In another topic, Kreese wrote:
Why are we even bothering doing this mod? Well the NES2 doesn't work good with the RF on a PAL TV, the sound doesn't work at all. Well some sound come through while using the RF and fine tuning, but that quality is so bad so it's even better without it!
Could the problem be that we use a PAL TV? Seems strange when the same TV works with with the first version of NES (both American and European) and also the AV Famicom...
Could the problem be that we use a PAL TV? Seems strange when the same TV works with with the first version of NES (both American and European) and also the AV Famicom...
Well I just ran into the same problem. The toploader I just imported from the US have perfectly working video (contrary to all people complaining abou it being bad... it looks really much better than on my PAL NES the dot crawl is much less noticeable and the colors blend into others much better).
The sound however is not working, junk comes out of the speakers. The only exeption seems FF3 where I can hear vague correct sound that is out-louded by white noise and 60Hz junk. I am glad I am not the first one to run into that problem but... that don't explain what is the source of the problem. I tried it on both channel 3 and 4 and the same problem appears.
I don't know if I'm supposed to use the NTSC RF switch, but I opened it and it looked identical to PAL RF switches, only the connectors being different. The problem is the same whenever I use an RF switch or directly conntect NES to the TV; however with my PAL NES and SNES I have to use the switch (even if there is no other RF device) else there is noise on the picture (whch is weird). Maybe some resistors or capacitors have different values on NTSC and PAL switches, and this is what kills the thing ?
I really wish I could open the NES but I can't because of those f***ing secured screws which are bigger than those found on cartridges (which I can deal with no problem).
So it's nice to have a NTSC NES to test my programs on NTSC mode and to play actual games faster (hey it doesn't even have a CIC so almost all my PAL games works fine in it), but with no sound it kinda kills it...
PS : Another thing that surprised me with the NTSC NES was that there is undocumented BG color borders on left and right of the image, even when the BG left clipping is disabled. For example on the world map of FF3, there is green left and right borders. Those don't happen on a PAL NES nor on any emulator I've ever seen.