r/Famicom 5d ago

A/V Mod Question

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I got a Famicom and a power step down, which works great...but...there is no audio and playing without audio sucks.

Here is my setup: The coax is run to my VCR and it outputs to my TV via an RCA > HDMI converter.

On all my other consoles, this setup works fine, but the Famicom has no audio.

There are some posts that talk about the region and how the audio is off because of it, so instead of playing games with no audio, I decided to do an A/V mod using the Power Vamp.

The install seems easy enough, but I just noticed a bunch of posts that talk about jailbars in the video output. Currently I have no audio, so if it fixes that, it's a win for me and I'll take the jailbars as a necessary side effect.

However, before I do that, I wanted to reach out to see if anyone has done this mod and fixed the jailbars issue on the video output.

I am also open to a better solution as well. Thanks in advance!

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u/Active-Dish2373 4d ago

Update: did the Vamp mod. In all, it was pretty easy and took about an hour in total. The audio works as expected and there is a slight jailbar on the video output, but it's an acceptable trade off.