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SD_DRACULA - Apr 3, 2004
    SD_DRACULA Apr 3, 2004 
is there such a tool for isos?

    racketboy Apr 3, 2004 
for what system?

I'm not sure why this in General

    Ammut Apr 4, 2004 
I would love to see a program like this for dvds, because converting is a pain. I saw a pal/ntsc converter for ps2 on Suprnova, but that wouldn't work for movies

And if thats what you were looking for, backup talk is not allowed here for dc/ps2/xbox/gc.

---Ammut

    gameboy900 Apr 4, 2004 
Ammut converting DVD's between PAL and NTSC would be (and is) a major pain in the ass. The reason is that you HAVE TO reencode the video due to the two different frame rates and resolutions used by PAL and NTSC. I had to convert a bunch of PAL discs to NTSC and it took in excess of a day for each one. Not fun.

    SD_DRACULA Apr 4, 2004 
oh i was talking about the sega saturn isos.

can you convert 'em from ntsc to pal?

    IBarracudaI Apr 4, 2004 
You can run NTSC games on PAL consoles (by patching its country code, it's kinda like DVD regions you change the region, but you can't change the video format), but you will suffer some side effects of running on a different video standard. eg. a NTSC on a PAL saturn, will run slower, and won't be fullscreen, and PAL on NTSC the game will run faster and the image won't fit on the screen, it's too big. lol

    SD_DRACULA Apr 5, 2004 
what if i use the 5-in1 action replay?

still the same?

    mal Apr 5, 2004 
Still the same.

The only thing that the 5 in 1 will change is that you won't need to alter the region of any imports before playing them.

    Curtis Apr 5, 2004 

  
Originally posted by gameboy900@Apr 4, 2004 @ 06:30 AM

Ammut converting DVD's between PAL and NTSC would be (and is) a major pain in the ass. The reason is that you HAVE TO reencode the video due to the two different frame rates and resolutions used by PAL and NTSC. I had to convert a bunch of PAL discs to NTSC and it took in excess of a day for each one. Not fun.


How'd that work for you? Did you get micro-stuttering in the converted copy? I thought I read somewhere that PAL-NTSC is a tricky conversion even in a commercial environment.

I'm just curious where the extra frames come from/go to.

    gameboy900 Apr 5, 2004 
It worked alright...then again the source was of a 30 year old tv program that wasn't the greatest quality to begin with. Converting from PAL to NTSC is almost the same as 24fps film to NTSC. It basically uses a special pattern to sync the 50 PAL fields into the 60 NTSC fields. So that in each second of footage 10 of the PAL fields get duplicated.