Hi! Wondering if anyone can help.
Hi! Thanks in advance for reading and for hopefully helping a lost soul out.
I have a Nintendo 64. I've loved it since I was young but I haven't actually used it in about 10 years. I've finally decided to use it after all these years but I'm learning that getting it up and running isn't as simple as the plug and play design it was one based on.
I have an unmodified Nintendo 64 with all the original cables. I once upon a time bought a third party component adapter and used a scart lead to plug into an old sharp TV (which is no more) and this worked fine whilst I was uni, but the Nintendo took a bang one day, went black and white and I got scared and never used it since. I don't exactly know what happened that day, but either way, it's back out the box and I'm hopefully gonna be thrashing my niece in mario karts soon.
At the moment, I'm trying to use this on a Samsung LED smart TV and I know that it isn't likely to work, nor is it working for the original AV cable or the component cable. I've got a component to HDMI adapter, which is also not working to save the day. I don't have access to a crt TV, otherwise I would check on that.
I know the radx cables exist, but I'm trying to see if I could get what I have to work - I'm sure there's some sacrilege in the above that connoisseurs would curse me under their breath for, but I just wanna show my niece what's what on mario kart. I would eventually also be taking it back home with me and I have a 55" Samsung UE55U800FK smart 4k TV which I would love to have available for playing on.
So, treat me like I'm dense. Treat me like I've missed something obvious. Treat me like I'm looking at dissecting and alien and I have no idea what the green goo is. I (and my niece) appreciate anyone that may take the time to help me out!