I bought myself a real NES console recently. However, it is the brazillian version. I outputs PAL-M signal, the kind used by television here (although newer TV's will work with anything).
I'm not really into electronics, but I opened the thing and it has one extra board I have not seen in the pictures of open NES's on the net. This board has the year "1994" written on it. All the rest, however, seems to be from "1987". So it looks like Playtronic (the company that sold NES's here) took original NTSC consoles and put some kind of transcoder, to have the console output PAL-M.
Do you guys know anything about consoles adapted to work with other TV standards? I don't know if the board could just be removed. I'll try and take pictures so you can see exactly the connections this board has to the console. Some wires connected to it are soldered to the main board, under the cart slot, and I vaguely remember some colored wires on the other side.
Do you think maybe it is possible to turn this console back to outputing NTSC signal?
Maybe if you look at some pictures you could tell if/how the board can be removed.
I'm not really into electronics, but I opened the thing and it has one extra board I have not seen in the pictures of open NES's on the net. This board has the year "1994" written on it. All the rest, however, seems to be from "1987". So it looks like Playtronic (the company that sold NES's here) took original NTSC consoles and put some kind of transcoder, to have the console output PAL-M.
Do you guys know anything about consoles adapted to work with other TV standards? I don't know if the board could just be removed. I'll try and take pictures so you can see exactly the connections this board has to the console. Some wires connected to it are soldered to the main board, under the cart slot, and I vaguely remember some colored wires on the other side.
Do you think maybe it is possible to turn this console back to outputing NTSC signal?
Maybe if you look at some pictures you could tell if/how the board can be removed.