Cart CPR

[Trey]

I have aquired 2 Xonox carts that come up with a picture but the picture rolls. My instinct is to adjust the vertical control but modern TVs don't have such dials.

 

Any ideas on what's wrong?

 

In my 300+ carts I have had, these are the first 2 that don't work.

[liquid_sky]

Ok, you probally have dirty connectors on the cart. Here some detailed instructions along with pictures.

http://www.atariage.com/howto/clean_cartridges.html

[Trey]

Yeah, I tried cleaning and it didn't help.

 

What has me suspicious is that I have 2 carts (4 actually) all with the exact same symptoms. Sound is fine but picture rolls. Like there is a syncing problem.

[liquid_sky]

Well, what are the carts you got? As far as I know.. all Xonox games are NTSC, so we can also rule out that.. youve cleaned the connectors so we can rule that out.. i dont know what else it could be.

[Osbo]

might be a 'rare' pal version? u never know...

 

Osbo

[bassmanzoo]

Its not that 7800/2600 incompatability thingy that I read about in another post??

 

One of my Activision carts rolls when I play it on my 7800 (its the only one) but works fine in my 2600 or my Colecovision.

 

I was stuffed until i read the post about it..put it in a 2600...no more problems

 

Cheers

 

Mark

[Trey]

I'm running in my 2600. I've tried both the original wood grain and the atari jr consoles.

[StanJr]

I have a red label Solaris that behaves the same way (and consequently makes me very sad). Somebody said something about running the VCS through a VCR, but my girlfriend won't let me try it. (I am SO whipped)

[Trey]

I tried the VCR trick but no dice. I even have one of those old VCRs with manual tuning and I couldn't get it to work.

 

Were there any PAL versions of Xonox carts made?