

How to hook up your SONY PlayStation
This page will show you the various ways to get your SONY PlayStation up and running!

SONY PlayStation
Ports and Connections
The SONY PlayStation has four different ways to connect to your television.
RF: the cable that was packed with all the units, but provides the worst picture quality. You should only use this method if you television does not have RCA available.
COMPOSITE RCA: this provides the good picture quality available from the SONY PlayStation and is much better than RF.
S-VIDEO:Â this provides the best picture quality available from the SONY PlayStation when using an old CRT TV.
HDMI:Â this provides the best picture quality available from the SONY PlayStation when using a new Flat Screen HDTV.

METHOD #1 – RF Connection
What you will need:
This is the method that most of you will remember if you were born before the 80’s. It was the staple method of hooking game systems up to a TV starting with PONG and still used for the XBOX and Playstation 2 (never do this). It is by far the worst way to go for picture quality. The reason being is that all the video and audio signals are compressed into one coaxial cable and jammed in to the TV, letting the television split it apart on its end. This causes a fuzzy picture, often accompanied by rolling lines! But if you only have a Coaxial input on your TV, what else can you do. Let’s begin.

STEP #1Â 
Plug the SONY RF Box cable into your SONY PlayStation. You use the cable with the end that just plugs in, not the end with the screw on it.
STEP #2
Attach the other end of the SONY RF Box to your television cable port. (see diagram) If you are currently using this port for you Antenna, Cable or Satellite TV, and you only have one port (unlike the diagram). Unscrew the cord, screw in the RF box, and then screw the TV Cord to the port supplied on the RF box (shown on bottom of illustration). This way your TV source will continue to work.
STEP #3
Change the CH3-CH4 switch to desired channel (your box may or may not have this, if not it is automatically set to one of those channels). The channel shouldn’t matter. This channel would be your TV’s tuner channels or local channel. Not a cable or satellite providers channel. On your TV’s INPUTS this is normally referred to as AIR.
STEP #4Â 
Plug the SONY PlayStation 2-Prong Power Cable into the back of the SONY PlayStation.
STEP #5
Plug the SONY PlayStation 2-Prong Power Cable into the wall.
STEP #6
Plug in a game and turn on the SONY PlayStation, even if you don’t see it on the TV yet. You should see the power light on the SONY PlayStation light up (a good sign) and you should hear the disc spin-up. Doing this first will help in finding the right TV settings, when you’re searching for the right channel or input and you see the game, you got it right!
STEP #7
Turn the TV to the channel you picked on the back of the game system. If you have a newer model TV, you probably have several INPUTS SOURCES available from COMPONENT, VIDEO 1 2 & 3 and so on. If this is the case you will most likely need to change it to AIR, which you may also have more than one option (AIR 1 or 2 or A and B, as shown on the above diagram). To change to these different video signal options, you usually have a INPUT or SOURCE button on your remote or television. If everything went right (and your game works…) you should be in business!
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STEP #8
Go play some Crash Bandicoot!

METHOD #2 – RCA Connection
What you will need:
This method will give you good picture quality out of your SONY PlayStation. You should use over RF whenever possible as the improved image quality is very noticeable. So let’s get started!

STEP #1Â 
Plug the SONY PlayStation RCA AV cable into your SONY PlayStation.
STEP #2
Attach the other end of the RCA cable to your TV. You could have multiple options available like on the diagram. You can place it in any one that is not in use. YELLOW is always the VIDEO and should be plugged into the YELLOW port. RED and WHITE (right and left respectively) are the sound and should be plugged into the proper color for the cable.
STEP #3Â 
Plug the SONY PlayStation 2-Prong Power Cable into the SONY PlayStation.
STEP #4
Plug the SONY PlayStation 2-Prong Power Cable into the wall.
STEP #5
Plug in a game and turn on the SONY PlayStation even if you don’t see it on the TV yet. You should see the power light on the SONY PlayStation light up (a good sign) and you should hear the disc spin-up. Doing this first will help in finding the right TV settings, when you’re searching for the right channel or input and you see the game, you got it right!
STEP #6
Turn your TV to the appropriate VIDEO SOURCE. You probably have several INPUTS available from COMPONENT, VIDEO 1 2 & 3 and so on. In the diagram above you would need to change your TV to VIDEO 1. To change to these different video signal options, you usually have an INPUT button on your remote or television.
STEP #7
Duke it out in some Tekken!

METHOD #3 – S-Video Connection
What you will need:
This method will give you the best picture quality out of  your SONY PlayStation. It is the method you should use whenever possible as the improved image quality of RF and RCA connections is very noticeable. So let’s get started!

STEP #1Â 
Plug the SONY PlayStation S-Video cable into your SONY PlayStation.
STEP #2
Attach the other end of the SONY PlayStation S-Video cable to your TV. Many times, if you television has a S-Video connection it will be in-line with the RCA ports (red, white & yellow) like shown on the diagram. So in this case you would still use the red & white audio cables, but not the yellow video port. You will plug the s-video cable into the same AV option as the audio cables.
STEP #3Â 
Plug the SONY PlayStation 2-Prong Power Cable into the SONY PlayStation.
STEP #4
Plug the SONY PlayStation 2-Prong Power Cable into the wall.
STEP #5
Plug in a game and turn on the SONY PlayStation, even if you don’t see it on the TV yet. You should see the power light on the SONY PlayStation light up (a good sign) and you should hear the disc spin-up. Doing this first will help in finding the right TV settings, when you’re searching for the right channel or input and you see the game, you got it right!
STEP #6
Turn your TV to the appropriate VIDEO SOURCE. You probably have several INPUTS available from COMPONENT, VIDEO 1 2 & 3 and so on. In the diagram above you would need to change your TV to VIDEO 1. To change to these different video signal options, you usually have an INPUT button on your remote or television.
STEP #7
Now it’s time for Ridge Racer!

SONY Playstation 1 Games
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Rayman
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Scooby Doo Cyber Chase
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Tomb Raider II Starring Lara Croft
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Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
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Final Fantasy VIII (8)
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Final Fantasy IX (9)
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Gran Turismo
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Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001
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