Help with Korean N64 - What format is it?

[laserbeam273]

I've come across my old N64 and now want to spruce it up ready to sell. I was looking at games, then suddenly realised, what format is it? So it's a fully Korean N64, I think it's made in Korea and definitely has Korean writing all over it. I've uploaded the image of the specs on the back:

So does anyone know what format this will be? PAL, NTSC, or some other funny version?

 

[Nermal]

I think that it's possible to tell based on the shape of the cartridge slot.

 

[laserbeam273]

That's true for SNES, but can't find anything about that for N64. I just realised my N64 has some sort of cartridge adapter on it... maybe I just need to bite the bullet and buy a cheap N64 game.

 

[peskaa]

S Korea is definitely NTSC.

 

[-SD-]

Yeah, I'm almost certain this will be NTSC-J. Get a cheap Japanese Mario 64 cart to test it with. Or just get Starfox 64 'cos it's awesome, you should at least play through that before you sell it

Any chance you can post some pictures of the console itself please? I've seen Korean versions of most consoles, but I'm not sure I've seen their N64.

Edit: That adapter you have is just a simple pin extender to play US games, so I would say this is definitely a Japanese machine inside.

 

[Miharu]

I think all Korean Nintendo consoles are NTSC-J region-wise, except the Wii which is region encoded as NTSC-K and will only work with Korean Wii games, not even Korean Gamecube games! Though I think the Korean NES (Comboy) is an Asian version; PAL video, works with Hong Kong/Asian NES carts.

Edit: Seems I was wrong about the Korean NES (Hyundai Comboy as it's called there), it has it's own region encoding and it plays in NTSC video.