11th June 2010, 1:13 AM
Huh, so that's what that thing is for. I though it was for JUST audio input since that's what it looks like, but I guess it's set up to carry an RF signal.
It doesn't matter much though. I had to get a new Game Gear as my old one's transistors burnt out (a common problem in the early GG models it seems). The new one seems to have some big issues with the TV adapter. After looking it up, it seems my current one is one of the Majesco systems re-released when the Gameboy Advance was going strong. While it has much higher quality parts (so it shouldn't burn out the transistors), they apparently cut out a circuit that directly linked the cartridge port to the display. No games used it, but apparently that's exactly how the TV adapter functioned, and so that explains why when I use it, I get audio only with just a solid white screen to accompany it. I don't mind though, as "surfing the stations" I confirmed that EVERY TV station around me has turned off their analog broadcasts (static in every direction), except apparently for a very far away spanish station somewhere.
It doesn't matter much though. I had to get a new Game Gear as my old one's transistors burnt out (a common problem in the early GG models it seems). The new one seems to have some big issues with the TV adapter. After looking it up, it seems my current one is one of the Majesco systems re-released when the Gameboy Advance was going strong. While it has much higher quality parts (so it shouldn't burn out the transistors), they apparently cut out a circuit that directly linked the cartridge port to the display. No games used it, but apparently that's exactly how the TV adapter functioned, and so that explains why when I use it, I get audio only with just a solid white screen to accompany it. I don't mind though, as "surfing the stations" I confirmed that EVERY TV station around me has turned off their analog broadcasts (static in every direction), except apparently for a very far away spanish station somewhere.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)