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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: Florida on January 04, 2012, 04:51:20 PM

Title: Will Pal games run perfectly on NTSC machine with LCD screen?
Post by: Florida on January 04, 2012, 04:51:20 PM

I spotted a game in England that I wanted to buy but it is in pal format. My setup is an Amiga 500 with an LCD monitor connected to.

Title: Re: Will Pal games run perfectly on NTSC machine with LCD screen?
Post by: runequester on January 04, 2012, 05:50:02 PM

From my experience with an NTSC A2000 in the past, most PAL games either:

Won't run at all
Will run but far too fast

Title: Re: Will Pal games run perfectly on NTSC machine with LCD screen?
Post by: save2600 on January 04, 2012, 05:57:32 PM

If you've got a 1MB Agnus chip, and switch your system to display the 50hz PAL mode (via Early Startup, TUDE or Degrader), you shouldn't experience any speedup probs at all.

Not sure if your LCD display can handle the region change, but it might. Do a search to see if your monitor is compatible with the 50hz signal first I guess, but I'd venture to guess that yes, it would be fine.

Title: Re: Will Pal games run perfectly on NTSC machine with LCD screen?
Post by: Florida on January 05, 2012, 01:08:55 AM

That's interesting. I will look into the 1MB Agnus chip. So what happens when you use TUDE or degrader? The computer restarts and turns into PAL? Are these programs freeware or copyright?

Title: Re: Will Pal games run perfectly on NTSC machine with LCD screen?
Post by: Zac67 on January 05, 2012, 11:43:04 AM

If the game switches to PAL mode (provided your 500 is able to) your monitor might have problems sync'ing down to 50 Hz vertical. Check the manual or just try it.
Otherwise the lower part of the screen might get cut off (200 visible lines instead of 256) and badly coded software (using vertical sync as reference) may also increase the playing speed by 20%.