- Barver
- Mar 13 2011, 05:54:21 AM
I know this will sound ignorant, but does China primarily use PAL? If they can't use NTSC then they must have made some sort of change for the mainland release.[/quote]If I remember correctly, they use both for some odd reason. I know they use PAL, at least.
yeah, I was always under the impression that they use both, I'm not exactly sure though. PAL seems to be more common but apparently the PS2 released there was NTSC..
Wikipedia list China as a PAL-SECAM country. But they used NTSC too from what I understand (famiclones).
You may get some help from me but only a very low amount. I'm broke too...
Heh, no worries. I'll get the money myself eventually, though slowly. I don't even have a scanner so I'm not the most ideal person to even receive them if anyone else offered money to help.
On that note, there probably won't be any updates to this thread until I get them, unless I find more stuff. Maybe I started it too early =p
Took this photo so may as well show it. One shot from 鳥籠院. Looks better zoomed out a bit.
(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4500/0315012000.jpg)
I got a hold of a digital camera for awhile and finally took some better pics of the magazine. Hopefully someone finds it interesting! I'm still trying to raise funds for all issues of the 1996 issues of that Chinese magazine btw =p
Only notable thing here is that the console has a colored A'can logo on it, while the final released one just was an imprint of the logo into the gray molding.
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/8876/p1000716wi.jpg (http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/8876/p1000716wi.jpg)
Son of Evil stand at a convention :D Plus an odd rendition of the console is there too. Must have been an interesting convention.. You can also see the earlier color scheme for the controller.
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/1021/p1000715wg.jpg (http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/1021/p1000715wg.jpg)
Pic of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" at the bottom left there. I noticed that the barrel-like thing the A'can is being displayed on top of appears in pics of the Funtech offices in that A'can magazine also.
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/848/p1000714i.jpg (http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/848/p1000714i.jpg)
Most notable here is two pics of an obvious Super Hang On rip-off. Plus a shot of 鳥籠.
http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/8380/p1000713.jpg (http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/8380/p1000713.jpg)
I recognize that guy from the A'can magazine also. Looks like a screen "showing off" that Taiwanese Baseball game. Boring.
http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/9199/acan2.jpg (http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/9199/acan2.jpg)
Preview pics of upcoming games. You can see a couple unreleased things plus a pic of Rebel Star(叛星), which I'm not sure anyone has seen before or not.
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/8779/p1000708w.jpg (http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/8779/p1000708w.jpg)
Old stuff, but I don't know how I didn't notice this: the developer of 惡魔島 is Jack Bean Information Co., which as I discovered in the PC game thread (http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums?topic=8430267/1/) is credited on a couple PC games (and probably even more than that, that just haven't been discovered).
Wonder if it's related to VFame's Castlevania/Getsu Fuma Den knockoff of the same title, incidentally? From the art style in some of the game intros I've seen, I wouldn't be surprised if Jack Bean had some Chuanpu art people working for them on the side.