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Zegita
Kai Beginner
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 63
Location: Denmark
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:12 am |
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MRKamikaze
Kai Enthusiast
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
Posts: 240
Location: USA - Mississippi
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:37 am |
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PAL
(1) Short for Phase Alternating Line, the dominant television
standard in Europe. The United States uses a different standard,
NTSC. Whereas NTSC delivers 525 lines of resolution at 60
half-frames per second, PAL delivers 625 lines at 50 half-frames
per second. Many video adapters that enable computer monitors
to be used as television screens support both NTSC and PAL signals.
NTSC
Short for National Television System Committee. The NTSC is
responsible for setting television and video standards in the
United States (in Europe and the rest of the world, the
dominant television standards are PAL and SECAM). The NTSC
standard for television defines a composite video signal with
a refresh rate of 60 half-frames (interlaced) per second.
Each frame contains 525 lines and can contain 16 million different
colors.
The NTSC standard is incompatible with most computer
video standards, which generally use RGB video signals.
However, you can insert special video adapters into
your computer that convert NTSC signals into computer
video signals and vice versa.
deffinitions taken from webopedia.com |
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Zegita
Kai Beginner
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 63
Location: Denmark
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:47 am |
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NTSC games diferrent than PAL games? or is it just the res. thats diferrent? |
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dfunked
Team XLink Administrator
Joined: 25 Apr 2004
Posts: 7005
Location: Australia - VIC
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:11 pm |
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They run at different frequencies so if we're going to connect the 2 versions together, the game must be able to synchronise them properly.
You can find a good post about this on Bungie's forums (Halo was incompatible with NTSC-PAL). |
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Zegita
Kai Beginner
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 63
Location: Denmark
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:53 pm |
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ok... so, is NTSC best or PAL? |
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boxo-XR
Kai Enthusiast
Joined: 23 May 2004
Posts: 286
Location: USA - Wisconsin
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:17 pm |
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There is no "best". They are just different. Gameplay is the same. |
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ViErRi
Kai Enthusiast
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 274
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:22 pm |
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yep but NTSC games release before PAL games |
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Dolfhin
Kai Regular
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 176
Location: Netherlands
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:00 pm |
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Zegita @ Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:53 pm wrote: |
ok... so, is NTSC best or PAL? |
It's not that you are going to see a difference but PAL has a beter way to transport colors and will give you beter colors and a higher resolution but then again, it's not likely that you will see a difference. |
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boxo-XR
Kai Enthusiast
Joined: 23 May 2004
Posts: 286
Location: USA - Wisconsin
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:58 pm |
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ViErRi @ Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:22 pm wrote: |
yep but NTSC games release before PAL games |
Wrong. If you need examples, I'll get you some.
One being Splinter Cell: Pandora Tommorrow.
Two being Halo2
3 being: Neighbors from Hell
4 being Leisure Suit Larry
5 Worms
6 Constantine |
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ViErRi
Kai Enthusiast
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 274
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Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:37 am |
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yes you have right but mostly are NTSC games earlier |
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dfunked
Team XLink Administrator
Joined: 25 Apr 2004
Posts: 7005
Location: Australia - VIC
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Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:05 am |
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NTSC games can't be "better" than PAL. Games are generally released in USA or Japan first, and it just so happens that their video mode is NTSC. UK, Aus, Europe use PAL, and everyone knows those countries get their games a little later than everywhere else. |
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-[AKZ]-vh_202
Kai Regular
Joined: 02 Aug 2004
Posts: 78
Location: Australia - SA
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Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:00 am |
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in respect to which one is better in terms of equipment such as a TV. if you get a high quality tv then the odds are you wont be able to tell the difference. some tvs support both standards. my tv seems to have no problem running both pal and ntsc games |
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Zegita
Kai Beginner
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 63
Location: Denmark
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Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:48 pm |
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can i use NTSC saves in a PAL game? or PAL saves in a NTSC game? |
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dfunked
Team XLink Administrator
Joined: 25 Apr 2004
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Location: Australia - VIC
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Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:32 am |
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Depends on the game. Some yes, some no. |
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