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Gil_Hamilton wrote:
Squall_Leonhart wrote:Yup, imo, reading up on the formats, PAL is a better format anyway, especially regarding colours.
NTSC's color issues are only applicable to broadcast. Not wired settings.

And NTSC has a better range of colors and brightnesses that can be reproduced. That's what makes me give it the nod instead of the higher-resolution PAL.
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I also tend to prefer 60Hz over 50Hz.
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FirebrandX wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:
Squall_Leonhart wrote:Yup, imo, reading up on the formats, PAL is a better format anyway, especially regarding colours.
NTSC's color issues are only applicable to broadcast. Not wired settings.

And NTSC has a better range of colors and brightnesses that can be reproduced. That's what makes me give it the nod instead of the higher-resolution PAL.
/agree

I also tend to prefer 60Hz over 50Hz.
Me too.
But there's also 60Hz PAL and 50Hz NTSC. Not just "in theory" but in actual broadcast use.

50Hz NTSC strikes me as supremely strange, but it exists.
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While its true those formats exist, they are not really the norm. I was speaking from a practical standpoint of how home video games have been played for the past few decades.
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Do PAL ps2 games allow you to run in 50 and 60hz PAL or 50hz PAL and 60hz NTSC?
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Post by Squall_Leonhart »

yeah, some do, same with some games on GCN.
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Technically, PAL and NTSC are standards for encoding color into a composite video signal, not specifications of the field/frame rate.
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blargg wrote:Technically, PAL and NTSC are standards for encoding color into a composite video signal, not specifications of the field/frame rate.
This is true, over time the less informed people have accustomed the 50/60hz difference to PAL and NTSC though, that belief is slowly passing.
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franpa wrote:Do PAL ps2 games allow you to run in 50 and 60hz PAL or 50hz PAL and 60hz NTSC?
Technically it's PAL50 / PAL60, when there's an option.

To elaborate on QL's rather vague "some"...
Most PS2 games are still stuck in PAL50. Only a handful (compared to the total amount) proposes PAL60, and as already mentionned a very tiny few even proposed progressive scan.
On the other hand a large part of GCN games were able to pull both 50/60 (no progressive, though), with only a small library of PAL50-only halfassed versions. Several games are even stuck in PAL60, which is better anyway (and only TVs as old as some of us here can't pull it).
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Got any examples? I've never seen a PS2 game do PAL60. The few I own that have a 60hz option output NTSC when using it.
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Squall_Leonhart wrote:
blargg wrote:Technically, PAL and NTSC are standards for encoding color into a composite video signal, not specifications of the field/frame rate.
This is true, over time the less informed people have accustomed the 50/60hz difference to PAL and NTSC though, that belief is slowly passing.
Its not a belief, its just an easy association scheme. Whether or not the field/frame rates were 'technically' part of the specifications doesn't matter, much like the whole "system tray does not exist" debate. People dealt with 50Hz PAL and 60Hz NTSC for decades. To call them less informed is similar to splitting cunt hairs. I'm surpised someone hasn't started correcting us on how its 59.97Hz or some shit instead of 60Hz. Afterall, its 'less informed' to think of it as 60Hz.
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FirebrandX wrote:I'm surpised someone hasn't started correcting us on how its 59.97Hz or some shit instead of 60Hz. Afterall, its 'less informed' to think of it as 60Hz.
what about 49.97Hz PAL?
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FirebrandX wrote:I'm surpised someone hasn't started correcting us on how its 59.97Hz or some shit instead of 60Hz.
Actually, it's 59.94005994005994005994005994006hz.

(in all seriousness, I agree with you :P )
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Pff, the 60 Hz peak is spread out over a much wider frequency range than just some single irrational number that you state.
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badinsults wrote:Pff, the 60 Hz peak is spread out over a much wider frequency range than just some single irrational number that you state.
LOL, that too is true, especially since a signal is never just a static number but fluctuates constantly.
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blackmyst wrote:Got any examples? I've never seen a PS2 game do PAL60. The few I own that have a 60hz option output NTSC when using it.
Really?!?

That's weird as hell.
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Not that it'd be the weirdest thing about the PS2, but....
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blackmyst wrote:Got any examples? I've never seen a PS2 game do PAL60. The few I own that have a 60hz option output NTSC when using it.
That is the PAL60, as far as I know.
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Agozer wrote:
blackmyst wrote:Got any examples? I've never seen a PS2 game do PAL60. The few I own that have a 60hz option output NTSC when using it.
That is the PAL60, as far as I know.
In my case (Silent Hill 3 PAL using composite bundled cable on PAL tv) I only had colors in 50Hz mode, so I assume that other mode was 60Hz NTSC. DC games used PAL60, but I don't remember any example of PS2 game using PAL60 for 60Hz mode.
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My old TV handles PAL60, but not NTSC, so I can tell the difference between the PS2's and Cube's 60hz output. ;) I even think some PS2 games outright call it NTSC mode in the options, but I may remember that wrong.
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diminish wrote:
Agozer wrote:
blackmyst wrote:Got any examples? I've never seen a PS2 game do PAL60. The few I own that have a 60hz option output NTSC when using it.
That is the PAL60, as far as I know.
In my case (Silent Hill 3 PAL using composite bundled cable on PAL tv) I only had colors in 50Hz mode, so I assume that other mode was 60Hz NTSC. DC games used PAL60, but I don't remember any example of PS2 game using PAL60 for 60Hz mode.
My old TV had the same problem - only monochrome when a game was set to 60Hz.
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blackmyst wrote:My old TV handles PAL60, but not NTSC, so I can tell the difference between the PS2's and Cube's 60hz output. ;) I even think some PS2 games outright call it NTSC mode in the options, but I may remember that wrong.
Could you test out Jak II's 60Hz mode ?

It's also one of the few pulling progressive.
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FirebrandX wrote: Here's the new file, which is a combination of mine and Squire's work:

http://www.firebrandx.com/downloads/fbx2pal.zip

I've got about 100 cartidges I can continue to test colors on. Pretty much the top 100 games for the NES as it is, so I should get a good cross section to work with. Let me know of any game colors you have issues with and I will verify them from my end. Thanks!
It seems the link is broken, do you still have a copy FirebrandX, or does somebody here have a mirror?

Thanks!
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http://home.exetel.com.au/franpa/random/nes_palette

I'm unsure how new it is but am pretty sure it was after majority of activity in this thread died down.
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