Unit 19

For part of Unit 19 i have to show how to set up a games console, i have chosen to use a PS2 for this.

Setting up a console is a very easy process.

The back of any console will have two main ports, the arial cable which differs depending on the console, The arial cable for the PS2 is reletivly and goes in where the above picture shows in the bottom right hand corner of the bottom left if the console is stood on its side.
The power cable is a figure of 8, named so due to shape of the casing around the connection points that line up with the Pins in the port just below the power switch at the top right, a figure of 8 power cable is a fairly common cable, my CD player uses a figure of 8 cable, one that i have used for my PS2 at times.


The front of the PS2 has the contoller and memory card ports, both of these are unique ports, the conroller has a connection that is a flat 9 pin sperated into three segments, this plugs into its corosponding port beneath the flap that actually says memory card, the port on the left is for player one and the one on the right for player 2.
The memory card is a flash card similar to that of an SD card and is containd within the plastic casing, it goes into the memory card slot which is covered by a flap.


The other end of the aerial cable ends in a Phono connection with three seperate one pin connections, these three pins are colour coded as red, white and yellow, two are for video and one for Audio. the connection on the back of the TV usually will have these colour coded although the yellow audio cable is sometimes slightly off to the side


Some TV's such as my own use a scart connection, in this case there are converters for this, the Phono cable is pluged into the Phono to scart connector, again colour coded, which is then plugged into the scart connection in the TV. In the cases of both Scart and Phono the picture is usually access through the AV channel.