u/TheWishingStar

I am trying to find the pieces I need to be able to hook my old N64 up to a tv or projector at an office. Today. Like I have about 7 hours if I want to make this work. Listed in the order I’d prefer to use them, we have access to a Smart Board, a basic projector, or a pretty new tv, all of which have HDMI, and the projector also has VGA and DVI. We could also use like a computer monitor if that’s the best option, though idk that it is.

I do not need it to be pretty or upscaled. I just need it to function and be available locally. I saw there’s a pinned post, but that seems to be a lot more complicated. I’m not looking to mod the thing, just get it to function well enough to play it for an hour or two.

Would this thing from GameStop do the job? https://www.gamestop.com/electronics/tvs-monitors/tv-accessories/products/gamestop-universal-rca-to-hdmi-converter/341544.html Or is there anything similar easily available at Walmart or BestBuy or something? I was gonna call GameStop, but they don’t open for another 2 hours apparently, so I was hoping it would be okay to ask here first. My other option is run to a thrift store and try to find a cheap older tv, which is feeling more and more viable…

Thank you!

(Yes, I should have looked into this sooner, but I didn’t really think about it bot being just plug-and-go until last night. I lead a Girl Scout troop and my middle schoolers are participating on a pilot program for a gaming badge that’s in development nationally. The conversations last week turned to vintage gaming and Legend of Zelda, and one of the requirements they’re trying involves playing a game you’ve never played before, so I told them we could bust out Ocarina of Time 😬 ).

I am not asking if this is fake. It is definitely fake.

However, I have seen people say this holo pattern is not able to be faked, so I wanted to share here, for anyone looking the card up in the future. Either to compare a fake holo pattern, or as something to watch for.

I think this may be a card that had the ink stripped off and then the fake printed onto it? I feel like the holo pattern actually looks okay, and the “D in the P” also looks pretty right? To me at least?

I’ve taken some comparison photos against two other Legendary Collection Reverse Holos I own - one is graded, so I’m confident it’s real (purple), and the other is from my childhood collection and not suspicious (yellow).

Curious if other people also think it may be a stripped card? Honestly, if it is I may strip it again myself. I think I’d rather have a blank card than a fake 😅

The photos of the Ps are not labeled, because I thought it may be more useful for people to not know which is which when looking at them? But here’s that info: >!Photos 5, 7, and lower half on 12 are the fake Charizard. 6 and 8 are the graded one, and 9 and the top one in 12 are the ungraded-but-presumably-real one.!<

If I want to hook up my N64 to a modern-ish tv/projector TODAY, is there an easy-to-get adaptor that would do the job, even if it’s not pretty?

This is for sure a fake. Curious if it’s printed on a real card though?