Title. I have this old mini tv and I think it'd be perfect for a famicom. I've only ever dealt with composite and component and I really don't want to mod my famicom, so what would be the easiest way to connect it? I know RF is a little fuzzier than AV, but I don't mind.
I've also found these two cables / dongles on ebay while searching for famicom rf stuff, are either of these important?
Links to products (if you have / can recommend any) would be greatly appreciated. I'm in Germany, so it'd be nice to have something that ships from nearby.
See this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1985023/im_having_trouble_getting_my_famicom_to_work_on/
It depends most likely you’ll need a signal converter. There’s a slim chance if that supports PAL60 it may also have support for NTSC though I wouldn’t know what the correct channel mappings would be
Looks like a PAL style RF port. Make sure the console is PAL format or it won’t work on this TV and neither will the RCA ports.
I mean... It'll be NTSC. It's a Famicom they are asking about.
there are official PAL Famicoms sold in Hong Kong iirc
Well damn. So is there just no way to get a famicom to work on this tv?
Is there at least a way to run a PAL NES at 60Hz so I don't end up in headache city?
Edit: I read that the latter isn't possible. Would an NTSC NES work? Or would that have the same Port issues as the Famicom?
Look up the user manual for your tv model. There is a good chance it supports ntsc 60hz on av input but probably no chance it'll work on the belling-lee connector
If the TV works with NTSC 60hz composite then you can use an NTSC NES, or get an av modded famicom
The later version Famicom is composite. It even uses the same cable as SNES, N64 and GameCube 🙂
Yes that also works. I only mentioned NTSC NES because op asked if it would work
an ntsc nes would work fine so long as your tv supports ntsc and 60 hz. also avoid the later top loading nes console as those are rf only (despite the fact the japanese counterpart was called the av famicom)
That looks like a PAL tv so you don’t need to mod a pal machine to run at 60hz (there actually is the rare PAL60 format for some computers and stuff used in Brazil I think in the 80s if I remember right) because that is a tv that wants a 50hz pal signal.
Neither a us NES not a famicom are PAL video format (different number of scan lines and color setup) nor are they 50hz video output. They are both ntsc 60hz machines. (Technically the famicom is ntsc-j but the differences don’t matter for the nes/famicom.)
PAL60 was fairly widely supported in hardware though not used much. It often tags along with NTSC support as the main barrier to implementing either of them is the frequency
PAL60 was in more widespread use later just before HDTVs came along
Yeah, what makes me think it might be supported is this looks like one of those garbage tier near portable TVs that were common in the early 2000s. That’s right in the time frame when PAL60 was most common