Can you play a Japanese N64 Game on a European console?
Back in Europe I have a N64 console. As I am currently living in Japan, I find myself tempted to buy some old N64 games in Japanese. However, the articles about the N64's region locking usually assume Japanese games on an American console...
My question thus is: Can you play a Japanese N64 Game on a European console?
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The japanese and USA machines are basically the same NTSC machines, and you can play both games on both consoles after breaking the plastic tabs inside the machine.
But the european N64 is a different machine, it is PAL. You need a converter to play other games. And the japanese and americans need a converter to play european games on their consoles.
But when looking at converters for N64 it looks like most of them don't work for most games, and recomandation is to buy a used Japanese/US N64 since they can be found rather cheap.
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Can my N64 play Japanese games?
The Nintendo 64 comes with a region lock chip which restricts US and Japanese (NTSC) games from playing on a European (PAL) machine. There is a difference between PAL and NTSC regions because their frame rate is very different and this will mess up the display if played on the wrong console.Are Nintendo 64 games region locked?
Can it play Japanese N64 games? The NTSC N64 has a pair of physical tabs that physically prevent the NTSC-J (Japanese) games from seating in the cartridge slot. Its a relatively straightforward process to disassemble the N64 to get to the plastic bottom piece of the cartridge slot and file off the tabs.Using a Japanese N64 in the UK | IMNC
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