I have just purchased a boxed Famicom from Japan. A rather nice and very white one for under $100, along with a couple of games: Hoshi no Kirby and Spelunker.

This will be my first classic console and my first attempt at modding. What I plan to do is an AV mod so I can bypass the Japanese RF output and feed the Famicom’s native NTSC composite signal directly into a television.

Many PAL-region TVs can display NTSC over composite, but the modification itself does not convert the console to PAL.

I will be documenting my progress as best I can and hopefully come up with a definitive method for doing this type of mod. After some research I have found many different approaches to Famicom AV modifications, mostly from people in NTSC regions.

I’m looking forward to having some fun with this and sharing my experiences with classic Nintendo consoles and modding.

Originally posted by Nick many eons ago.

Sources