7800 gearheads - signal ?

[BungBat]

Hello all:

 

My buddy bought a 7800 from someone on eBay, and they shipped it with an NES RF adaptor. I told him I did not think it would work with that, and it did not. We tried a straight-through RCA cable with an RCA-coax adapter, and the 7800 works.

 

He wants to get his money back because of this and the fact that the joysticks do not work well. What I want to know is if anyone can verify that a 7800 will not work with a NES RF adaptor. That would go a long way to punch a hole in the seller's claim that she tested this garbage.

Edited November 9, 2009 by BungBat

[SoundGammon]

It shouldn't work. Go ahead and try it. It won't hurt anything. And then you can claim it doesn't work with said equipment!

[the.golden.ax]

Well, the stock controllers are horrible no matter what person you buy the system from

 

AX

[+Mitch]

Using a NES RF switchbox with a 7800 will work but give you a very poor quality picture.

 

Mitch

[BungBat]

Using a NES RF switchbox with a 7800 will work but give you a very poor quality picture.

 

Mitch

 

Okay, then that validates what I found. Works, but fuzzy as hell and static. That should be enough to prove that the seller did not test the items as she said she did.

 

Thanks much!

[Bruce Tomlin]

It will not work, and it's a bit hard to "test" a 7800 without hooking up to a TV's RF input.

 

The 7800 can be modded to work with a Nintendo-style switch, and I did it once, but it was a pain in the butt trying to get the RF modulator open to make the mod.

 

And it's almost pointless to use an RF switch now anyhow. Just get an RCA-male to F-female connector, stick it on the back of the 7800, and wire it up straight to the TV with regular cable TV wire.