How to Connect Classic Game Consoles to a Modern HDMI TV

[@lorensims4846]

Nice! Thank you for showing so many options. I have a number of inputs on my TV and now I just have to choose the best AND easiest one to try.

[@mrtonytechnics]

I'm so happy I found your page, I have been trying to figure out how to connect my older systems to my 4k

[@baldkurapika7680]

My grandma kept my dads and uncles old Atari sets and all the games although he doesn’t have Zelda I’m going to buy the cartridge, as a huge Zelda fan I cannot wait, after just beating the two newer games I just am obsessed and being raised on 80’s culture and movies I just can’t wait, besides Zelda I’m looking forward to beating Miss Pacman(I think that’s what it’s called I beat it a longggg time ago when I was little) and probably Adventure!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Thanks for watching! Here are some other interesting videos: My Flashcarts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIaQdamjfMRnqKs 5 Minute History: The Atari 2600 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmnZkouFgK-rgbM 5 Minute History - Nintendo NES: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZDSf52chLt1Zqc

[@HarosOfStyx]

1:49 - yeah i found someone else who had that idea, but i really don't want an old dirty VCR right beside my 4KTV. Hopefully i can buy that somewhere other than Amazon.

[@TheSocialGamer]

I've slowly moved to RGB Scart for my un-modded consoles. So for the Jaguar, SMS, Genesis, Saturn, SNES, NeoGeoand even my PS2 all use RGB Scart directly from the console

[@ikura72]

Hi, thanks for this interesting video. I'm trying to connect my retro Intellivision console which has a European SCART connector, to my TV which has HDMI input. I'm using a cheap SCART to HDMI converter I found on Amazon, but the TV screen keeps showing "No Signal". Any idea what I did wrong and how to solve this issue ? Looking forward to hearing from you. Cheers, Kim

[@dadnkidsplay1]

Awesome game room! Thanks for the informative video!!

[@briangaumer7076]

outstanding video. One question how to you have all of the system routed? Are you using an HDMI splitter or are you splitting them at the RCA level?

[@bicentenialkid]

Thanks for a great video and I hope all is well with you.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Thank you.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

I would say just don't. It's a rabbit hole. IMO there are 2 options: you either hook them up to a CRT, or golden age LCD/Plasma (2009-2010), flat TV's that came with every possible input and were using cutting edge tech like wide gamut Plasma phosphors or wide gamut CCFL backlights. These are like 20-30 bucks nowadays and offer a stellar picture, outperforming any LED TV. A CRT is even more purist, and not too expensive either, you can find a decent stereo set with RGB SCART for like 50 bucks. If you DO need to play retro games on a HDMI-only modern TV, first try to do it with an Android TV app, and if that does not work, get any random 25 bucks computer and install emulation software like Retroarch.

[@barbarazacharias3224]

Can you tell me exactly how to hook up my Atari 4 player game to Samsung smart tv and what I need to buy to make it work? Please help me!!!

[@travismcdowell8352]

Do you ever have problems having a weak signal with your ColecoVision and 2600 even when having it hooked up to a VCR? Forgot to mention I'm trying to hook it up to a modern tv

[@dirksparrow]

Thanks , good video

[@barbarazacharias3224]

I have ordered the RF COAX composite video steroids demodulation tv tuner for NTSC. will be here on Monday I also have a Rx to Coax converter and a f type male to femaletv cable adapter. HELP!!!!!

[@kathymitchell4239]

Do you have to have a vcr to hook up & play older Nintendo consoles

[@futurepres76]

Two questions: 1. Do I need to connect the RF to coax adapter to my VCR or can I just connect the coax adapter to my television? 2. If I have my DVD/VCR combo connected to my TV by HDMI will this cause any issues with the quality of the picture? Thanks

[@intel386DX]

1 yes , you can connect directly to the RF on the TV , I do not know why he did not mentioned it, may be his TV do not have an RF , and that's bring up the question is this a TV after all 😂 LOL

[@lovemadeinjapan]

@@intel386DX All TVs have RF. It might take a 200 page manual if you happen to have an LG TV to actualy FIND the RF tuner in the menu's, but it is always somewhere.

[@intel386DX]

@@lovemadeinjapan I am saying exactly the same thing . TV without tuner is not a TV . (Even modern TVs have analog tuner , not only digital)

[@hercules29]

First! Great video as always. 👍

[@GregsGameRoom]

Thanks.

[@Schwabguitar]

What model TV is that above your consoles? I had the exact same model. Pretty sure we got it new in 1995/96.

[@DoctorShroom]

My ears are ringing just watching this.

