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Long, confusing explanation

I keep my 16-bit systems hooked up in our guest room, since I have the newer systems in my bedroom. Anyway, I bought a used N64 cheap from some people about to be ripped off trading it in to Gamestop and offered them more, got it, and took it home.

Now, my RF switch for my Genesis broke a while ago, so I picked up one of those third-party versions that have a bunch of cords (N64, PS1/2, Saturn, SNES, Genesis, etc). I wanted to test the N64 but it only came with A/V cables, and I decided not to (at first) disconnect my Genesis which was hooked up to the same RF. I was curious if you could use the same RF to hook up systems at the same time. So I had both the Genesis and N64 hooked up to the same RF switch, and popped in Zelda (Ocarina of Time) to test it out.

I turned it on...to see the Sega Enterprises info, some a little bit of the Zelda intro, the "Saaay-gaaaah!" thing, and more of the Zelda intro. The hell?! The picture and sound was alternating between the systems, even though I didn't turn the Genesis on.

Hell--I didn't even have the Genesis plugged in!!

I turned them both on and hooked up the N64 by itself...it worked great, but that's very odd.

I guess the audio and picture mixed up and alternated, but how did the Genesis run without being plugged in? Just some leftover juice left in the system? Some power can travel from the N64 to the Genesis? I don't get it.

Perhaps because the systems are now connected, due to the switch, some power mistakenly was sent to the Sega which in turn caused it to play? Or maybe its something built into the rf switch?

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I'm with Hawk: it could just be something built into the switch, 'cause I don't think any power actually goes through it. In any case, no harm seems to've been done, so I'll just sit here and laugh at that.

LOL! xD

This post has been edited by Zephir on 28th December 2003 07:54

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You're all wrong. This has such a simple explanation.

It's CLEAR that you have a ghost in your house, dude. Call Peter Venkman.