Best way to be a PAL?
I'm really curious if anyone else has done this. Anyone have any suggestions for the best/easiest way to go about this? Things I'm considering:
1) TV - price/cost/regions - I understand there are a couple different PAL signals somehow, like there's PAL, there's SECAM, and some other ones. Would I need a separate TV/system setup for all of these, or is there a "catch-all" tv that can handle everything?
2) Power conversion - If I'm not mistaken, plug types differ from the US prong arrangement. Are there differences in the power, too, where I'd need a converter?
3) Systems - Can I use just 1 PAL NES for games from every region (UK, HOL, SCN, AUS), or would I need one for each region. Correlates with the first question, I guess.
4) Hookups - Standard RF and AV hookups, or are the cables different, too?
1) TV - price/cost/regions - I understand there are a couple different PAL signals somehow, like there's PAL, there's SECAM, and some other ones. Would I need a separate TV/system setup for all of these, or is there a "catch-all" tv that can handle everything?
2) Power conversion - If I'm not mistaken, plug types differ from the US prong arrangement. Are there differences in the power, too, where I'd need a converter?
3) Systems - Can I use just 1 PAL NES for games from every region (UK, HOL, SCN, AUS), or would I need one for each region. Correlates with the first question, I guess.
4) Hookups - Standard RF and AV hookups, or are the cables different, too?
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2) PAL territory usually has 230V in the power outlet, so you'd need a converter for that.
3) You need a modded NES to play all PAL regions, it can be done by the basic way of cutting the 4th leg of the certain component on the motherboard. I'm not entirely sure, but PAL-B regions can be covered with one console and you'd need another for PAL-A (italy, australia and england)
4) Standard RF/AV should work as far as I know
I'm really curious if anyone else has done this. Anyone have any suggestions for the best/easiest way to go about this? Things I'm considering:
1) TV - price/cost/regions - I understand there are a couple different PAL signals somehow, like there's PAL, there's SECAM, and some other ones. Would I need a separate TV/system setup for all of these, or is there a "catch-all" tv that can handle everything?
2) Power conversion - If I'm not mistaken, plug types differ from the US prong arrangement. Are there differences in the power, too, where I'd need a converter?
3) Systems - Can I use just 1 PAL NES for games from every region (UK, HOL, SCN, AUS), or would I need one for each region. Correlates with the first question, I guess.
4) Hookups - Standard RF and AV hookups, or are the cables different, too?
1.) New TV's should be able to handle any TV signal, might it be NTSC, PAL, SECAM or else.
2.) You can use any AC/AC adapter that outputs 9V and ~1A.
3.) There were two versions of the NES released: Mattel distributed the NES in PAL-A regions (ITA, UKV, AUS), while Nintendo themselves distributed the NES in other states (NOE, FRA, FRG, ESP, SCN, etc.) Both have different lockout mechanics so you'll need to mod your PAL NES in order to get the different PAL-format to work. The games however will play fine.
4.) They are the same. The FRA version however has a different plug for SECAM TV's iirc. But that won't affect you anyway.
Wow! I had no idea! Anyone with any dirt cheap common PAL games they wanna get rid of?
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The output on the PAL adapter was the same as the US adapter (AC9V, 1.3A) but the US adapter's plug that goes into the NES was slightly larger than the Spanish version's plug. I spliced two adapters together and accomplished what I needed to. More details...
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=21985&keyword1=pal power supply
There may be a better way to accomplish this, but this fixed my power supply issue without requiring me to buy anything else.
cant you just break the 4th pin of the lockout chip on the motherboard so you can play any region games done it to mine works a treat
We already know that. But nesguy wants to buy a PAL NES because PAL games play too fast on his NTSC NES (and some PAL games are malfunctioning on NTSC).