[@aowens7035]

So, when you want to play a game system do you have to plug and unplug from that converter each time you change systems or is all of your game systems plugged into a large splitter?

[@GregsGameRoom]

I have an 8-way multi-switch.

[@addyou100]

If im not worried about the system displaying in hdmi do i need the converter or can i just skip that and plug right into my tv?

[@obtrunco]

There's one thing that you and others don't mention. Is it worth it? Because when connecting and analog output game to HDMI there's a frustrating delay between moving your joystick and seeing it move on screen.

[@HarosOfStyx]

Wow. Thanks for mentioning that. If i didn't know about that I'd be wondering if i did something wrong.

[@HarosOfStyx]

But it seems the unit at 3:14 would solve the issue, no?

[@obtrunco]

@@HarosOfStyx I doubt it because the way it converts is very likely the same. 😥 I'm going to try later using my TV tuner and route the signal via RF CH.3 to see if the same thing happens.

[@rhpuchner]

only if you plug and play around with your solution. There are so many certified solutions out there which are based on internal mod and external certified scaler for best video output.

[@2kBofFun]

Watched it again, and the RF route via a VCR is utter bullocks. The demodulator is IN THE TV. Yes, even that modern OLED can tune RF pretty decent, way better than any VCR could, especially denoising has improved a lot. Just hook up that NES or 2600 using the exact same cable that worked in the seventies. Just leave out the splitter box as there is no analogue TV signal to tune nowadays. And you know what, the NES for example looks cleaner over RF than over composite.

[@rjc7289]

What's the hookup procedure for a Magnavox Odyssey 2 gaming system?

[@HorseRacer87]

Trying to figure out this same thing to.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

RF cable. Done.

[@CVTinPhx]

Hi! I'm trying to connect my ColecoVision to a new TV. I have like 15 pieces and adapters, but no one can figure out how to do it. I've even hired 3 companies that said they could do it and they didn't know how to, either. How can I message you directly?

[@tonyshackelford5453]

Julie: did you ever get this resolved?

[@CVTinPhx]

@@tonyshackelford5453 yes, the Best Buy Geek Squad was able to do it.

[@rhpuchner]

@@CVTinPhx so you have now RGB with HDMI converter seamless to the Atari 2600 expansion module (e.g. plugin an atari module automatically switches to hdmi)?

[@lukeman42]

I need help on Sega Master System can't get it using viseo tv

[@darrencashen7064]

I'm hoping you or someone can help me out I've no clue what the cable would be called to connect the sega master system II to in order to connect to hdmi. Thanks for anyone who is willing to give a direct answer. Younger generation here just need a basic answer so I can connect it to a box and then to hdmi so my mother can play her old system again also would anyone know how to help me identify what chip thing is from what from a cartridge it's separate and I have an empty cartridge and don't want to reconnect it to the wrong one thanks in advance

[@2kBofFun]

I think you are best after a 2010-ish AV receiver, 50 bucks max, it will also fix the garbage audio of moder TVs in one go. It was standard back then to have many analog inputs and HDMI passthrough or even analog to 4K upscaling.

[@KeithFroehlich07]

Can somebody tell me how to hook up an Intellivision to an LG TV? I have the standard hookup except I have a clip on addition to the wire, instead of the game/tv switchbox It's kind of like the endi that the original Nintendo had and you screwed it into the back of the TV I just don't know how to get to the analog channel 3 or 4 on my LG TV. Any help would be appreciated.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

It is there somewhere. RTFM. LG has the worst menu system of them all. It is harder to find than the treasure in classic text adventures.

[@AlessiaOsekre]

How we do connect to one TV.😊

[@GregsGameRoom]

Thanks for watching. Do you play your games on a flatscreen or a CRT?

[@segalover8700]

OOOOOOHHHHHH DADDY YOU KNOW ITS ON CRT

[@bidiptoguharoll1264]

Always crt

[@HarosOfStyx]

1:53 - is there somewhere else we can buy it? Because Amazon is garbage; no way to contact sellers properly like we do on on Ebay or Etsy.

[@2kBofFun]

I find plasma the most attractive. Sure a CRT is nice, but those are tiny and heavy, and a plasma does have that glass-tube finish that makes the whole image slightly fuzzy. Also they have a way better input panel, with 2x SCART (RGB+Svideo), 2x composite, VGA, component, 4x HDMI, RF. On my CRT's only one SCART does RGB, and you can't hook up anything with higher definition.

[@NOLADEEJ]

I've still yet to hook up my 800! Lol

[@GregsGameRoom]

Slacker!

