GameCube won’t connect to Samsung Smart TV. What Gives?
Just to get this out of the way first: I have an HMDI cable/converter adapter(less than a year old too), so it’s not a just matter of having the wrong hookups.
So I have this smart tv and I have my GameCube, it’s plugged in and hooked and up to the HDMI 2 port on the smart tv. I press the power button on the GameCube: it turns on. But when I turn the screen to HDMI 2, the game doesn’t show up on screen. It says “Check Device Power.”
That’s what it says when I have a console connected that’s turned off, but it says that for the GameCube even when it’s turned on. When I unplug the HDMI Cable, the screen reads, “HDMI Cable: Disconnected,” so it seems to recognize there was a device plugged in, but it won’t show up on screen when it’s turned on.
There doesn’t seem to be a problem with the GameCube’s AC adaptor or the hdmi cable, but it could it be some other problem with the console that I don’t know about.
The Samsung Smart Tv doesn’t have any problem connecting to my other consoles, and it even displays the consoles name’s instead of the input channel on “Connected Devices.”
From what I understand, at least on paper, the tv should be compatible with the GameCube. And while it wasn’t a smart tv, it did work on the last tv I had, which I only got rid of last November after it got fried during a thunderstorm.
Does anybody know what could be wrong? Is it just some weird business with the tv that I need to fix in settings or call some support number for? Or could there be something else wrong with my GameCube that I need to get looked at?