nintendo-64
I purchased an N64 about 19 years ago in South America and I've got about 20 games that worked on it before.
I now live in Europe (France) and would like to get my console working but I haven't figured out how.
Note that i purchased new RCA cables for it since I lost the original ones and I also purchased an RCA to HDMI converter but all I get when I turn the console on is a blue screen.
Thanks in advance for your help
As far as I know, the controllers are identical, I'm fairly sure the controllers themselves are not going to have any region-specific differences.
Component (5 cables- Red Green Blue /Red(sometimes white with red stripe) White) and Composite (Yellow Red White) are not compatible. Radio Shack people are famous for not having a clue but pretending to. You may get a signal on some devices, but it likely wouldn't be a usable one.
For Composite, the Red and White are left and right audio (stereo), and the yellow is video. For Component, the red and white (again, the red and white are usually labelled/patterned differently to denote they are audio) are the left/right audio, and the red/green/blue are the three color channels for video. IF you plugged in green, and got a signal, you'd only be getting the green color channel, which I would think would be unplayable. You can get component->composite converters, or you can get a composite cable directly. For reference, RCA is the same as composite (red/white/yellow).
Below is an example of what I mean for the component cable that differentiates the red(audio) from the red(video). Note the difference in color pattern for the two reds.
Best Answer
The N64 could output 3 different video formats
PAL-M except for the name is actually closer in specification to NTSC PAL-M Wikipedia. There were other differences between the countries so region compatibility is complicated. The console and games will probably work better together (compared to European Console and South American games).
It also appears that your RCA to HDMI converter may be the reason for the Blue screen. GameFaqs Forum
The remaining question is how to play the games.
From my research (not experience) I suggest the following:
It will either :