My GameCube is dead so I want to get one from eBay, but the seller is from UK and he says that UK GameCube supports only UK voltage. I'm from Croatia, and we have standard 2 pin european socket. Will a UK GameCube normally work with standard 2pin european plug or will my GameCube be burned? He is selling just a console without power brick and cables but I have my own brick with 2 pin european plug. Thanks.
That's one thing I do like about the Gamecube/N64... that the power supply is external so you can just swap em out for other region consoles.
Yup! So much better then with the NES/FC/SNES/SFC, they made a real spaghetti out of that. I've got a step-down converter and a US power hub (what do you call that in English?) where I connect various PAL consoles with NTSC power supplies Was kinda a challenge to find an US power hub over here, an US friend of mine sent it over :O
I know that a US Gamecube works with a PAL power supply, is it the same with PAL Gamecubes and a US psu?
The cube doesn't care what your native voltage is. The PSU handles all that and just gives the cube the voltage it needs.
UK voltage is ~5-9% higher than in most european countries, but that's about it. And all 220-230v devices will work in UK perfectly. Here we have opposite case - 240v -> 230v. Which means that primary circuit will heat 4% less I think we need to make it sticky that japanese equipment will work in US and vice versa, european will work everywhere in Europe (a shape adapter is required sometimes), you'll need a step-up transformer (100-110v to 220-230v) to run european equipment in US or Japan (and some asian or island countries too) and step-down (220-230 to 100-110) to run Japanese and US equipment in Europe (again, applies to some asian and island countries). Also most transformer PSUs are single voltage, and more than a half of switching PSUs will accept any voltage in 100-250v range). GC and Wii PSUs are single voltage, but again - any PAL GC PSU will work everywhere in Europe.
