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Re: NTSC Amiga CD32 Titles
« on: September 15, 2010, 12:06:31 AM »
The only NTSC game I have ever seen for the CD32 was "Diggers." A 1084 will display in PAL (as will a multisystem TV) but the NTSC CD32 system will still have issues playing some PAL games even when booted in PAL mode.

 
 

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Re: NTSC Amiga CD32 Titles
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2010, 06:55:17 PM »
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When I had my CD32 back in '95, I remember having:

Pinball Fantasies, Sleepwalker, D/Generation, Heimdall 2, The Lost Vikings, Pirates Gold and some 1st person adventure game that was kinda like Myst & 7th Guest - can't remember the name of it offhand. All of these were NTSC.
 
Sold my CD32 for an N64 shortly after it was released. lol

Hmm... I had the Pinball / Sleepwalker games combo disc back in 1995 and remember them being PAL but playable on my NTSC system and TV. There were sound glitches and the bottom of the screen was missing a bit though.

I really can't state for fact what was and was not produced for NTSC CD32's but considering the system was never officially released in the united states the number has to be very small.

 
 

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Re: NTSC Amiga CD32 Titles
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2010, 04:12:45 PM »
@Kedawa,

Yes this seems to get covered every few months or so. In a nutshell, some developers would only use the NTSC graphics area to save programming time doing different screen sizes for other countries. This is great but for some reason that I don't understand, the sounds would sometimes get messed up when you played a PAL game on an NTSC system.

I remember not understanding this at all back in the early 90's and was blissfully unaware that I was missing the little pin between the flippers when playing pinball dreams on my NTSC A-500 and 1084 monitor. I also attributed occasional messed up sounds with bad cracks and not the fact that the games were PAL.
 
Now that I have a PAL TV and a PAL CD32 (and 1200 actually) it makes a huge difference in games that I though were working before but now look and sound much better. Cannon Fodder is another example of a game that would play ok in NTSC but the intro music would be all messed up.
 
Somewhere, and I think Camy has the link, there is a list of CD32 games and how they play on what systems.