N64 questions

[ZenLogikos]

What? I don't know of many other hardware stores, and that's where the guide you posted told me to try. Local hardware stores.

Yeah, I reread that section. I apologize as I glossed over their recommendation there. They made that suggestion offhand. Definitely try online. I would recommend playasia. That hardware store suggestion was a bad idea in the first place.

[Ack]

It's cool man. I looked up the tool last night on playasia(put it into a search engine, and they came up), and they've got some for sale. I'll probably pick it up from them.

[Ziggy]

Just get it off eBay, there's a million of them on there and they're like $5 each.

[Niode]

Pen-trick FTW!

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 891#p68891

Excuse the spelling errors in it. I was extremely tired when I wrote that up.

[RCBH928]

I wouldn't go so far,
I wanted to play PAL's on NTSC system, First I broke the sides of 2 cartridges I had to lay, and it went on fine. But later on i decided to break the plastic blocks in the system.

Once I did at some electronic store, I tested the PAL games, yet they won't work. Amazingly I got a PAL nintendo from a friend and they worked. So its not an issue of fitting the cartridge only, I think there is more to it.

[Niode]

You can't play PAL games on an NTSC system by just plugging them in. You need a passport (an action replay like device that fools the N64 into thinking it has an NTSC game inserted.)

So modifying your NTSC N64 to play PAL games is completely pointless as it can't play them anyway. (I think it's that the pins on the cartridges don't match up physically so the N64 physically cannot play the game).