[@fablanta]

I'm from the UK so I guess things are different for us the in the US. We went to all digital in 2012 for our broadcast TV (Freeview, DVB-T2) and built in cable is a rare thing. I was also wondering if an old AV amplifier could be used as they were capable of going from RCA (phono) to HDMI?

[@snichelsticks8653]

is there a way to do RF to RCA without a vcr?

[@nightruler666]

Snes, nes, genesis, tg16, and master system have native RGB support so you can run them through a converter

[@nightruler666]

So does the jaguar

[@giuseppedainotti2369]

👍

[@BlessedBaubles]

I’m SO CONFUSED!!!

[@thesiliconeduck5485]

I couldn’t sit thru this video because there was a very high pitched sound the entire time.

[@intel386DX]

So you are under 30 right?

[@intel386DX]

actually modern LCD TV sets have RF analog and digital tuners so you can directly hook the console to this! Even >I have one SECAM Atari 2600 that works only on my modern TV! the picture quality and the sound are fantastic for the RF standards hehe :D I do not have an old CRT fully SECAM compatible especially for the French sound system "L", so all my CRT even those that are multi-region can not tune this Atari at all, the picture very bed barely visible, and the sound is only static. There you are a demonstration of this SECAM Atari 2600 on modern TV via RF directly: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2KrfZ2mg9Npjqs

[@2kBofFun]

That really amazes me that TV's still can tune analog RF. Is there a single country that still has analog RF broadcasts? But maybe the DVB-T2/ACTS decoder chips can do analog decoding as a side job, so they kept supporting it in the menu.

[@intel386DX]

@@2kBofFun many countrya still use analog broadcast. Especially in Africa, South America and Asia. I am not sure are any Europe countries still use it as well.

[@2kBofFun]

@@intel386DX Here (EU) all is DVBT-2 now with 1080p digital broadcasts.

[@intel386DX]

@@2kBofFun I am not sure , but I think that Russia use mixed digital and analog broadcast. For example here in Bulgaria from where I am we used both signals from about 2010 I think up to 2013 when they shuteddown the analog :( And in Serbia for a couple of years after that (2013) there was one or two analog channels . Do nor know are there still any .

[@barbarazacharias3224]

I don’t have a VCR!!!

[@rhpuchner]

Intellivision (RGB), Coleco Vision (RGB), Atari 7800 (S-Video), Atari 2600 (S-Video) as well as Saba Videoplay (AV) offer the best video output on modern TV with an internal mod hooked to an external certified HDMI scaler. It's cheaper to buy a fully certified and restored console with certified HDMI scaler than doing it by your own. Btw. for SEGA and Nintendo Consoles are out of the box HDMI converters available. Dedicated for each console. So why wasting time to use RF and converters, wasting time to find out by yourself which is the best combination? It simply makes no sense. Modern TV have most likely only HDMI connectivity left.

[@barbarazacharias3224]

Flat screen

[@relaxtosoothe5017]

Lag.

[@GregsGameRoom]

No lag with the RetroTink

[@2kBofFun]

Ever heard of PID control? The brain does something similar all the time. If your brain couldn't do that, you won't be able to walk, cycle, drive a car, basically anything with muscles involved. Don't worry too much about lag.

[@2kBofFun]

Kidding mode: First of all, move to Europe. You need SCART if you are into retro gaming. The US is a mess anyway with politics, healtcare, pay your living etc. No kidding mode: Just don't try to use a modern TV! Get a GOLDEN AGE TV, which is any flat TV from around 2010. Preferably plasma, but a Bravia is great too. Those TV's have tons of inputs, pretty decent upscaling and denoising for composite/RF, cost like nothing (got a perfect 1080p plasma for 25€). Second best bet is a GOLDEN AGE AV receiver. Same era. They even do 4K upscaling to HDMI. Something like an Onkyo TX-NR809. So many inputs. That VCR solution feels really awkward. Oh, and the TG16, or PC Engine as I prefer, has RGB out natively. Don't mess with composite/component on the PC Engine. Just get the correct EXT-BUS->SCART converter. No modding needed. If I see people drill holes in a PC Engine.... my whole body shivers....

[@scarbo2229]

Wish it were so simple. Not helpful.

[@roseorchid7981]

The NES & SEGA is ez to connect to modern tv. Its the ATARI thats hard to do!

[@samonejones1687]

do you have an email address? I have a question and I want to show you some pictures I need help with my tele-game console

[@GregsGameRoom]

It's in the About tab.

[@samonejones1687]

@@GregsGameRoom thank you I sent you a message in Instagram please let me know if you need any more pictures or have any questions