PAL gamecubes on NTSC tvs

shortys94

do gamecubes here work on amerian tvs, i have an american tv and was thinking about buying a PAL gamecube but not sure if it would work on it, anyone know whether it would?

Retr0gamer

It depends if it is PAL compatible. Sony and Philips TVs should be compatible as will some other manufacturers. Any new decent TVs should have it although some cheap brands like Black Diamond probably won't. Basically you will have to look it up yourself. If your TV supports RGB scart then get a proper scart lead and it should work fine since RGB scart is a universal standard.

Kristok

afaik the game cube will be fine as will ps2 and xbox it all depends on if the game supports 60hz or not. Ive mario football and it says on the box it supports 50 and 60hz.

Retr0gamer

Kristok wrote:

afaik the game cube will be fine as will ps2 and xbox it all depends on if the game supports 60hz or not. Ive mario football and it says on the box it supports 50 and 60hz.

That actuall isn't true. Teh 60Hz on the Gamecube is acually PAL 60Hz. It runs at PALs higher Res but at 60Hz. The same with the Xbox. Unless the TV supports PAL 60Hz then you probably won't get a perfect picture. The PS2 60Hz mode is NTSC and will be fine on an American TV.

shortys94

yea thanks, its a daewoo, pretty old but for some reason i like it:)
i probably end up buying a new tv, but since i missed the gamecube deal i mightent bother getting it

Balfa

SCART RGB won't work, because American TVs don't have SCART. It's totally unheard of over here. They also don't have any real RGB connector, which sucks The best they have is YCbCr, which is more akin to S-video, though the quality is 99% as good as RGB.

I didn't think it would, but I brought my Freeloader and Irish Metroid Prime and Wind Waker with me, and PAL 60Hz for some reason works fine on my really crappy small old american TV which definitely doesn't have PAL support, so yours should be fine too. On non 60Hz games, you get scrolling crappy black and white picture.

edit: wait, never mind, this is a US gamecube, so although it seems capable of outputting whatever frequency it wants (50Hz when I don't hold down , it probably always outputs the lesser NTSC resolution, so scratch that. It probably won't work on your TV.

MontgomeryClift

The fact that it's a PAL Gamecube wouldn't matter, but you'd have to use US games and connect to the TV with S-Video. I think. The games cause incompatibility, not the hardware.