Help with PAL Amiga CD32

[Ninja_Dentist]

I recently bought a PAL Amiga CD32 on ebay and was so excited to find a good deal that I failed to consider the difficulties in using a European system in the US. I found a step-up power converter for pretty cheap, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding a cheap solution for converting the video output.

Anyone have any suggestions for a cheap PAL to NTSC converter or some sort of nifty trick to make it work with my TV?

[Ivo]

I recently bought a PAL Amiga CD32 on ebay and was so excited to find a good deal that I failed to consider the difficulties in using a European system in the US. I found a step-up power converter for pretty cheap, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding a cheap solution for converting the video output.

Anyone have any suggestions for a cheap PAL to NTSC converter or some sort of nifty trick to make it work with my TV?

I think you can access a menu in the CD32 which makes the console output in NTSC, but apparently that will only work for some games.

Have a look at this thread for some suggestions:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=39646

Good luck. If that doesn't work, I suggest altering the title of the thread to "need a PAL to NTSC converter" so that people with that knowledge (but that do not know about the CD32) notice the thread.

Ivo.

[Curlypaul]

Wiki:

Like all later Amiga computers, the CD32 has a hidden boot menu that can be accessed by plugging an Amiga mouse into port 2 and holding both buttons down while turning the system on. Most of the options in this menu are not useful on a CD32, but from this menu you can choose to boot in either NTSC or PAL mode. This is important, as there are some games that will refuse to work if the system is in the wrong mode, since most games don't advertise what video mode they were developed for. It should also be pointed out that despite the naming, the menu really only allows a choice of 60 Hz or 50 Hz video output; a PAL system booted in NTSC mode will still output a video signal using PAL color encoding, which will usually result in a black and white picture when connected to an NTSC television.