How do you switch between consoles?

How do you do it? Manually plugging in the cables? Some custom made 34 way switcher? I need to find one for my home theater, so I can plug in all the consoles I can get on eBay.

 

I use the Joytech AV Centre 245C. It's quality and has loads of inputs:
5x RGB SCART
5x Composite
5x S-Video

 

is that the one that kinda looks like an xbox360 ?

 

I pull cables out and plug them in. I use AV-Multi for the PS2, and an AV-Multi to 21-ping RGB converter for everything else (including my emulation computer). Only switcher I could get is one homemade.

 

The good old fashioned way...getting up and changing everything around. It helps stop my legs from falling asleep during a massive gaming session.

 

With my mind... :110:

Actually I just use a crappy little Gamestop switch with composite and S-Video ports.

 

Buy more TVs. Then you can play more games at once .

 

Currently where i live, i have a NES a PS2 and a Dreamcast. My tv only has one composite entrance so i have to manually switch between the DC and the PS2, and my NES is connected with the RF connector so i don't have problems with it (only until my SNES arrives).

 

I actually use to do this, but not at the same time lol. I had a TV for older systems and cable, and another with a busted coax for newer systems. It was awesome watching TV while playing Metroid Prime or some RPG.

 

I have a MadCatz AV switcher for the LCD setup. It hooks up a VCR with Composite video but the rest is just audio as the 360 uses VGA, the PS2/Xbox has a 2 in 1 Component cable, and a Xbox/PS/SNES/N64/GC S-Video cable. Though currently the Component has the PSP Slim cable in it.

It's not a big deal since I mainly just play 360 on it. I also have a RGB monitor with a SCART connecter for RGB wired up. I just plug in whatever I want when I want to play it, which really just means I either plug in the Saturn or SNES SCART plug, or plug in the Supergun. Also my NES is connected to it's Composite and Audio inputs.

It may seem silly, but if you have the room you might as well just get multipule TVs. I actually have a spare TV in the closet that is 20" but Composite only. I just don't have anywhere reasonable to put it. If I did I'd have 4 screens in this tiny bedroom.

Switchers tend to cost too much to bother really. The one you linked costs as much as a TV. Well not a HDTV, but you could get a used RGB monitor for that much.

 

I have about 4 daisy-chained RGB-Scart switchers for all the RGB and Composite systems, but Im needing some more switchers xD

The back of my TV and systems are really hard to access, its a pain to swap and change cables

 

i just keep one console out at a time.

 

I have never found a switcher than doesn't introduce noise into the picture. I'm looking for a decent component switcher right now.

 

I've got enough inputs on my new (but pre-owned) TV to satisfy my current gaming needs: 3x SCART (two of which RGB-capable), 1 S-video and one composite input. If I do want to hook up anything else I have to get behind the TV, though. Bloody SCARTs are so hard to insert without looking :-(

 

please let us know if you find one (ive been looking for ages too)

 

I have a DC, Saturn, PS2 and a Wii all hooked up now and since I still use plain, old RCA cables for all of them, I simply have a mess of RCA splitter on splitter on splitter coming out of my TV. It looks terrible back there, but it works and there's no switching involved!

 

no offwence but i never really understood this mentality, why do you have consoles capable of fantastic outputs but only utilise the worst possible?

dunno how many times ive seen pics from collections where the guy has shelves full of games only to play it on a shitty 80's mono TV bareley capable of colour, sell some of your games and buy a decent TV/sound setup ffs, these days theyre not even expensive!!? :shrug:

 

I have three TVs. A really shitty old TV for NES, Genesis, and other consoles that I'm running on RF-only (including my Saturn:crying, a small HD TV thing for DVDs, Xbox, and my laptop (which runs everything I don't want to hook up via emulation), and a regular ol' flat screen for everything else.

It works, I guess. Takes up a lot of room, but I can have multiple things going on at one time, which is cool for when people come over. I dunno, three TVs is a lot.

 

I generally have 2-4 consoles out on the desk with the tv and will swap the leads in and out when the need arises. Currently a ps2, xbox, 360 and coregraphx (2), although 3 have been gathering dust for too long.

For anything else I usually get out a boxed console, open it up, set the console up, veg, put the console away again, even though I have unboxed consoles easily to hand for pretty much every system I own. The whole routine, the sights, smells etc really gets the gaming juices going, especially on the retro stuff.

 

I usually manually switch them over (although I only do it with consoles - I've got a 3-port SCART switcher with Digi-Terrestrial box and DVD player). However, at present I only pull the SCART end out when I need the Wii - everything else I've got an RGB Mad-Catz cable for the consoles I'm currently playing.

I tried using a One-for-All 5-switcher, but it made the TV buzz horribly (I think it was amping up the signal, and as such it was unbearable when playing anything with bright colours).