RetroN 77

[insertclevernamehere]

I had an R77 that lost the signal to the TV after using it about 5 times over a period of several months.  Luckily the 3rd party seller through Amazon sent me a replacement after I paid for shipping.  That was at least a year ago and after having used the replacement about 5 times it too is going on the blink.  It keeps randomly losing the signal and I lose the picture for a second.  I pulled the HDMI cable out and back in again.  Still happened.  I plugged the HDMI cable into a different input.  Still happened.  That’s both R77’s I’ve had now fail after I used them only a few times!  What a heap of junk this console is!  No way am I wasting any more money buying a third one.

[insertclevernamehere]

Soooooo, I tried the R77 on a monitor and another tv.  For that, I used another, shorter hdmi cable.  It worked with no problems.  I then hooked the R77 up to my tv with the shorter hdmi cable, needing to move the R77 closer to the tv too, and again, no problems.  I'm surprised that the hdmi cable could spontaneously not work and be the culprit rather than any device hooked up to it but on the surface, that's what seems to have happened.  I don't know for sure because I don't know how these things work but I am worried that what's really happening is that the signal from the R77 is getting weaker and the shorter length of the new hdmi cable is the only reason why it worked.  And it's just a matter of time before I will need an even shorter hdmi cable, with my R77 on top of my cabinet below the tv rather than inside the cabinet, and/or eventually the signal dying altogether.  Fingers crossed that when I play the R77 again on Monday, it still gives me zero problems.

[+Nathan Strum]

HDMI cables are notoriously fragile. At the college I work for, we keep spares on hand because we know they're just going to fail (particularly with faculty plugging laptops into projectors and monitors). It doesn't take much either - the wires inside are incredibly thin, and the connectors are susceptible to getting bent. Intermittent problems are not uncommon. It's likely not the length - just the fact that you changed cables. (Unless you're using a ridiculously long HDMI cable.)

[+GoldLeader]

On 2/5/2023 at 2:02 PM, insertclevernamehere said:

Soooooo, I tried the R77 on a monitor and another tv.  For that, I used another, shorter hdmi cable.  It worked with no problems.  I then hooked the R77 up to my tv with the shorter hdmi cable, needing to move the R77 closer to the tv too, and again, no problems.  I'm surprised that the hdmi cable could spontaneously not work and be the culprit rather than any device hooked up to it but on the surface, that's what seems to have happened.  I don't know for sure because I don't know how these things work but I am worried that what's really happening is that the signal from the R77 is getting weaker and the shorter length of the new hdmi cable is the only reason why it worked.  And it's just a matter of time before I will need an even shorter hdmi cable, with my R77 on top of my cabinet below the tv rather than inside the cabinet, and/or eventually the signal dying altogether.  Fingers crossed that when I play the R77 again on Monday, it still gives me zero problems.

 

On 2/5/2023 at 2:28 PM, Nathan Strum said:

HDMI cables are notoriously fragile. At the college I work for, we keep spares on hand because we know they're just going to fail (particularly with faculty plugging laptops into projectors and monitors). It doesn't take much either - the wires inside are incredibly thin, and the connectors are susceptible to getting bent. Intermittent problems are not uncommon. It's likely not the length - just the fact that you changed cables. (Unless you're using a ridiculously long HDMI cable.)

 

I rather thought this as well,...

 

Like what if you got the length of cable you want, but spend more, like get an Audio Quest (Cinema Quest) or something?...Better be sitting down when you look up what they run,  but they are good!

[Trouble for Turmoil]

Hey, I saw on the Stella 6.6.0 GitHub page that I can disabling overclocking through an option. How can I do this? I tried to find it when I installed the update on the Micro SD card and plugged it into the console but I didn't see the option. I need to know as I only have a small window to do anything on the system with the update or else the whole thing crashes and I gotta format the SD card again to try again. Please help and thank you!