My SNES isn't giving me any feed. I know it's not a blown fuse because the power light glows (so it does seem to be powering up), I'm just not getting any video or sound feed. It's not the "black screen of death", because I'm not even getting a black screen. As far as the TV seems to be concerned, my SNES isn't even hooked up to it. The screen doesn't flicker or anything when I turn the unit on. I was running a Pelican RF adapter when it first stopped working. It was kind of a weird one, it didn't run through the RF port, but through the Multi Out, like a set of component cables. I thought that the adapter got fried, so I tried replacing it with a brand new (albeit, off-brand) adapter of the same type, an RF adapter that runs through multi out. It doesn't work. I also tried swapping the AC adaptor for a spare one I had. No effect. I'm pretty sure it's not a cartridge issue. I own 10 game cartridges and a Super Gameboy, and none of them work. They're all clean and worked fine until the day the console stopped working. This isn't an SNES that I had in my basement or something, I had it hooked up to my TV and played it almost every day until it stopped working. I bought it used back in May. I really don't know where it came from for sure, but the consignment shop I bought it from mostly deals with local people, so it probably belonged to someone that lives here in Yerington. I live in Nevada: unless this SNES came from somewhere else, I don't think it's a moisture problem, even if the previous owner kept it in their basement or something. The case has the typical yellowing that so many NESs and SNESs have, but no obvious signs that somebody might have spilled something in on it or in it. The cartridge bay is clean enough to eat off of, no stains or corrosion whatsoever. I actually saw it "die": I turned it on one day, and the game started up fine, but then suddenly went to static, and then there was nothing. I thought it was a short at first, but like I said, the power light does come on. Before anyone says anything: -It an original North American SNS-001, not the later version. -TV is set to channel 3, as are the switches on the SNES and the RF adapter (tried it with both). -Although it shouldn't have made a difference (since the SNES was working until recently with everything set to channel 3), I also tried every possible channel 3/4 combination with the switches and TV. -There's nothing wrong with the TV or it's coax port. My digital converter box is hooked up to it right now, and it works just fine. -Everything else plugged into the power strip (TV, converter box, my Wii, and Wii mote charger) works fine. I've also tried plugging the SNES directly into the wall, with the same result: power light, and no feed. Any thoughts?
Have you tried an RF switch that plugs into the RF Out port? It could be the AV port is malfunctioning.
UPDATE! I took it to Game Force in Reno, and the clerk and I managed to figure it out. It turns out that it was a combination of debris in the cartridge port (which I assumed couldn't be the case because I wasn't getting any feed whatsoever, unlike when the 72 Pin would go bad in my NES and I'd at least get a jumbled picture) and an as of yet undetermined issue with the RF signal. It works again, but I have to run it through composite cables now. It still doesn't like the RF adapters for some reason. I'm fine with that, really, although it'd be nice if I could get the RF signal to work again so that I could have both the SNES and my Wii hooked up at the same time. My TV only has one set of composite ports. It only has the white and yellow ports, which also means I'm not getting stereo sound with either system. I just I thought I'd update this in case anybody out there on the interwebs is experiencing the same problem. I'll update again if I find a way to get the RF signal to work again.
AV switch boxes do exist, you know ? At least you'd have better video than RF on the SNES. And most common mechanical AV switches have four positions. You'd be able to hook two more systems on your set.
