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over the years you may have accumulated a lot of video game consoles and unfortunately your TV does not have enough inputs to hook them all up there is a solution to this problem my name is Steven Beecham producer for C net TV and I'm going to show you how to set up a video game patch Bay to get started you're going to need three things you're going to be an RCA patch Bay three patch cables and an RCA cable with the video and two audio connections now finding an RCA patch Bay is probably the hardest part there are tons of them on eBay and other sites like Google Shopping and Guitar Center comm you might also be able to find them in local music stores and electronic shops and they range in price from about twenty to fifty dollars depending on the model now once you have your patch Bay in hand it's time to now start connecting your consoles choose an RCA input on the back of your television and connect the three inputs to the back for your patch Bank on my patch Bay to make it easy I like to do it in the bottom right-hand side so the first thing you would plug in is the video plug in the video there audio white and then audio red and then those correspond to these three patches on the front making for a simple patch plug in the RCA outputs from your console to the back of the patch bay in an order that works best for you I connected mine in chronological order across the top of my patch Bay from left to right starting with the NES then the Super Nintendo Nintendo 64 and so on now I'm obviously a Nintendo collector as you can see here but this patch Bay does work with older consoles like the og Sony Playstation and the Sega Dreamcast here because they have the old-school RCA outputs so now that you've connected all your consoles to your patch bay now you want to label them with a pencil or a sharpie so you know what sources you're patching it to cube are so now you're finally ready to start patching your consoles into your television so let's start with the Super Nintendo first so I'm going to take one patch cable plug it into the video output of the Super Nintendo and plug it in the television video input I'm going to do the same with the audio connections audio left into the audio left of the television audio right of the patch pay into audio right of the television you can turn on your television then change the input on your television from HDMI or whatever it's set to - a v1 or the RCA input and voila there's your Super Nintendo so now it's very easy to change consoles at any time say you want to go from Super Nintendo to Nintendo 64 you just literally take the patch out plug it into the next one in the line and now I'm playing James Bond so that's it all your videogame consoles in one place easily accessible via your brand new video game patch Bay my name is Steven Beecham for CNET how-to and I'm gonna play some Mario oh yeah