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From: Robert Swan <rs108@mdx.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: NTSC/PAL start-up convention?
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 08:43:01 +0100
Organization: I wish!
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I try to stick to [select+start] to quit from any point in the game (no
matter how messily) as a matter of habit. Having just one key seems
strange, and it is annoying to load up people's demos and press triangle
or whatever and then have to load it again. Maybe I should read the
readme.txt files but if there is one thing I agree a lot with from Sony
is the way they stick to conventions to make games easier to pick up
(for example, making cross the most important button).

Regarding our code, if SCEE members do not put in SetVideoMode(MODE_PAL)
then it defaults to NTSC. Probably for the simple reason that out of
SCEE SCEA and SCEI two of the territories were NTSC so they printed all
the cds like that rather than print up two different sorts.

So my suggestion is, that even NTSC programs should have a call to
SetVideoMode(MODE_NTSC) simply so that when someone nice writes the
opposite of your conversion program there is actually some code for it
to find! Surely it wouldnt be hard to write the conversion program to do
the reverse transformation? I get annoyed at black/white games, it
really detracts.

On a different note, most of the problems could be solved by people
including their source allowing us to recompile should we want to. As
people may know I wish everyone would include their source code,
regardless of whether it is for CW or gnu, seeing as in a way its a bit
of arrogance that anyone would _want_ to steal any of your ideas. I mean
lets be honest, NOONE has done any groundbreaking new stuff that you
cant get out of a book or acheive with a bit of thought. 

Robert Swan