Very stupid question..but i gatta get it out...

DBoz · Post by **DBoz** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:30 pm

Whats the AF switch on the side of the NES? its the white colored plug.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:32 pm

wait, the switch or the plug? The switch changes the channel the game goes to, and the plug is what goes to the TV via the automatic switchbox

scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:27 pm

I think we might be dealing with someone who is from the post RF adapter era. Probably anyone younger than 17 or so has never had to deal with a TV that doesn't have AV inputs.

DBoz, back in the day, not every TV had AV input. So the only way to get a picture on your TV was having the NES generate RF signals of its own. It's like a little TV station broadcasting a VERY weak signal.

The white connector you see in the back of the NES is the RF out. You plug in an RF adapter that then connects to your TV's antena in. The RF adapter usually had a pass through for your regular antena or cable TV. The little switch is used to choose whether signal is sent on channel 3 or 4. I think this was so if people had a lot of interference on 3 due to a local broadcast, they can switch to 4 for a better picture, and vice versa.

DBoz · Post by **DBoz** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:08 pm

hurray!!

Post by **Gamelver** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:31 pm

scherzo wrote:Probably anyone younger than 17 or so has never had to deal with a TV that doesn't have AV inputs.

I wouldn't be to sure of that, scherzo....I'm under 17 (15) and I've certainly have had the pleasure of using RF in my life

..........I guess that's 'cause I've been playing (and lving

) games since I was young

. my first games I played were actually pc games.....ah, Prince of Persia....Doom......Doom II ..............

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:06 pm

yeh I like meny outhers here cant remember when video game has not been a large part of my life myne was super mario brother a little later i rember playing the first final fantasy a lot but I could not read yet so I onley got like up to the third boss and Yo Noid I dont remember what order those came in and there are more than that but those stand out in my memery the most and outher games like "7up spot" and the outher mario games including dr mario and skate or die

Jakq · Post by **Jakq** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:28 pm

scherzo wrote:I think we might be dealing with someone who is from the post RF adapter era. Probably anyone younger than 17 or so has never had to deal with a TV that doesn't have AV inputs.

LOL, I can see where you are coming from with that. I am 17, almost 18. I had only an nes untill I was 13 years old. Now I have all 3 current gen consoles, a ds, a n64, a snes, and my good ol nes. My nes was hooked up with the old rf unit for a while, untill I just moved my nes to its portable home.

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:30 pm

I am constantly using RF, even today. I have a TV no older than 5 years old, and it has only RF.

Heck, I remember and have used 300 Ohm RF! I even have 300-75 Ohm adapters.

How many of you know have used 300 Ohm (two leads connected to screws screwed into the TV) RF?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:47 pm

I still do on one of the tvs in my bedroom

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:48 pm

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:48 pm

I'm pretty sure I have

(used 300 ohm RF, that is)!!!!!!!!
*oh yeah, I'm using RF today, too. on my tv there is only RF input...........

Post by **Gamelver** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:50 pm

^that was me......well, looks like I'm so tired I can't even remeber to log in.........'night all

......

dooda · Post by **dooda** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:59 pm

MM007 wrote: How many of you know have used 300 Ohm (two leads connected to screws screwed into the TV) RF?

hell if i haven't!
when i was too lazy to take the buy a cable to take the cable signal to my room, so i just plugged the antena.

i am 15 and since my snes i've been using RF. great stuff, great stuff... (both the snes and the RF)
also on my nes (wich i bought three years ago) i always used RF. at least until i bought my new TV and my gamecube

. (metroid prime kicks ass, so does MP2... would say the same of resident evil 4... but i only played a 10 minute demo)

scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:10 am

Well, I definitely stand corrected in the absoluteness of my statement. But I'm sure there are some youngsters not into retro gaming that never needed to use RF.

jaytee · Post by **jaytee** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:24 am

MM007 wrote:I am constantly using RF, even today. I have a TV no older than 5 years old, and it has only RF.

Heck, I remember and have used 300 Ohm RF! I even have 300-75 Ohm adapters.

How many of you know have used 300 Ohm (two leads connected to screws screwed into the TV) RF?

Yea, I had to use 300 ohm on my Genesis 2 when I got it, but that's just because I got the oldest TV in the house to play games on.

And I have tons of 300/75 ohm adaptors (and vice versa) from hooking up vintage systems that need that damn switchbox (all my working switchboxes are from the original consoles, so they don't have a coax hookup).
Who the hell even came up with the composite AV in an RCA plug? Did anything but the switchboxes ever have that type of input? How did it become the videogame standard for awhile?