PAL Television shows black and white for NTSC games!

[buster_broon]

even having a scart sometimes doesnt help

My 1st foray into Import gaming was with the N64 and mario was in colour but the screen was fecked - like it was always degaussing

on some of the levels it was in black and white

on my mums tv it looked like the vertical hold had gone and you could see nothing

glad tv's in the uk have came on leaps and bounds wrt to import machines

[sj33]

even having a scart sometimes doesnt help

My 1st foray into Import gaming was with the N64 and mario was in colour but the screen was fecked - like it was always degaussing

on some of the levels it was in black and white

on my mums tv it looked like the vertical hold had gone and you could see nothing

glad tv's in the uk have came on leaps and bounds wrt to import machines

Well the point of using Scart to get around it is because it send the colour as RGB instead of PAL or NTSC, making it irrelevent if your TV does not accept NTSC colour encoding. Since the N64 does not have RGB output without modification, it would just output as Composite NTSC, which is sometimes black and white on incompatible TV's, but can sometime give more bizzare results (like yours).

[gIzzE]

Or if you had one of the RGB cables that had a black box inbetween you got that horrible effect as it was converting to RGB from S-video and doing it very badly!!