What do you guys use to hook up your various game systems?

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What do you guys use to hook up your various game systems?

I have an Atari, an Intellivision, and a NES. I want to hook them all up to my TV with the least amount of trouble. I'm curious how you guys do it and what you use?
 
I usually just plug them into the A/V jacks in the back.....

:D

I think they sell a multi-tap switch box for such a thing. I use to have one in my old shitty SNES cab that I built a long time ago.
 
Switch boxes are the way to go. I have all my gaming consoles on one. :)
 
Any idea where the best place to get something like that?

You know, I'm not to sure. I think I got it at circuit city or Best buy many years ago. What consoles do you have? Because I think Microsoft and Sony may have different output's than Nintendo.
 
Get an A/V mod for your Atari, the newer tv sets dont have as intense gain as the older sets.
 
I'm actually working on something similar right now, except I'm trying to hook up:
7800
Odyssey 2
Intellivision
5200
Colecovision
PS2
xbox
NES
Genesis
TI-99/4A
TurboGrafx-16
Master System
N64
Jaguar
Saturn
3DO
Dreamcast
SNES

All at once. In your case, the Atari and Intellivision only have RF out, so you can just plug those into your coax input on the TV (usually the RF switchboxes have a pass-through, so you can plug the Atari into the Intellivision into the TV). The NES can also be daisy chained onto the RF, but you'll get better picture quality if you use the composite output on the side of the system.

In my case, I'm switching the systems with a mess of switchboxes, adapters, and cables. The switchboxes I'm using are from monoprice: http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10110&cs_id=1011007&p_id=3027&seq=1&format=2

DogP
 
i just plug all the RF adapters into one another and make a long chain, then plug the actual cable line into the last one and switch them all to channel 4.
 
Here is how my current setup is. Of course I don't have as many systems...

TV RF in -> VCR RF out
VCR RF in -> Sega Genesis RF Adapter -> Sega Dreamcast RF Adapter
VCR Composite in -> Switch Box
Composite Switch Box port 1 -> Sony PS2
Composite Switch Box port 2 -> DirecTV box
Composite Switch Box port 3 -> Windows 98 PC
Composite Switch Box port 4 -> Sega Saturn

You can daisy chain RF adapters but I do not know what the limit is. My TV only has an RF jack on the back. Better chances are to have a TV with multiple inputs. Also look into a larger switch box. But for me, I am more limited by available power outlets rather than ability to plug into my TV.

Of course my HD TV has a crap load of inputs but I can't run anything that is less than 720p on it or else it looks horrible. Even the PS2 doesn't look good at all.
 
I'm doing this right now as well. I am hooking up a Colecovision, 2600 and NES top-loader. I only have a cable jack in the back of my 13 inch color TV. Currently I have the Ninty plugged into the jack, then the 2600 plugged into that. Problem is, my CV was modded with RCA jacks and I'll need an RCA to Coax adapter to hook it up in the series. I would love a 3 or 4 way switch box of some sort.
 
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