Commodore 64 TV game black & white display prob

[JazzFunk]

I just got one of them 30 game Commodore 64 TV plug-in things for ?3.99. Now, when I hook it up to my TV, the display is in black and white and I don't know how to get it to display in colour. I have one of those Argos scart blocks, and my TV is OK with RGB and AV so I don't know why this is happening.

Can anyone help with this?!

[Mayhem]

What's the list of games on it? I've got a funny feeling you might have been sold an NTSC unit somehow and your TV can't handle it.

[JazzFunk]

I think it's the UK one, because it's got Hewson and Imageworks games on it - Uridium, Speedball etc. - and the shop I bought it from is quite a big chain (Home Bargains.) My TV could handle NTSC Jap and American games on a chipped PS1 through RGB, and handles 60HZ DC/PS2/XBox stuff no probs so I'm puzzled.

I think the TV lead on the C64 thing is composite - one white plug, one yellow. My TV is relatively recent (7 years old) so should be able to handle composite if it can handle RGB (????!)

[tom-nook]

http://ntsc-uk.domino.org/showthread...ght=import+faq

Sounds like your tv can display a 60hz image but doesn't support ntsc video. This isn't an issue when displaying stuff through rgb scart but other inputs (such as composite) will result in a black & white image. Not uncommon for a tv's of that kind of age.

I think you may have been sold an ntsc unit as Mayhem suggests as the US version also contains Uridium & Speedball: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index...#prod_prodinfo

[JazzFunk]

I think you may have been sold an ntsc unit as Mayhem suggests as the US version also contains Uridium & Speedball: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index...#prod_prodinfo

Thanks for the advice. The gamelist on that link is the same as the one I've got, so I must have the US version (wonder what's on the UK one...)

My TV is weird - it would allow me to play the PAL PS2 God Of War (which is not 60hz) in RGB, but when RGB was switched off, so I could flick between my PS2 and the TV, the screen was in black and white. Bizarre.

[Mayhem]

If you're interested in selling it btw, I'd take it off your hands

[Yoshimax]

Only thing I'd say is my son had one of them Spiderman TV games and it would occasionally boot in B&W and sometimes in Colour so repeatedly switching it off & on again might produce some results !!!

But yeah sounds like it's NTSC !

[JazzFunk]

If you're interested in selling it btw, I'd take it off your hands

I'm getting a new telly soon, so I'll probably hang onto it. But if you've got a Home Bargains store near you (though some stores aren't called 'Home Bargains', but have the same Red/White/Turquoise shop front) then they've got a batch of the things in at ?3.99.

Basically, they sell everything cheap - household stuff, food, medicines, deodorants, toys, booze (it's a great place for booze!)

Only thing I'd say is my son had one of them Spiderman TV games and it would occasionally boot in B&W and sometimes in Colour so repeatedly switching it off & on again might produce some results !!!

But yeah sounds like it's NTSC !

I have that with those NES Superjoy things, sometimes they go all wobbly, sometimes black and white, sometimes as clear as a whistle.