How to hook up multiple video game systems. (MT-VIKI 8 Ports 8-In 1-Out AV RCA Splitter) 

killerklown79 I do not see why you could not hook two together. I am one more system away from needing to do that myself. It is awesome to have so many hooked up through on simple switch. Thanks for watching.

Cool thanks, Ill have to grab another one when i get a dreamcast.

Dreamcast is awesome.

Garrett Hintz same!

Garrett Hintz you put a set of AV cables into the out put section on the back of the switcher then you plug the oppitise end into the TV.

Yes so one cable goes to the device to the television , on the back of the device should be three color connections that say output that is where you would connect one end of the cables , the other end should connect to the video input of your television. Here is a link of the cables you need to buy for it to work properly. www.amazon.com/iMBAPrice-Audio

@@TheWeeman007 so it's a double sided av cable?

+William “Billden55” Burgoon If you have a 4 way switch and then guy this 8 way switch, you could hook this up on one port of the 4 way, and have 11 devices hooked up at once.

Coming back to this comment, now I have 2 rack power supply and 3 splitters for hooking up 19 systems to one tv

Glad you found it useful. Hello to Italy.

Ormai in Italia a fare retrogaming siamo in pochi

+pandnh4 I am on the verge of getting another one, with the addition of a Sega Saturn and 360.

+animateorange kickass. I'm hooking up a nes, snes, Genesis, and PS2 with room for a famicom and disk system in there. also ordered a 12 outlet power strip, you run out of room fast with those bulky ac adaptors

+pandnh4 You should look for something called a power strip liberator with pass through. It helps with the bulky ac adaptor bricks.

@@pandnh4 how did it work out for you?

@@yunglaytv excellent. I ended up using a different product with s-video passthrough but worked great. Still using the set up to this day.

Three Musketeers TV It is so wonderful to have so many systems hooked up and playable at the push of a button. Not to mention this one has the most ports out of all that I have seen so far. Most are 3 or 4 port.

animateorange Very true; I've been looking around for a while now and eight seems to be a maximum on these things. There are some with more, but that means getting into professional video equipment which sometimes can cost a lot more!

Not that I am aware of, but I haven't looked lately.

Red and white are for left and right audio. Yellow is for video. Do you see the word in or out near them? I am guessing you will find the word out (if any word at all). It is probably an audio out for hooking up external stereo system and speaker.

The Atari uses an older coaxial cable and will not work with this splitter. You will have to hook it directly to the tv, or make use of an old VCR, run it into the VCR and the VCR through the composite video. I talked of switching the NES to a old tube tv because light guns do not work on HDTV. The switch is not the issue. I could run it through this switch into a tube TV and the light gun will work. There are videos out there that explain why light guns do not work on HDTV. The splitter does not come with any cables. You will need a set of composite cables the go from the output on the switch to the TV video in.

Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly and for your informative reply! Appreciate it!

Yes, it can work for those systems as long as you used the RCA red, yellow, an white cables. I had all I had my Dreamcast, PS2 and Xbox all hooked through mine. I did not have the Wii because I opted to use the HD Component cables instead which hooked directly to my TV.

The MT-Viki video audio switch. Well that's what it says on mine, and I use the same model as him.

I think they can be called several things but RCA Audio/Video cable should get you the right things. Just make sure it is 3 cables, one red, one white, and one yellow.

animateorange oh.

I should also add that you most likely want male to male.

animateorange Awesome! Went to RadioShack and picked one up after receiving your reply. 5 consoles are all plugged in and ready to go. Thanks!

It's possible that your splitter is broken. Have you tested the cables to make sure they work?

@@animateorange it was fresh out of the box

Sounds like you might have gotten a dud. Probably should return it.

animateorange Opened it up to see if it could be fixed and both ribbons were disconnected ! Not sure if it was a Quality Control issue or if it was dropped during shipping.

It works now though!

How odd. I'm glad you were able to "fix" it. Or should I say, finish the assembly.

TheCoolOne DSFans my collection has grown a bit since this video. I have a NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Genesis model 2 and 3, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS 1 and 2, XBOX and XBOX 360. I need a second switch.

animateorange Yea. I had mines to work. My TV shows up No signal and when I switch it, when I turn on the console, it works.

+Jazzy Fresh This works with RCA audio/video cables. Something like this - www.amazon.com/Premium-Audio-Video-Composite-VF-34-RCA-RCA-CBLE-06-4/dp/B001VJ465O/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1461976784&sr=8-5&keywords=video+cable

StarBoy Jones TV That would be Gauntlet Legends on the N64.

animateorange does it play like Diablo?

Pretty much instantly

The switch is connected to the TV via RCA audio/video cable. The Yellow, white and red connection like the systems. As for a Sega Genesis, yes you can hook it though this switch but you will have the have the correct cable. There is a RCA cable for the Genesis and a Coax switch like the old Atari or original Nintendo. The coax will not work with this switch.

animateorange I just purchased this on amazon " 6FT RCA M/Mx3 Audio/Video Cable Gold Plated - Audio Video RCA Cable 6ft " for the adapter (same 8 port you have) and I purchased this " Sega Genesis 1 Standard AV Cable " I appreciate your help and insight. Your video is very informative. Unfortunately this stuff is very foreign to me.

