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From: "Peter Dollochan" <Peter.Dollochan@btinternet.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners
Subject: Re: black&white
Date: 14 Jul 1998 17:09:20 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Nice one george now thats what i call an answer :-)
(if it works ;)

Pete.

George Bain <George_Bain@Playstation.sony.com> wrote in article
<01bdae10$fab64180$f2e832a2@gbain.wav.scee.sony.co.uk>...
> 	
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Yes, there is another way.  When the PlayStation first boots up the video
> mode
> defaults to NTSC.  If you do a GetVideoMode() at the startup it will be
> NTSC.
> So lets check the product code ( product code is different in all 3
> territories)
> on the Net Yaroze Boot Disc.  If the file is not found we now know that
the
> user 
> has a NTSC machine.  Check the code below..
> 
> P.S.  Note, you have to use a scart cable to see color in NTSC mode.
> 
> 	if( CdSearchFile(&file, "\\DTL_S30.35;1") == 0)
> 	   {
> 	      printf("Boot file not found... MODE_NTSC enabled \n");
> 	      SetVideoMode( MODE_NTSC );
> 	      video_mode = GetVideoMode();	 
> 	   }
> 	 else
> 	   {
> 	      printf("Boot file found... MODE_PAL enabled \n");
> 	      SetVideoMode( MODE_PAL );
> 	      video_mode = GetVideoMode();
> 	   }
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> George@SCEE
> 
> 
>