How to Connect A Super Nintendo SNES to a Modern TV Screen 

*FFS!!* I hope so!! It was literally only plugging in 2 things & screwing in 1 & one of the plug ins was the MFing power cord!! 😑🙄

Mines still won’t work!!!

@@dirtycreeksports3543 same. 2015 samsung

Glad I could help!

@@URTechDotCa How do you create a channel? I have a Vizio P quantum TV

Lol!

I was wondering about that. It sure looks like him

LMAO!! That is awesome.

The first thing I noticed lol

First thing i noticed to! Fantastic!

You are welcome. These are sooo much fun to play today. Thanks for the comment Beth!

@@URTechDotCa I’m going to have to dig out my Donkey Kong Country games after this too. It’s been a while haha

Where can I get the games to purchase?

Mine is doing the same thing with the av to hdmi adapter :(

So much fun.

Can you link the convert box please?

Thanks for the comment Retro!

Did you end up getting it to work?

Same

Same here :( could you solve it?

Same. I even tried an hdmi adapter, nothing works. I have a samsung tv if that matters

If you can't get picture to pop up when turning the Nintendo on its definitely not a problem with the cartridge. Come on man.

Glad it helped!

Ya... I missed that a few times... well, a few hundred times in the past too :)

I'm glad it helped :) Thanks

Old hardware with friction fit connections can be problematic. ...glad you figured it out

Soooo much fun!

It is sooooo awesome

Ya... I am with you, but I do like having my Tesla drive me to the next city sooooo I will put up with the complexity.

Thanks for the thanks :)

Thanks for the thanks Brayon :)

It matters on what type of TV do you have

@@Anonymous-mx1sg we can use that 3-colored (white, yellow, red) things and connect them to their socket (fit to the colors) and then change the tv input to the video mode... so there's no need to change tv channel... is that right?

AV cables*

I just used my remote and put in 04 and had snes on channel 4 and it worked. Hope that helps.

@@lillyfields5626 3-1 is the way to go or 4-1 if you chose channel 4 on the back of the SNES.

I just watched a video addressing this issue that said the contacts need to be cleaned

While my ex-wife would disagree, I appreciate the sentiment. Thanks and have a great day.

Thanks for sharing

Odd, it should work with your LCD. Did you change the RV to channel 3 and then 4 to confirm?

Strange right, cause I still only ever used it via AV. But I still have an AV output at my TV(from 2013). I've heard that the newer TV's don't have AV output anymore, which seems crazy to me. But I got myself an small CRT again, so even when I would get a newer flatscreen, I can still play my Super Nintendo on it, and the picture is also way better then with a flatscreen.

Wow... these were/are great Thanks Jon

Most of them have the AV connector with the 3 color plugs which were standard before HDMI. Super Nintendo straddled the a period of the 1990s when TVs switched from RF or Antennas and Cable TV became much more popular. So you will see both RF and AV cables. Then when n64 was released in the late 90s it only came with the AV cable you had to buy and RF adapter if you had an older TV at the time.

Glad to hear it. Thanks Focus!

​@@URTechDotCawhen i do that on philips tv and try to put on channel 3 or 4 it says that the channels are not installed, how do i install them? I tried everything and it doesnt work

Hellz ya! Enjoy James!

The picture is way better on a CRT, please stick with it. I got myself a small CRT again, just to play Super Nintendo on it. You would need an HDMI scaler or what it's called to get an acceptable picture on a flatscreen.

Having the same issue 😞

Never mind I found it under the TVs antenna setting it works but pixelated

@@Chickpeass Yaaaaa!

The snes outputs 240p instead of 480i and modern TVs don't accept 240p. 240p was hack on top of the 480i NTSC standard so 240p isn't a real broadcast standard when you play these consoles on a crt you would see a scan line effect because 240p only draws the odd video fields so it fooled the TV that the start of the picture was line 1 you got a true 60 hz out of the game instead of 30 hz technically 29.97 hz. instead of switching from odd to even Nintendo called it "double strike" most consoles before the Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo Gamecube and the original xbox used 240p

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If you’re talking about one of those av to hdmi converters on eBay they are not good. They introduce input lag and video noise and I’ve heard they give out after a few weeks. I would recommend a retrotink since it has s video ports and thats the 3rd best output on the snes, next to component and rgb scart but they are more expensive.

I think so!

Glad it helped. Thanks for the comment

Yes, AV adaptor was actually more common from SNES and then N64. But the early days of N64 there was a transition period. The strange thing is with TV in 2020 more and more people are getting rid of cable and satellite so the RF connector for the antenna is becoming more and more popular again.

I as long as it still has a TV Tuner (i.e. COAX connector), it should work :)

Me too, sadly. That's what I get for lending it to my sister. Sigh.

That’s my question too. I ordered a SNES on ebay & it was missing the rf output cable so i had to oder one from a different seller. Hoping that will fix my problem on my modern tv.

Might have messed up his last name.

ya... thats Mr Sexy