1. It depends. I had a NES reprint Little Red Hood game that was PAL format and I have two FC ones that are NTSC. They're normally NTSC I believe but some regions might've gotten PAL variants (they're kinda mixed in Asia) so that's totally possible. Maybe the first-print NES stuff with their own boxes were released in surrounding Asia areas that had Chinese NES systems (I think China had the NES system...)
2. The Sachen published NES games ARE 60-pin boards in converters, as mentioned on the wiki. I've popped my games open and that's what they are. The ones published elsewhere like Color Dreams were proper 72-pin boards.
3. Many people from the states imported them, but it wasn't just them. Several Europeans were importing them too.[/quote]1. If the games are all Famicom carts slapped into converters, would it even be possible to make it into a PAL version? Is there any such thing as a PAL Famicom game?
Even the countries that received the Sachen 72 pin games originally (some were PAL countries) had the habit of importing some NTSC NES games and just running them on their machines, albeit at a different rate. This can basically be confirmed.
2. Does anyone know for sure if ALL of these games are just Famicom games with adapters? I only owned one of the NES versions, and that was a long time ago and I don't recall if I ever opened it or not...we are talking something like ten years ago! Of course the Color Dreams games would be in NTSC format, just like the HES games would be in PAL. But those were just published by those companies, sp I imagine they did whatever work necessary to make the games ready to publish in their countries.
3. I remember when the whole importing thing went down, I was there. I didn't import any, but the biggest players in that whole deal were from America. There was one collector from New York who comes to mind, as well as a few other collectors, whose names I also recall. As for European collectors importing, I can think of one off the top of my head, and maybe a second one. But afaik, these guys did not import near the quantity that those other guys did.
- taizou
- Jul 5 2013, 02:38:14 PM
honestly i don't know, there is a PAL ROM of Magic Mathematic floating around which I guess is from HES's version - if there are any other PAL versions they probably come from HES too. My guess would be all of Sachen's own releases are designed for NTSC and just run slower on PAL, but its possible they made PAL optimised versions for PAL countries too...[/quote]This is what I would be led to believe as well.
Rather curious to hear more about Shazam's Little Red Hood PAL version, Sachen release. Could be just the HES version (at some point, HES had been publishing their games in Sachen cases, and just made their own boxes) housed in a reprint box.
