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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: pan1k on June 27, 2006, 12:33:27 AM

Title: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: pan1k on June 27, 2006, 12:33:27 AM: Hey All,

I want to buy Monkey Island 2, but it's from the UK for PAL machines. Will it work on my NTSC? I don't think it will but maybe someone here knows a trick?
Title: Re: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: ChaosLord on June 27, 2006, 12:41:18 AM: All Amigas built since 1989 can easily switch between PAL and NTSC. No probelmo amigo.
Title: Re: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: Legerdemain on June 27, 2006, 12:50:23 AM: Monkey Island II will work perfectly even if you run it in NTSC (though, the game will run a couple of % faster than in PAL, but hey, what harm is that).

If you run it in NTSC the game will run in full-screen, which it wouldn't do if run in PAL, even though it was released in the PAL regions (like most other Amiga games...).
Title: Re: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: pan1k on June 27, 2006, 12:56:25 AM: THANKS!!
Title: Re: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: leirbag28 on June 27, 2006, 07:35:52 AM: Im sure there is an NTSC version since it LucasGames
Title: Re: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: whiteb on June 27, 2006, 10:10:19 AM: IF you are running 2.04 or greater, you can hold down both mouse buttons at boot, and tell the amiga to switch between PAL/NTSC.
Title: Re: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: Matt_H on June 27, 2006, 02:02:01 PM: @ whiteb

Sorry, but that's 3.0 or greater :-)
2.0 has a boot menu, but the NTSC/PAL option isn't part of it.

For other users, there's Degrader (see Aminet).
Title: Re: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: Ilwrath on June 27, 2006, 04:05:12 PM: Also, keep in mind, if you're switching from NTSC to PAL, the display device you're using needs to support 50khz.... (Many modern NTSC TVs don't... Older TV's didn't specifically support 50khz, but that could usually be fixed by a turn of the VHOLD knob.)
Title: Re: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: Tricky on June 27, 2006, 04:58:01 PM: Quote

Ilwrath wrote:
Also, keep in mind, if you're switching from NTSC to PAL, the display device you're using needs to support 50khz.... (Many modern NTSC TVs don't... Older TV's didn't specifically support 50khz, but that could usually be fixed by a turn of the VHOLD knob.)

The reverse is also true, although all the Amiga monitors I've owned seem to be able to handle it fine. It's just TVs you need to worry about.

I once wrote a CLI command to switch into NTSC mode to make games full screen. It's only a couple of lines of ASM. There's a single bit in a graphics chip register that controls it. Although that means you have to run the game from Workbench but a reset-proof version could be written quite easily.
Title: Re: PAL Games on NTSC Machine
Post by: pan1k on June 27, 2006, 05:24:50 PM: I found a disk in my software box that says if I inset the disk at startup it will switch the machine to PAL. Guess I will have to try it.