Coleco Issues
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Gooseberrysoda
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Coleco Issues
Hey, evrybody. I'm having some issues with my Colecovision- regardless of which cartridge I put in, text is non-sensical and the games themselves have glitchy visuals- everything seems scrambled. Any advice?
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gtmtnbiker
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Re: Coleco Issues
Clean the cartridge slot.
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BoringSupreez
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Re: Coleco Issues
That, and clean your cartridges.
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Re: Coleco Issues
Can be a dirty, bad power switch. Unfortunately a common problem with the Coleco.
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Gooseberrysoda
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Re: Coleco Issues
The Cart and Port are guaranteed clean, I spent a looong time cleaning them.
Any way to fix it?Duke.Togo wrote:Can be a dirty, bad power switch. Unfortunately a common problem with the Coleco.
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Re: Coleco Issues
Not poked around my Colecovision in a while, but pretty sure I was able to take the switch apart and clean it, and it may be easily replaceable, as I believe the console was made with common off the shelf parts.
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Gooseberrysoda
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Re: Coleco Issues
Bikeage wrote:Not poked around my Colecovision in a while, but pretty sure I was able to take the switch apart and clean it, and it may be easily replaceable, as I believe the console was made with common off the shelf parts.
I'm sort of an idiot when it comes to these things. Now, I did take it apart to see if anything was glaringly obviously wrong, but nothing was, so I closed it back up. What should I be looking for, and what should I do?
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Re: Coleco Issues
Follow this guide: http://www.colecovision.dk/PDF/power%20switch.pdf
You can try just spraying some cleaner in there and moving it back and forth vigorously if you're not up for desoldering. Or you can just replace it.
You can try just spraying some cleaner in there and moving it back and forth vigorously if you're not up for desoldering. Or you can just replace it.
Re: Coleco Issues
It could also be a symptom of bad RAM as well, which is another common issue with the CV. A great console, but not so great build quality.
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Re: Coleco Issues
I agree with the Ram,otherwise its bad voltage supply due to bad connections,capacitors and the like.