Sounds to me that you hooking your vcr up to the tv through the antenna
coax. (the cable you have to screw on) If you are that is your problem. You
need to use the audio / video output on the back of the vcr and hook it to
the input on the tv. Then after you confirm that the vcr works like this you
need to hook the game up to the vcr and set it to to L1 or L2 or line in 1
or 2 something to that effect.

- Mike

"James Sweet" wrote in message
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noname wrote:
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noname wrote:


Just got a game for my daughter. The game (Hasbro's Dream Life) has
yellow and white plugs that go to the A/V ports on a television or VCR,
and then the game plays through the TV.

When I connect the game directly to the TV (I have to disconnect the A/V
from the VCR to the TV to do this), the game plays fine.

But when I plug the VCR's A/V cables into the TV and plug the game into
A/V ports on the VCR, it won't play.

The manuals for the TV and VCR are of little use in describing this. The
game's manual is even worse. The TV is a JVC purchased in 1999 and the
VCR is a JVC purchased in 1996.

How do I make the game play when connected into the VCR?


Okay, with a couple calls to Hasbro, I figured it out.

For some reason, the game only will play on the television AFTER I:

1. Start playing a videotape.

2. Stop the tape.

3. Hit the TV/Video button on the remote once or twice.

So it works. Yippee!

But the Hasbro folks said that it would be my job to figure out why I
have to do all this to make it work, whether by reading the JVC manual
(it's a 1996 VCR and there's nothing in there about connecting a game via
the VCR) or by calling JVC directly.


Well that should be obvious, the game is clearly putting out a signal, the
problem is with the VCR or the way it's configured.

Any ideas here? At least now I can make the game work, but I'd love to
know if there's a way to not have to do the tape play off sequence
first.


Perhaps the VCR is broken?