Nintendo 64
Nintendo’s 1996 cartridge holdout. The American N64 never put RGB on its back; this one does.
The Nintendo 64 reached North America in September 1996, the last major home console built around cartridges. Four controller ports on the front made it the multiplayer machine of its generation.
Its video is the catch. The American console sends composite and S-Video out of its multi-out and nothing else; RGB isn’t on the connector at all.
The RGB upgrade puts it there, so the N64 takes the same road to the monitors as the rest of the shelf: an RGB SCART cable into the switcher, a SCART to 4 BNC breakout out of it, and a Sony monitor at the end.
What it puts out, and how it gets to the glass
- Stock output
- Composite and S-Video
- Modification
- RGB upgrade
- Video out
- RGB over SCART
- Into the chain
- RGB SCART → switcher → breakout → PVM / BVM
- Controller ports
- Four, on the front
- Media
- Cartridge
Work log
What has been done to it.
- RGB upgrade installed — RGB brought out to the multi-out, where the American console never had it.
- Family
- Nintendo 64 — 64-bit, 1996 in North America
- Model
- NUS-001 — the one home model Nintendo made
- Status
- In service — Wired into the RGB chain.
The console mod table lists every machine’s path to the monitors, and The Signal Chain walks it box by box.