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**Original TV Installation**
**Original TV Installation**


This page describes how to install the Innovation Game Boy Advance TV-out adapter into your GameBoy Advance system.  Please go back to [gba.html the main GBA page] if you'd like more information.
This page describes how to install the [[Gbainnovationadapter|Innovation Game Boy Advance TV-out adapter]] into your [[Game Boy Advance]] system.


Let me just start by saying I DO NOT recommend this method at all.  It will produce a [http://youtu.be/MMewJwq6zGY horrible quality picture] and is pretty much a waste of time.  I'm only including these instructions, because the manual that comes with the adapter is so poorly written, that it would be easier to figure out if it were written in Egyptian hieroglyphs!!!  I strongly recommend that if you're insistent upon doing a GBA video-out mod, that you skip this ribbon installation and use [gbacustominstall.html the direct-pin soldering method found in this link]!!!
{{Warning|This method will produce a [http://youtu.be/MMewJwq6zGY horrible quality picture]. These instructions exist because the manual is very poorly written. It is strongly recommend that you skip this ribbon installation and use [[gbacustominstall|the direct-pin soldering method found in this link]]}}


Anyway, here's how to install the stock adapter:
== Instructions ==
# Open your GBA and determine if the LCD video cable is 32 or 40 pin (image labelled 'T' for the tri-wing screws and 'P' for Philips): <br>[[File:GBAPage04.jpg]]<br>[[File:GBAPage05.jpg]]
# If it's a 40-pin, you can just buy the TV kit and use the adapter cable it comes with. If your GBA is a 32-pin model, you will need to buy the separate adapter kit (search Google, Amazon and eBay for the adapter cable), in addition to the TV kit: <br>[[File:GBAPage06.jpg]]
# Line up the ribbon connector -- the stock ribbon cable for 40-pin installs one way, but the adapter cable kit has a slot for both. Be sure that you use slot 1 for the 32-pin connector. <br>[[File:GBAPage07.jpg]]
# Push the connector on so it’s a tight connection. Make sure the ribbon cable is run along the side of the cartridge input. <br>[[File:GBAPage08.jpg]]
# Reassemble the case using the new rear cover that comes with the kit, and test it with your TV.


# The first thing you’ll need to do is open your GBA and see if the LCD video cable is 32 or 40 pin (‘T’ for the tri-wing screws and ‘P’ for the Philips head one):
If it's not working correctly, check the ribbon connector's connection.
  [[File:GBAPage04.jpg]]
Now that the adapter is installed, [[gbargb|RGB output]] can be achieved, or the [[gbainnovationcustom|direct-solder method]] can be used for higher quality output.
 
  [[File:GBAPage05.jpg]]
 
 
# If it’s a 40-pin, you can just buy the TV kit and use the adapter cable it comes with.  If it’s 32-pin, you need to buy the separate adapter kit along (search Google, Amazon and eBay for the adapter cable), along with the TV kit: 
  [[File:GBAPage06.jpg]]
# Line up the ribbon connector:  The stock ribbon cable (for 40-pin) only installs one way, but the adapter cable kit has a slot for both. Make sure that you use slot 1 with the 32-pin connector.  Once again, the stock 40-pin cable doesn't have notches, it just installs one way.  
  [[File:GBAPage07.jpg]]
 
 
# Then, push the connector on so it’s a tight connection.  Also, make sure the ribbon cable is run along the side of the cartridge input:
  [[File:GBAPage08.jpg]]
 
 
# Now, bolt everything back together using the new rear cover the TV kit came with and hook it up to your TV.
 
If it's not working correctly...it's probably because the ribbon connector method _sucks_.  For [gbargb.html info on getting RGB output], or to use the much better (but much harder) direct-solder method, please [gba.html go back to the main GBA page].

Revision as of 00:44, 27 April 2022

    • Original TV Installation**

This page describes how to install the Innovation Game Boy Advance TV-out adapter into your Game Boy Advance system.

Exclamation-triangle-fill.svgThis method will produce a horrible quality picture. These instructions exist because the manual is very poorly written. It is strongly recommend that you skip this ribbon installation and use the direct-pin soldering method found in this link


Instructions

  1. Open your GBA and determine if the LCD video cable is 32 or 40 pin (image labelled 'T' for the tri-wing screws and 'P' for Philips):
    GBAPage04.jpg
    GBAPage05.jpg
  2. If it's a 40-pin, you can just buy the TV kit and use the adapter cable it comes with. If your GBA is a 32-pin model, you will need to buy the separate adapter kit (search Google, Amazon and eBay for the adapter cable), in addition to the TV kit: 
    File:GBAPage06.jpg
  3. Line up the ribbon connector -- the stock ribbon cable for 40-pin installs one way, but the adapter cable kit has a slot for both. Be sure that you use slot 1 for the 32-pin connector. 
    GBAPage07.jpg
  4. Push the connector on so it’s a tight connection. Make sure the ribbon cable is run along the side of the cartridge input.
    GBAPage08.jpg
  5. Reassemble the case using the new rear cover that comes with the kit, and test it with your TV.

If it's not working correctly, check the ribbon connector's connection. Now that the adapter is installed, RGB output can be achieved, or the direct-solder method can be used for higher quality output.

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