European CD32 in USA? Fire or Explosion?

[save2600]

You cannot simply plug a euro power cable into our outlets here. Physically impossible. Plus, it wouldn't matter. They step down 220v - we only step down 110v. Real problem would be plugging an American power supply into a European outlet. Get a North American power supply for the CD32 and a compatible monitor/TV to play with the PAL chipset. Our standard is NTSC. If you purchase a PAL CD32, you can try to force it into NTSC by plugging an Amiga mouse in and holding down both buttons upon startup and selecting the screen mode.

Using it with a PAL compatible Amiga monitor or TV would be your best bet though. Many of the games in circulation are going to be PAL anyway...

[save2600]

An adapter to step up 110v to work with a 220v power supply is NOT recommended though. Easier to simply purchase or make your own power supply for use with our current. There are ATX<>CD32 adapters if you happen to have a PeeCee power supply laying around and didn't care that you had a bastardised kind of set up too.

[save2600]

Yup!