I have a Nintendo 64 bought in South America and want to play it in Europe

I purchased an N64 about 19 years ago in South America and I've got about 20 games that worked on it before.

I now live in Europe (France) and would like to get my console working but I haven't figured out how.

Note that i purchased new RCA cables for it since I lost the original ones and I also purchased an RCA to HDMI converter but all I get when I turn the console on is a blue screen.

Thanks in advance for your help

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Are Nintendo 64 consoles region locked?

The Nintendo 64 has a region lockout chip which prevents NTSC (Japanese and US) games from running on a PAL (European) machine. However, through the use of third-party devices, most games should work.

How can I make my Nintendo 64 region free?

The biggest difference is American consoles use the NTSC video standard and the European console is designed for PAL. I'm a little surprised that Zelda worked at all, but not surprised that there were issues with the picture. You need a European N64.

Can a US N64 play European games?

On Nintendo 64, the shape of the back part of cartridge and the shape of inside game slot is different. However, actual console mechanics is the same. Simply all you need to do is either to change the back part of the game cartridge (soft mod) or to remove game slot's plastic region restriction tabs (hard mod).

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