LCD flickering with N64

[NinjaJoey23]

I wasn't sure where to put this, but since it involves one of my classic systems, here we are.

I just got a Polaroid FLM-1911 lcd television for my room. For being an lcd, composite looks pretty darn good on it. I was playing some Super Metroid today via SNES. Then, when I tried to let my girlfriend hook up the 64, the game started flickering. The actual display of the game seemed fine, but the screen kept sort of flickering a bright white light over and over again.

As I've said, this is only with the N64 in composite. I've hooked up a Wii, 360, SNES, and DVD player via composite (and the 360 via component) and they all worked fine. The television is brand new, so I don't think the problem is there. Is the output of the 64 somehow different? This is not a major problem, as this television won't be used mainly for playing the classics, but I was just wondering if any of the resident video experts knew anything.

I'll def. be trading up to s-video soon.

[Vectorman0]

Moved to the tech forum, with redirect for your convenience.

[NinjaJoey23]

Bump, as I still need an answer.

[NinjaJoey23]

blah bump

need answer....

plz

[SkiDragon]

I dont really have an answer, but perhaps you should try an s-video cable.

[davidleeroth]

Does the LCD have different contrast settings or view modes like movie, natural, dynamic etc.? Try switching between these, some of them adjust the brightness automatically which I've heard might cause problems with some signals.

[RugalSizzler]

Flat screens are not real tvs. They are display panels that is no diffrent then the one your gba or gameboy use. The ability to build them at such scales have become cheaper so they just built them with tv outputs and some have wave tuners like a regular tv while other get data no diffrent then your cell phone.

A real tv is just a monitor without the VGA. The problem you might be having is the fact that the screen use an alternative method of displaying the picture unlike a regular tv.

The N64 has RGB support but was never finished built in. This is why your N64 might be having problems. As with the PS2 some games have such support where they take advantage of RGB or the Pi system ( which I am not familiar with ) so they might act abnormally when using such screens.

[MichaeltheGreat]

I had the same issue with 16:10 widescreen monitor that I was using also. Basically you won't have problems with 16:9 widescreen, but 16:10 can cause flickering issues. I found that I didn't have problems with analog inputs like svideo.