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Old 18-01-2002, 8:06 AM   #2
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I take your point, and I'm certainly not arguing that NTSC is superior to PAL. That would be pretty stupid.

I'm not saying that the games should be 50/60Hz switchable (necessarily) either.

It's just that a few years ago the norm was to do a proper PAL conversion when the time came to release the game in PAL territories. These days it doesn't seem to be the case. It's all very well to have "100 lines of extra resolution", but if what you get is 100 extra lines of black then what's the point? May was well just get the NTSC version that will at least be viewed at full-screen rather than with the borders.

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