puke_face wrote:Just want to throw this out there, Hobie-Wan and CRTGAMER, you guys are very helpful members of this community. My cartridge based consoles run like champs after cleaning them with these products and using the techniques that you recommend. CRT has helped me find instruction manuals online, although not originals, they get me by.
CRTGAMER wrote:Did you try a friend's N64 and other video cables on a different TV?
I don't have any N64 holding friends in the area, but I did try the cable wire and my brand new S-Video cable on another LCD and on a CRT; same result, white, flickering dots.
See if you can try (maybe buy one cheap Goodwill) a second N64 with a completely different video cable.
Will go a long way in narrowing down which piece is marginal. The TV, N64, Video Cable or Carts.
Silvermaverick7 wrote:Could it be a deeper console issue? Something to do with the chips?
Yeah, that would be my next guess. I have a SNES that something got fried and the graphics are scrambled no matter what game you put in. It's consistent every time per game which bits are messed up. Games still run, sound works, but you can't play because of the mess on screen. Has the SNES been badly dropped or gotten extremely hot? I never had any luck with mine, but maybe there's a cold solder joint where one of the connector pins attaches to the board or on one of the pins for the graphics chips. It would probably be a big scavenger hunt to try and find it if that's the case.
Silvermaverick7 wrote:Could it be a deeper console issue? Something to do with the chips?
Yeah, that would be my next guess. I have a SNES that something got fried and the graphics are scrambled no matter what game you put in. It's consistent every time per game which bits are messed up. Games still run, sound works, but you can't play because of the mess on screen. Has the SNES been badly dropped or gotten extremely hot? I never had any luck with mine, but maybe there's a cold solder joint where one of the connector pins attaches to the board or on one of the pins for the graphics chips. It would probably be a big scavenger hunt to try and find it if that's the case.
Silly me I kept writing N64 throughout all my suggestions, well same thing for SNES.
