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Topic: Nintendo 64 resets after a while (using American N64 in Europe)

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DisasterLink

I live in Europe and I have imported an American NTSC Nintendo 64. I tried setting it up today with a volt converter (230V to 110V converter) and it boots up just fine without any problems.

First time I booted it up the game however reset after 10 minutes of gameplay. But when it had reset it wouldn't get back into the game. Instead it would freeze on this black screen with faint vertical lines.

So I then turned the console off and on again and I was able to play for around 40 minutes without any problems. I thought that it was just a one time problem and turned off the console.

Later when I decided to play again the same thing happened. Started resetting itself again after 10 minutes of gameplay.

So I'm figuring that something is wrong here. Could it be the volt converter? It says the output is 110V but the Nintendo 64 power supply writes at the bottom that its input is 120V. I didn't think that the 10V difference would make any difference but now I'm not sure?

What are my options here? What could possibly be wrong? I tried to check the reset button as well but it isn't sticky or anything.

DisasterLink

theblackdragon

that 10V difference is enough to make clocks run funny, so perhaps there's a chance it's not getting enough juice at a critical point in time. is it possible for you to find a 120V converter to try? borrow one from a friend or something?

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Chris720

Your best bet is to buy a transformer so it can step the volts down, if you want to know what one looks like, it's that black box on your laptop's charging lead. They shouldn't be any more than £20.

But if you want, try looking for a switch on the back of your TV that changes it from 50hz to 60hz and see if that makes any difference, as I'm sure American TVs work on a different hertz because of that 240v coursing through the system. It apparently also acts as a transformer of sorts, but I haven't tried it yet.

Alternatively... buy a European N64.

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Mk_II

You dont need a step-down converter. Just use a UK N64 power supply - you know, the bit that clicks into the back - and you are done.

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KingMike

Demonic wrote:

Alternatively... buy a European N64.

Could work, if the games he wants are available in PAL.
PAL consoles use different lockout chips than NTSC consoles. I'd be surprised if there were NTSC/PAL converters, because multiple lockout chips were made (in both NTSC and PAL variations) as an anti-piracy measure. I've read that a game will not boot with a lockout chip mismatch (defeating the typical SNES converter method)

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Mk_II

there are converters but they all suffer from the same problem: they only work with the games that were released before the converter AND you have to match the lockout chip revision in both carts. Conclusion: if you want to play games from region A, get a region A console. They're cheap and abundant.

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