Modified N64 and Passport Problems

[Jordan Freeman]

Hey there, I was wondering if someone here could help me with a little problem I'm having with my N64.

I bought a modded Japanese N64 so I could play games in RGB video quality. The system plays US and JP games perfectly fine, but as many people are aware you need a Passport Plus III cartridge to play EU games on it. I have said cartridge, and can get certain games to work fine. Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie and Killer Instinct Gold all work. However, I am having problems getting Lylat Wars and Resident Evil 2 to work properly (both EU region carts). Resident Evil 2 won't start up at all, and Lylat Wars sound goes strange and the image gets cut at the bottom. I tried all the BOOT codes I could find online but none have worked.

Any help?

[moonwhistle]

Despite the claims of others even the passport 3 won't everything. During extensive testing I came across several games that wouldn't run using any code. The passport 3 does run the most games of any of the passports but oddly doesn't run a few that my old passport 1 did. I'm pretty positive that starfox will run with the right code though. It's a terribly designed converter due to the awful interface so if you get totally stuck with a certain game I'd just flog it and buy a cheap ntsc version, that's what I did. Sorry I can't be of more help.

[Jordan Freeman]

Despite the claims of others even the passport 3 won't everything. During extensive testing I came across several games that wouldn't run using any code. The passport 3 does run the most games of any of the passports but oddly doesn't run a few that my old passport 1 did. I'm pretty positive that starfox will run with the right code though. It's a terribly designed converter due to the awful interface so if you get totally stuck with a certain game I'd just flog it and buy a cheap ntsc version, that's what I did. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Yeah I guessed that. To be honest, I don't mind buying a NTSC version of Star Fox... but Resident Evil 2 cost me ?30 boxed as it's rare, and I really wanted to get it working. I see US carts going for ?10 though, so I'll probably just get that.

[charlesr]

It'll be less heartache in the end to just get rid of the PAL ones and the passport and replace. If you set up a search on ebay.com for "resident n64 complete" you'll find one eventually.

And.. Welcome to ntsc-uk.com