You need 4 pin tps. Gsr is 4 pin, evo 1-3 is 4 pin, rvr will be 4 pin. Only 1g had 3 pin, (and only 1g had the idle switch on the throttle stop on opposite side of tb)
The 1g testing is perfectly legit, it works for the 3pins and 4pins, the 4th pin is the idle switch. Without the switch, it will not idle nice, will not fuelcut on decel either.
Just quietly, do you have voltage to the tps? It sounds like you might not. (Not sure if its 5v or 12v)
Also, you can ohm meter test them from output to +ve, and just watch to see if its smooth and linear. But test back the other way also, from output to earth. They arent so much a variable resistor, more like a variable voltage divider. The results will be the inverse of output to +ve.