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2262703 No.2262703 [Reply] [Original]

I want to buy a Famcom.
I am from Australia and the Voltage Output is 240V. Therefore I need to buy a Japanese Plug and make sure it steps down the voltage to 110V

I heard from an American that for channel 1. the tv will need to be on channel 95. Is this correct ?

In addition is there any other problems I will encounter ?

>> No.2262719

American here. You don't need a 110v. 120v would work. Think those step downs are easier to find and generally higher quality for you guys.

>> No.2262720

>>2262703
Question, why do you want to get a famicom? Wouldn't it be easier to get a 60-72 pin adapter?

>> No.2262740

OP Here:

Well, I never had a NES as a kid. I had a sega mega drive. I found that online it's cheaper to buy a famicom complete compared to a NES. Also a mate gave me a famicom everdrive. It's hard and expensive trying to collect all the big titles in Australia. Everything is so overpriced.

>> No.2262746

>>2262719
Thanks Mate.

>> No.2262750

>>2262746
I use 120v on all my Jap stuff in America so. I know a lot of the Euros do the same.

As for the channel idk. Always composite or RGB mod.

>> No.2262801

>>2262720
Collectors generally tend to, you know, collect things

>> No.2262810

Channel 95 is for a Japanese console on an American TV. Australian TVs might use completely different frequencies and there's a chance it may not work at all.

You can always AV mod it and not worry about any of that crap.

>> No.2263330

>>2262703
There are a lot of options.
For power you'll always do best to get a AC-DC adapter designed to for your local power system. Pissing around with transformers is retarded for a DC system
For video you can opt for a screen that can display an NTSC signal with a receiver that can tun in on 91.25/97.25. You can AV mod your Famicom and use any NTSC TV. You can go with a PAL Famicom and either AV mod it or not and use it on a PAL TV.

>> No.2263436

>>2262703
>>2263330

Yeah just do what this guy suggests OP. Any SMS/MD1 power supply will power a famicom (or superfam) fine. if not just type centre negative 9v into ebay to find one. Don't bother with a step down. Should be easy to at least composite mod your system or even RGB mod it.

>> No.2263464

>>2263436
Thanks everyone

>> No.2263640

>>2262703
>channel 95
just to be clear, "channel" is not the number you press on the tv remote after tuning to select a station. a channel number is a reference to a particular radio frequency band and those frequencies differ around the world.

japan channel 1 video = 90MHz
usa [cable tv] channel 95 video = 90MHz

australian tv never had 90MHz so dont expect to be able to tune into it. also the gap between video and audio is wider on pal than ntsc so tuning into the audio is another problem

>> No.2264027

>>2263640

Well hopefully he's already acquired an NTSC TV, as trying to output NTSC to PAL has bigger problems than what the channel layout is in JP.

>> No.2264054

>>2262703
Aussie here, as others have already said use a Megadrive model 1 power supply or equivalent

as for using RF you should be able tune into it using a NES RF adapter but how well that is depends on your TV, with my Pc Engine (White model) and Super Famicom i was able to get a black and white image with interference from radio coming in on the audio on my CRT. with my shitty hdtv i was able to tune in fine (still looked terrible tho, i would recommend a AV mod or get an AV Famicom).

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2264173

>>2263640
>japan channel 1 video = 90MHz
no
>usa [cable tv] channel 95 video = 90MHz
no

>> No.2264182

does the famicom have no AV out you can use instead?

>> No.2264340

>>2264182
its RF only

>> No.2267138

>>2264027
There probably hasn't been a PAL TV made in the last 20 years that doesn't do 60hz. Why do yanks keep thinking that this is a thing? Unless OP's TV has a wood finish he ain't gonna have problems with NTSC.

>> No.2267151

>>2267138

PAL60 != NTSC.

Running at 60Hz doesn't magically give you the correct encoding.

>> No.2267153

>>2267151
Not OP, just a curious American anon.
I know NTSC TVs just don't support PAL shit at all. What happens when you have a PAL TV and feed it a NTSC signal?

>> No.2267186

>>2267153
From my experience most of our tvs dont accept ntsc through the RF socket ,but most of them will output ntsc through composite/rgb scart socket.

>> No.2267207

>>2262720
Not OP, but if I am going to invest in games for a system, I might as well own said system to play the games on.

That's like asking why you don't just buy a Retron to cover everything.

>> No.2267880

>>2267151
The correct encoding is brought to you by the same engineers that brought you the 60 hz.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. And since you can't into science that was mass produced for consumer use decades ago you may as well call it magic.

>>2267186
If his TV is just NTSC playback on PAL he can use a NTSC tuner that outputs composite.

>> No.2269582

>>2267153
Most PAL TVs made since the mid-late '90s will take NTSC perfectly fine and in full screen, but some of the older ones display NTSC in black/white. Even if you use one of those TVs you can still get color on most consoles by using RGB through SCART since RGB bypasses any encoding.