Doom on the SNES.

Andrew Lummel I can not say for sure but an adapter between this box and a TV should be ok, I would think.

leoecuador89 not that I can tell.

animateorange nice, thanks for your review man. Long live the n64

STTTTIIIILL KING

I have an NES

+Stephendw I am kind of in the same boat. I have a Wii U and Xbox and Roku and only two HDMI ports. The Roku is unplugged because I can do most of what I do on it on the Wii U instead. I will probably be looking for a HDMI splitter soon.

Yeah, that's what I'm looking into. I tried freeing up some space with some stands for the Playstations, so it's easier to switch the cables at least. On top of that, I have a regular wii I use for roms and a dreamcast. For lack of a better word, it's a complete mess.

Can you help me I have a Sanyo 43 inch need help what cable should I buy to make this work

get a hdmi switch

You could daisy chain two.

Hey! Have you found a fix to this?

Corey dageek Glad you found it useful.

animateorange I'm just so new to all this stuff, but please I need an answer to this question. What type of cable goes from the switch box to the TV?

I know this video was made ages ago, but thank you for making it! I was actually looking for a AV Switcher. So thank you for showing me one that works like a charm!

PentiumMMX do you have to have a plug to plug it in your tv to make it turn on I have one but just have nothing else to connect it to

Massimo ba da da crash.... FYI, when I made this video, I think it was called the NX, if it was even that.

Should work on any tv that has the red, white and yellow rca hookups

I surpasses 8 about a year after making this video.

Oh man, that sucks. I'm still on the original and it's still working great.

I use the real inputs on the back of the TV. It's an older TV and has those connections.

Not that I've noticed

I could be wrong but I'm thinking a splitter would take one input and send it to 8 outputs. So you could play one console on multiple TV's. It's probably what electric stores use to play one DVD on multiple TV'S. So sadly no.

@@animateorange thank you. That's exactly what it is. Well at least I have it for when I need it in the future.

I have not tried but I would think it were possible.

yes there is we used to use something similar where I worked to hook up a bunch of tvs to a display video

It uses the same red, white and yellow av cables to connect to the TV.

@@animateorange is there any way i can get something like this but it connects to an hdmi port?

@@BearGurz perhaps but I really do not know. I suggest searching Amazon. That is where I found this.

@@animateorange oky doky

Pretty instantaneous

I continued to use it until I moved into a smaller house. Sadly I do not currently have the room to set everything up.

@@animateorange thanks for replying, hopefully you get things up and running again.

I am not concerned enough about the picture quality to seek out a way to hook up S-Video (which I have never owned a tv with S-Video hookup) SCART (which is a connection I have never actually seen in person) or YPbPr Component. I do have my Wii hooked up through YPbPr component as well as my dvd player. My tv only has two connections of that type so it is full. Plus, do they even make switches for S-video or SCART? That is more trouble that it is worth in my opinion. If I had to switch out plugs every time I wanted to switch systems I would never play, which is what was happening before I purchased this switch. I am ok with the video quality I get as it is. The games play fine, I can see them, and I have fun.

I have a Philips 4 input switcher that accepts composite, component and S-video. You can find it on ebay by searching "Philips HD switcher". I have my PS2, PS3 and original Xbox plugged into it via component. The Philips switcher outputs to the component input on my Elgato Game Capture HD. My Wii and PSP have their own HDMI adapters, and my Xbox 360 uses HDMI, they are all plugged into a HDMI switcher that goes into my Elgato. For anything that uses RGB or composite video, I have those plugged into a Bandridge manual SCART switcher which outputs to a SCART/HDMI to HDMI upscaler. The only console that I couldn't get to cooperate with any switcher I plugged it into was the PC Engine Duo, so it has its own SCART to HDMI upscaler that it plugs into. The HDMI inputs on these scalers also strips the copy protection, which makes it ideal for my PS4 and PSTV consoles. Finally, for my Nintendo 64 I use a S-video to HDMI scaler. All three of these scalers output to the HDMI switcher. As I said before, the HDMI switcher outputs to the HDMI in on my Elgtao card, which outputs to the TV via HDMI. So all my video game consoles end up at one HDMI on my TV. Trust me, after seeing all these consoles in their optimum video quality, it's hard to go back to what they came packaged with.

That seems rather elaborate and it seems you are happy with it. Perhaps you should make a video. I do not share your desire to have the best possible video. As a matter of fact, I have since this video moved my tv and consoles to the basement making a little game room. I just added an old tube tv and plan to move the NES to it (so I can use the gun again) as well as hook up my Atari 2600, 7800, and 400. I do not have anything newer than a Xbox 360, another recent addition hooked up through said switch, and a Wii U that is hooked up via HDMI. It severs my needs, makes me happy. Thanks for watching!

I have such a video planned for the future.

The RCA cables at 4:28

I use composite RCA cables (red, yellow and white). Assuming your TV has composite input. If not you will need to find a converter from composite to whatever your TV uses.

I think I got the right one in my cart

is it possible you have it on the wrong channel/setting? you could also have defective switchers.

Ernie P I'm not sure. It's a HAD TV but it's kinda old and a cheap model. It has lots of ports on the back which is why I keep it for gaming.