SNES not outputting audio or video through MULTI OUT

[Bada Bing!]

My parents brought up my old SNES when they came to visit from down south today.

I hooked it up to the plasma via MULTI OUT, using the cable I have for my Gamecube to output audio to the amp. I left the two phonos from the cable going into the amp, and plugged the scart end into my VCR and checked the plasma for output - nada. No audio into the amp either.

I always used RF as a kid, and never once used the other socket. Is the SNES MULTI OUT wired differently to the Gamecube Analog out?

I don't have any old fashioned TV's to test the RF out put, and am at the moment trying to hack together a co-ax cable to use the VCR's tuner.

[Yod@]

The SNES uses the same pinout as the GC (it outputs composite video, RGB and S-Video) - you should at least be getting audio.

If the SNES has been lying for a while, it's possible that the carts/cartridge connector need a good clean - if it's dirty, you'll often get a black screen with no audio when you power it up...

Testing the RF is probably the best thing you can do to start with.

BTW, I'm sure you know by now, but the PAL SNES doesn't like capacitors on the R,G and B pins of the SCART connector - you need to remove them otherwise you'll get a picture which rapidly fades to black when you switch on the SNES. These capacitors *are* present in the official GC lead, if that's what you're using.

Still shouldn't affect your audio though.

[Bada Bing!]

Thanks mate, I figured it out. It was the cartridge lock connected to the power switch. It wasn't pushing the cart back enough, so it was leaning forward and not making contact. I thought it'd still output some sort of video though...

I don't have a Nintendo screwdriver yet, so whenever I insert a cart, I'm pushing a 1p piece a little bit into the slot in front of it. It's all working like a charm now.

As for the caps, is it just on R,G, and B I should remove? The picture is a little jittery, but not too bad.

The plasma doesn't have a scart, so I'm routing it through my VCR and then up behind the wall via s-video. THe picture is slightly flickery though, and suffers from smearing on the "level 8-1" type message in All-Stars. I'll remove the caps, as I use component for the GC so don't need the video part of the cable.

[Yod@]

Normally with a PAL SNES, if you're using a lead with capacitors in the R,G,B pins then you'll get no picture at all after the first couple of seconds.

Sounds to me like perhaps you're just getting composite video? You sure your video is capable of passing through an RGB signal through the SCARTS? Most videos only output composite video...

[Bada Bing!]

No, you're spot on mate, but I always found if you fed them RGB it reads the composite info from the Scart anyway. I've got an S-VHS VCR which outputs that signal via S-Video up to my plasma, so it's great for my NES/SNES to get a non-RGB picture to the screen.

I'll get an RGB Scart-Component convertor box for my Sky decoder and SNES in time anyway, so it's only composite/S-Video in the short term.

[Yod@]

No, you're spot on mate, but I always found if you fed them RGB it reads the composite info from the Scart anyway. I've got an S-VHS VCR which outputs that signal via S-Video up to my plasma, so it's great for my NES/SNES to get a non-RGB picture to the screen.

Ahh right, I get you.

In that case, the capacitors won't make any difference if you're only using composite video/S-video.

[Shadow_Zero]

My SNES only has audio through 1 speaker. Any way I can fix that?
(already tried other cables)

Another weird thing is that I got a SNES RGB cable from a friend of mine. It's 3rd party of course, since Nintendo itself didn't produce RGB cables in the SNES days. The box of the RGB cable says it works on Japanese, US and European systems. Isn't that impossible?
I tried the cable with my SNES, but it didn't do anything. But my friend used it in the SNES days...

[Shadow_Zero]

Found out my friend could only use it on a US SNES, didn't work on the PAL SNES either.
Guess that it working on a PAL SNES is just rubbish or not?

And my SNES still only outputs audio over 1 channel.
No one who knows how I can fix that?