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Old 10-05-2003, 8:35 PM   #1
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N64 stuff

This is a bit of a stab in the dark......... is there anywhere to get old games and such online? Im actually looking for some method of getting an outup onto composite of svideo or component...... i cant put RF into my projector and i dont really want to spend much more than a few pounds to achieve it!

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Old 10-05-2003, 8:46 PM   #2
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No, you'll never get the games online.
You can buy a N64 composite cable but I've not seen one for ages. I should have a spare one but I can't seem to find it right now. You could have bought that from me.

Go into Dixons or somewhere and ask for a Gamecube composite cable and it will fit your N64 and give you a composite picture for your projector (N64 has the same connection at the console end as a GC)
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Old 10-05-2003, 10:04 PM   #3
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Thank you kindly, does the charm!

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Old 11-05-2003, 3:08 PM   #4
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Can we get better than composite?
I am now tempted to get goldeneye onto my projector.
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Old 11-05-2003, 3:09 PM   #5
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The best quailty you can get for the N64 is s-video.

Playing using an s-video cable on my PJ made a huge difference, sooo much clearer. Perfect Dark sounds great in DPL2 also!
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Old 13-05-2003, 2:49 AM   #6
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For new and pre-owned N64 games:

http://www.chipsworld.co.uk/matchprn...p?ProductName=

I have bought plenty over the years from these guys, as they are local to me.

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Old 13-05-2003, 4:30 AM   #7
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The best quailty you can get for the N64 is s-video.

Playing using an s-video cable on my PJ made a huge difference, sooo much clearer. Perfect Dark sounds great in DPL2 also!
I had a US N64, still do in a box upstairs, but my point is it was modified to output RGB via scart and it was so much clearer than anything else (even s-video). These days I could even connect the RGB scart to RGB2YUV and display it on my plasma; perhaps I should dig it out again?

But anyway, if I recall correctly you could do this with US N64 but not UK ones; and you may be able to find somewhere on the web telling you how to do this.

Also someone who posts on this board advertises the fact that he does RGB convertions to N64s, can't recall whom at the moment though.

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Old 14-05-2003, 1:42 AM   #8
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you can only RGB the ntsc N64's and not even them on the later batches.

it is a dead easy mod to do but you need to link a 2 points on the board as well to get a decent output as it is quite dull if not, and then you may want to put a resistor on the link if the whites bloom on your display.

having said all that, and I got torn to pieces on the ntsc-uk forums for saying this, see if you are happy with s-video, I used to do hundreds of these back in the day and a few customers said that they got better results using an official s-video cable.

on my philips there is little in it.

if you need a pic i can send you one.

hope that helps.

Groundy will mod your ntsc machine for you I believe.
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