVs need an RF Modulator, which goes between the cable/antenna input and the TV. Newer TVs often have RCA inputs (3 jacks, red, yellow, white). Dunno about the NES itself, but i'd guess it probably works off of RF, rather than RCA, which is a more recent (ie, mid-90s) standard.

But i could be completely full of shit, too.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh complete and utter NADGERS! Do shops sell both of those cables? Argh! Right that's it *flying leap onto google*

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

This page indicates it would be an RF cable...

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

RCA cables are available anywhere that sells electronics and should be cheap. You may already have one or two around the house if you have VCR/DVD player, etc. I don't know about the other thing.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean, I have to ask questions like this first, but SOON I will be making my own arcade cabs.

Oh yes.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

You should already have one of the cables. For an NES, either a phono to aerial RF lead, which every games console ever comes with (I own aabout 12), though I'm not sure Dixon's would stock them. Or a phono to scart cable, either yellow/white or yellow/white/red will work.

I'm sure you've got it working by now though.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 01:20 (twenty-three years ago)

NADGERS

That's the prettiest new word i've seen all day.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 7 March 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

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