PAL Games on NTSC Machine

[pan1k]

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?

[ChaosLord]

All Amigas built since 1989 can easily switch between PAL and NTSC.  No probelmo amigo.

[Legerdemain]

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...).

[pan1k]

THANKS!!

[leirbag28]

Im sure there is an NTSC version since it LucasGames

[whiteb]

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.

[Matt_H]

@ 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).

[Ilwrath]

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.)

[Tricky]

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.

[pan1k]

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.