Picked up a $5 famiclone from china. It comes with the composite (?) white and yellow video cables. I plug it into my TV and I can see the games working but the image won't stop rolling. Any idea what the problem might be? I have loads of carts I want to test and photograph but can't. Is there something I can do if I open it up?
Could be, it's a chinese system and my TV is korean which I would imagine will be NTSC. Really want to get this working as I loaded up 'Sonic 5' and from what I can see its a very cool hack. My Megadrive and Super Famicom work fine on this TV too. Maybe china uses PAL?
instead of try to open it, keep it close but drive with your car (if you have one) few times over it. then purchase a Nintendo AV Famicon and enjoy the real deal.
In fact that's not that important when you're talking about clones, they use the standard of the country where it's gonna be sold. I have many PAL and NTSC clones and they are all from China. You can get a PAL to NTSC converter or a TV which works with PAL and NTSC (at least here every TV does), or the most intelligent idea: Like Tatsujin said, get a Famicom. Besides the quality, the game experience is way better.
I know what you mean, it's the reason why I got these clones in first place (less than 10 dollars for 18 units is not something you find everyday :drool.
The other reason I bought it was because a famicom or NES here in Korea is very expensive due to the rarity and I've bought so many pirate carts and I wanted to test them. Maybe my GF's TV is PAL, i'll check it out.
