Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Mark Green Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Import Gaming Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:06:34 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 39 Message-ID: <36F0195A.3B7D@antelope.demon.co.uk> References: <01be6f35$d91f2780$0a3ddec2@sonia> <7ckb4r$fu96@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <01be6ff8$6ec48ce0$0a3ddec2@sonia> <36EF8EF0.D4CF5BF0@reading.ac.uk> <7con71$fu911@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: antelope.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Rikki Prince wrote: > >I have the feeling that it's just because they worry that younger >players > won't understand what it's for. > Sorry, don't agree with this. According to Sony their target age range is in > the 20's, so I doubt they'd worry about younger users becoming confused. > Anyway, what are manuals for!! lol > However, its most likely they will not go into any PAL/NTSC trickery as it > would just add complication to everything, except you! j/k. I don't see why it would actually be that much more complicated. In 90% of the cases the PAL versions of games we get are identical to the American versions except for the video standard, so all they'd need to do is to leave the American version on the disk with the European version and stick a switching menu on the front. There'd be no serialisation problems as long as both games used the same memory card format. The Amiga, in fact, had a similar thing.. you could toggle the entire system between NTSC and PAL by going to the system menu and tapping any key (they made it that so that if your TV couldn't support the "wrong" standard and you changed to it, you could get back again without needing to be able to read the screen - a rare thing, a good Amiga design decision (ducks) ;)) > As I said Sony > will want to avoid any complication, so it won't happen. A shame, since having seen how things get mangled I plan to avoid buying any further PAL consoles. I hope they put VGA support in the PSX2. > >So why not make it a DIP switch or > Sorry, what's one of those, just out of interest. Cheers Dinky little switch somewhere, usually behind a blanking plate and usually has to be flicked with a small object. Classically used in ye olde days to allow people to set up hardware and leave it set up without people who don't know what they're doing messing up the setup by hitting random buttons. Hence ideal if you want to stop Junior switching the video mode by mistake and making your TV go icky. :)