N64 Help!

Well today the N64 I got from eBay arrived, along with Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, 007 Golden Eye, Zelda:OoT, and Zelda:MM, but im having a problem, It came with the old Antenna connection rather than the one with the red white and yellow connectors, i have done a manual search and found it but the picture is black and white and really messed up and the sound is super bad, does anyone know of a way to make it playable or will i just have to spend even more on this and try and find a red, white and yellow connector?

Do you have a Gamecube? You can use the standard composite Gamecube leads as they use the same connector into the console (with the yellow, red & white plugs).stevencompton

RF provides a poor signal at best. Frankly it's in your own best interest to get a new cable. The SNES, N64 and Gamecube use the same AV-out on NTSC systems and there's no reason for the PAL units to be much different. It is odd that it is displaying in black and white, though. PAL systems will usually do that on NTSC televisions but that isn't the case. The new cord shouldn't be very expensive or hard to find. Hopefully the RF unit is just broken and new cables will fix your display problems.

I don't think the Wii uses the same AV-out from the pictures I could find online. I don't have a Wii so I can't verify it myself.

I would check Funcoland or Gamestops for the wires. It will make a difference and they shouldn't be too hard to find. The wires for the gamecube should be easy to find too. Good luck.

wii isnt gonn work ,only snes n64 gc work

I just want to point out something that I feel is too frequently overlooked.

If you are playing this on a high definition television, no matter what you do it will look like **** If you are going to play a Nintendo 64 console it is mandatory that you use a Standard Definition television.

I really wish I had known this before I switched to High Definition, I can't play like 3/4 of my games now.

If you are playing this on a high definition television, no matter what you do it will look like ****Fredrick2003x

RF looks like absolute hell on an LCD TV. Anything composite or above is acceptable though not necessarily pixel-perfect. You're either using sub-par cables or you're way more of a signal purist than I am. My N64 runs through S-Video and doesn't look awful... most games have miasmal fog but that's just programming. I just wish Jaguar AV cables weren't so hard to find. It's stuck on RF until I break down and order a decent cable from Ebay.

If your experience is totally ruined by picture quality either pick up a CRT-TV at a thrift store cheap or give them to someone less fussy. I have a CRT-TV myself but that's only because most older light guns won't function without the cathode tube. The only thing that looks markedly better on it is the 2600.