50hz pal mode looks horrible on my industry grade Wells Gardner D9800 arcade monitor with the strobe flickering. I don't understand why anyone would prefer PAL over NTSC, considering the extra 100 blank lines at the bottom. On Youtube people have these large letterboxes with squished video on a 4:3 screen and think it's the norm. NTSC mode, the games fill the screen.
I'm not sure what you mean by the majority of games are x over x.. many of the games I've went through in the WHD and Gamebase collection holds true to this, i.e. I often see Lemmings and Gods with wierd proportions, when in NTSC the game video fills border to border.
Gameplay is also noticably choppier on pal's 50 fps. That goes with any system.. like Sega Genesis is smoother than the Mega Drive.
