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PAL speed issues

I can't understad this issue. Presumable these games were not converted to run a the original speed because that would presumably have a cost that was somewhat significant. The strange thing is that I have never heard of any PC game that was dependent on the vertical refresh rate, even for games made in the 80s or the early 90s. However I have seen games made as late as 1997-ish that have been depdendent on the CPU speed so that they run to fast on modern PCs. But most games are not even dependent on the CPU speed. But anyway, if you can at last base the game speed on the CPU speed which is known with absolute certainty for console games, why not do that instead of basing it on the refresh rate? I can't imagine that it would be less conveniant in any way. It's very perplexing to me that console games far into the fifth generation and even the sixth generation still used the refresh rate to determine the game speed.

From the link in the article I read that they decided that the PAL verison of FFX for PS2 should not have a 60 Hz mode optino because then they would have had to store two copies of all movies on the disc. I assume they mean that they would have to add another movie saved with 5/6 frames per second compared to the NTSC version, for example adding a 25 fps movie in addition to the 30 fps NTSC movie. But why? That would never have been needed on a PC, if a movie is 30 fps the cpu would instruct the graphics card to draw a new picture to the screen buffer 30 times per second, based on the clock, or perhaps if it was a really old game based on the CPU speed, but that would be stupid. However for the PS2 you can even base it on the CPU speed and it would still work because the PAL cpu is identical to the NTSC cpu. Why would they still program the game speed and movie frame update speed on the refresh rate? It doesn't make any sense. -- JP

time difference

does anyone know the usual time difference between the release of a game in the North American region compared to the release date in the PAL region? We could put this in the article Kangaroosrule (talk) 03:46, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the external link as it blatantly violates example 2 of WP:EL. EconomicsGuy Return the fire! 06:48, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nintendo Handhelds

"Nintendo handhelds are region-free" The new Nintendo DSi is region locked.

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