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AppleQueso:

--- Quote from: zakurowrath on March 20, 2012, 11:30:14 PM ---N64 early versions are simple RGB

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It requires a mod. Not a SUPER difficult mod, but there's a lot of different ways to go about it with varying results. I did one but I want to re-do it sometime. There's actually a mod you can do for the later models, but it's completely ridiculous.

Nice rule of thumb for RGB modding N64: If the serial number on the bottom starts with NS1, you're in good shape.

If you also really really want RGB on one of the later, colored n64 models, it's very easy to just swap the guts out with an older model.

lotusoftheleaf:
I have six consoles hooked up to the single composite input on my TV using two of these daisy chained together.

I got them at RadioShack awhile ago. I think they were $20 each. I don't know how good they are compared to anything else, but I haven't noticed any problems. I'm sure I'm not getting the best possible picture quality out of my games, but I feel it's worth it for the convenience of not needing to screw around with wires.

wiggy:
^^^ Ick + daisy chaining 2 = double ick.

I would NEVER use a Radio Shack branded product. Not to be a snob about it, but their stuff is pretty much the cheapest of the cheap Chinese crap (no offense intended).

With switch boxes, like MANY other products, you get what you pay for. Now, that's not to say that you should spend hundreds of dollars on one, but I wouldn't skimp on this sort of thing unless you absolutely don't care about picture quality.

As far as HDMI switch boxes go, if they work, they work, it they don't, they don't. Signal degradation is almost a non-issue. If you do run into degradation it'll be incredibly obvious (image dropout, "sparkles" in the image, that crummy super-compressed MPEG look, etc), so there's really no guessing as to whether your cables/switches are working to their potential or not. HDMI is the only A/V format that I buy cheap-ass cables for and have had zero issues with, ever.

AppleQueso:
on the other hand, it's kinda hard to fuck up a switchbox

Velmeran:
Best place for switches (in the US anyway) is monoprice.com

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