Hey, i've just bought a second hand megadrive/genesis purely to relive my childhood, and surprise, surprise it doesn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We're dealing with a UK megadrive, being used in the UK. All PAL.
The problem goes like this: I'm pretty sure the leads for power and into the tv work, cos i have the light on the box working. Also, the switch for aerial/megadrive works, and turning the megadrive on and off causes the tv screen to flicker. So the megadrive also turns on ok, but i don't get any picture or sound (although i haven't tried headphones yet). I can't say whether the megadrive is working ok, but not producing any output, or if its plain not working. The only symptom i've noticed so far is that the tv output from the megadrive is quite loose and moves more than i would expect.
Is this a common problem, and more importantly, is it fixable?? I'm happy to try opening up the box, though i don't know how much help that will be.
Please help!
We're dealing with a UK megadrive, being used in the UK. All PAL.
The problem goes like this: I'm pretty sure the leads for power and into the tv work, cos i have the light on the box working. Also, the switch for aerial/megadrive works, and turning the megadrive on and off causes the tv screen to flicker. So the megadrive also turns on ok, but i don't get any picture or sound (although i haven't tried headphones yet). I can't say whether the megadrive is working ok, but not producing any output, or if its plain not working. The only symptom i've noticed so far is that the tv output from the megadrive is quite loose and moves more than i would expect.
Is this a common problem, and more importantly, is it fixable?? I'm happy to try opening up the box, though i don't know how much help that will be.
Please help!