N64 Weird problem...won't play Mario 64 and...

[serge85]

Hello guys, Recently I acquired a Gold N64...beautiful and all that, But I found a problem when trying to play Mario 64...after the initial "It's a me Mario!" the game goes to a black screen and that's that, It doesn't Load the mario face, etc... I tried a japanese version and again, the seame problem.

So, I began to try other games, Mario Kart 64, Mystical Ninja, Mario Party, Doom, Kirby...they all worked well, And then I tried Indiana Jones and the infernal machine, and this is what I get:

The pins are clean, and the games ( both mario 64 and indiana jones) works perfect in other N64.

Anyone knows what could be the cause or the root of the problem?

Thanks!

[Ziggy]

The picture that you posted... What kind of TV is that? CRT, LCD/LED, Plasma? And what type of connection are you using for the N64 (ie: RF, composite, S-Video, etc).

Try it on another TV, preferably a CRT. Try it on as many different TVs as you can.

If you don't have any other TVs to try it out on, and you're using an HDTV, then try this: Put the TV on a different input. Turn on Mario 64 and blindly load File A (it shouldn't be hard, just keep pressing start then A, the hand cursor automatically loads hovering over the File A if I recall correctly). Once you think you have loaded the file, switch the TV to the input the N64 is plugged in to and see if you get a picture.