So my aunt gave me an old NES, but all she had was the system itself and a few games. She didn't have any of the wires. Luckily I found this retro game store near me and bought a few cables that I thought was all I needed (The power cable so it would actually turn on and the audio video cord) but apparently I need something else? I'm not quite sure.....Does my NES just not work? The red light comes on when ever I press the power button but there is no picture on the screen! Is there something I'm missing? Did I put something in wrong??? There is another spot in the back for another wire but I don't know what it is. Any help would be awesome.
Power cable? You mean AC Adaptor? Well, you need an NES AC adaptor and an NES RF Switch. The RF Switch is that little gray box with the coax screw on it. If your tv (or whatever you're plugging the console into) doesn't have the old analog plugs that a coax cable can screw in to, then I don't know of any other solution?
you would need to tune it in put it on a channel and do a channel search that's what we had to do before hdmi and scart cables
I don't forget playing Dunk Hunt for hours and hours with that gun. Tengen Tetris used to be so much better than the Nintendo version. I still have mine somewhere, together with my NeoGeo, my 3D0, my Sega CD, my Atari Lynx and my Sega Genesis.
