Post everytime you get ANYTHING retro. We want to know (^v^)

[Mayhem]

Having said that Super Tennis is one of the few games I have on Pal - when played through an NTSC console it was super fast due to being optimized for 50 hz but boosted further by the 60 hz console - if I play the Jap version now on NTSC it feels really sluggish!

I actually tried that as a laugh back in the day as I had a NTSC-U SNES and borrowed the PAL version from a mate. Definitely psycho tennis

[Champloo]

Going completely off-topic here but about the modded snes'. Got one with a 50/60hz switch - when I flip it to 50hz for a PAL game, is it going to play the music at the right speed? I don't know if they usually optimise the music for PAL versions, so i'll therefore be getting the game running at the right speed but the music 17.5% too fast, or am I talking out of my arse?

[Max P.]

Depends on the game but yes, normally the 50/60 hz difference changes the speed of the music as well as the graphics etc.

[Sabreman]

Let's take a moment to reflect on and appreciate the music from level 3 of Super Contra...


...


... beautiful

[Klatrymadon]

Yeah, level 3's always been my favourite, too. The soundtrack never leaves my mp3 player!

Just to be ultra-pedantic, though, Super Contra is the 2nd game.

All of level 6's tunes are belters, too.

[Sabreman]

Gawd, the shame

I even wrote Contra III to start with then edited it.

[MattyD]

Going completely off-topic here but about the modded snes'. Got one with a 50/60hz switch - when I flip it to 50hz for a PAL game, is it going to play the music at the right speed?

Depends on the game. I haven't noticed much difference TBH, and besides which the music programs ought to (really) play the music based on real time rather than computer time, like a real musician would. I know a lot of Mega Drive games didn't, but only one SNES game I've tried so far - Alien 3, which had an absolutely lazy PAL conversion - seems any different. The gorgeosity of Zelda LttP and Super Castlevania IV seem fine to me, at least

[Yakumo]

The Pal version of Super Aleste has REALLY SLOW music plus it's missing loads of stuff like the US version.

Yakumo

[chaoticjelly]

These few posts make me want to buy this Contra game.. back in the day I had many SNES games (about 70 - spoilt I know) and they were all PAL ones.

I always wanted a converter but was never allowed?

Some of my games were some of the crappiest games, but all of the SNES games I had give fond memories.. well, except Pit Fighter, what a pile of toss

[dannywhac]

Bit off topic again, but worse than Pit Fighter.........Shaq Fu!

[Escape-To-88]

Picked u this badboy today, The Garou: M.O.W LE Boxset for PS2, perhaps not strictly retro but Neo-Geo related.
After looking for the last few weeks for it, found it in an independant import shop a mere hour up the road from me!
The best part - a snip at £40 Sealed and near mint.

[Big Seany]

That was cheaper than mine you bast!

[Escape-To-88]

'Av some of that you Hampshire rapscallion

[Champloo]

Depends on the game. I haven't noticed much difference TBH, and besides which the music programs ought to (really) play the music based on real time rather than computer time, like a real musician would. I know a lot of Mega Drive games didn't, but only one SNES game I've tried so far - Alien 3, which had an absolutely lazy PAL conversion - seems any different. The gorgeosity of Zelda LttP and Super Castlevania IV seem fine to me, at least

So would that mean when I up the PAL versions to 60hz the music will play faster than the NTSC versions or the same? Sorry, bit confused about it.

[Max P.]

Again, it depends on the game. Some 50 hz games were optimized, some were not.