Yes, I got the color bars when just connecting it.
It’s a good time while I’m here to update. I contacted Mike and my TINK is on its way back to him for a refund, my new Retron77 is setup and working like a champ, and my beautiful 2600, games and Harmony cart are packed away (as is my TI-99/4A). Hopefully one day I can resurrect them, or at the very least, display them. 🙂
Ah, I see. Well, I could dig out some of those plug and play joysticks later and try those.
Although, on another forum someone suggested sething else that might be it. The TINK might not be outputting 480p.
Some 2600 games are not perfectly 240, so if the TINK is line doubling an non-standard number, and my Samsung TV is super picky about the specs of the signals it recieves, it could be throwing the error due to that.
If you’ve tried a different console, or even a DVD player, to eliminate the RT2X as the source of your problem, then you may need to add a proper scaler between the RT2X and your TV (Perhaps an Extron DSC 301 HD), or something like a Framemeister to use in lieu of the RT2X.
I’m not sure how I can test without the TINK. My TV only has RF In and HDMI. 🙂
Your other information seems sound. It just seems like my TV + TINK = Sadness. lol
I could try another scaler, but the point of this was to get these two systems running on my TV for the price point the TINK offered. I really don’t have the desire or budget to keep throwing money at this to somehow finally get these old systems working.
I think I’ll just leave both in their boxes and maybe one day they’ll be of use again. Like if I get the room for an older TV or some other device comes out that’ll get these things working in a more simple and straightforward fashion.
I think for now I will contact Mike at RetroTINK to arrange for a return/refund, and use that money to get a Retron 77, and flash that with AtariAge’s community build. The TI-99/4A I’ll have to emulate on my Pi if possible.
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