American NES Top Loader Japanese TV Problems

[Stumpy]

Hello everyone.  I currently live in Japan and had a US NES top loader sent to me.  I have a Japanese flat screen TV and I can't get my NES to work.  I have tried the US RF switch, a Japanese famicom RF switch and the VCR trick with a Japanese VCR to no avail.  Can someone offer any advice on how to get my NES to work?

[Pikkon]

Best bet would be to av mod it.

[Stumpy]

Thanks for the advice.  Is that difficult to do?  I don't have any soldering experience 

[MarioMania]

You have to pay someone to do it

What Cable Channel in Japan, Would the NES be on??

[Stumpy]

Fair enough.  About how much would the mod cost?

I have no idea.  My NES is the only console I currently have that uses RF.  I can try to find out for you though.

[UglyJoe]

What Cable Channel in Japan, Would the NES be on??

I'm pretty sure there's no overlap between US channels 3/4 and any channel in Japan's frequencies.

The VCR method would require a US VCR in this case.

[MasterDisk]

Yeah, you either need a US VCR or an AV mod.

[Stumpy]

It just so happens that I have an old VCR stateside!  Thanks for the help everyone.  I really appreciate it!

[NintendoKing]

US VCR method is the best method!

[MarioMania]

What Cable Channel in Japan, Would the NES be on??

I'm pretty sure there's no overlap between US channels 3/4 and any channel in Japan's frequencies.

The VCR method would require a US VCR in this case.

Like in the US it's Ch 95/96 to get the Famicom on TV

[UglyJoe]

Like in the US it's Ch 95/96 to get the Famicom on TV

I understood the question. I'm saying there is no overlap between US channels 3-4 and any Japanese channel. The frequencies used for US channels 3-4 fall under Japan's "radio control transmitter" spectrum. They do not fall anywhere within Japan's TV spectrum.

[tonev]

Yeah, you either need a US VCR or an AV mod.

No he needs a vcr that supports both ntsc and pal like my samsung one. It was the only way i could tune in to my famicom using rf .

[P]

He lives in Japan (NTSC country) and wants to use a US NES (NTSC system) so why would he need a VCR with PAL support? Are you in an NTSC country tonev?

[tonev]

No i am not in an NTSC country but we are not talking about the NTSC... he is using an RF connections and the channels are different in Japan than in the US. So  the best option is to AV mod it. My samsung crt supports both NTSC and PAL and i am very happy with it and it also has a zoom function that stretches out the pal signal so there are no black borders at the top and at the bottom. I can post some pictures if you want.

[lobdale]

The huge cost of mailing a US VCR from the states to Japan would be more than it'd cost to just get it professionally modded for AV output.  You could probably even go out and buy a Japanese AV Famicom and a cart converter for less.