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<blockquote data-quote="CoolMe" data-source="post: 9833758" data-attributes="member: 485248"><p>That makes sense actually, and probably they went with PAL versions instead (less work for them).. And they don't care<strong> if they run </strong>slower than they're supposed to, hoping people wouldn't notice..</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's not that simple actually.. While the resolution is indeed higher with the PAL video standard.. in the context of PS1 games, it's not not fairly utilized, as most games are made for and from NTSC monitors and tvs, devs program and work on NTSC screens, since most games released for the system are either made from JP or NA (both use NTSC)..</p><p>So when it's time to release the NTSC version (either the Japanese or NA variant) it runs how it should and it was programmed to play.</p><p>But unfortunately for the PAL folks, they get a slowed down version so it can work and display properly on their 50Hz tvs, and the higher resolution wouldn't matter here because those extra pixels could not be used (since games were made for NTSC tvs) so they show up as black bars instead, on the top and lower part of the screen..</p><p>An optimized PAL version of the game that runs fine at 50hz, can and was done during that era, but since it requires time and programming from the devs for it to be achieved, most of the time it was skipped..</p><p></p><p>Most of the time devs (during that period) didn't make a 60Hz option for PAL games, and they only started doing that during the Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox era or so, and even then, it wasn't always included..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CoolMe, post: 9833758, member: 485248"] That makes sense actually, and probably they went with PAL versions instead (less work for them).. And they don't care[B] if they run [/B]slower than they're supposed to, hoping people wouldn't notice.. It's not that simple actually.. While the resolution is indeed higher with the PAL video standard.. in the context of PS1 games, it's not not fairly utilized, as most games are made for and from NTSC monitors and tvs, devs program and work on NTSC screens, since most games released for the system are either made from JP or NA (both use NTSC).. So when it's time to release the NTSC version (either the Japanese or NA variant) it runs how it should and it was programmed to play. But unfortunately for the PAL folks, they get a slowed down version so it can work and display properly on their 50Hz tvs, and the higher resolution wouldn't matter here because those extra pixels could not be used (since games were made for NTSC tvs) so they show up as black bars instead, on the top and lower part of the screen.. An optimized PAL version of the game that runs fine at 50hz, can and was done during that era, but since it requires time and programming from the devs for it to be achieved, most of the time it was skipped.. Most of the time devs (during that period) didn't make a 60Hz option for PAL games, and they only started doing that during the Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox era or so, and even then, it wasn't always included.. [/QUOTE]
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