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From: Mark Green <Mark.Green@reading.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: That Import Gaming Issue
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:21:10 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Ed Fear wrote: 
> Heya all!
> I recently recieved FFT from America.  It would be nice to run it, but it
> seems that the only two TV's that have SCART cables in our house are
> composite A/V ones.  Darn It!  I just get the damn black and white
> flick-o-rama...  I'm using the SCART cable that came with the Net Yaroze, I
> guess that one is suitable.  

  What type of cable?  With my Yaroze I got a one-video-two-audio-plug
to SCART adapter, which will NOT work for imports.  (It can only provide
a composite AV signal) You need a combined-AV-port to SCART cable (which
provides an RGB signal).

> Do those Game
> Enhancer thingys work with the Net Yaroze, because when Mark Naylor came to
> my house and bought one with him, it went into flick-o-rama.  

  Yes, Action Replays work on the Yaroze just like any other PSX.  But,
if you have a UK Action Replay and a US game, and you use the freeze
frame feature on the Replay, the game will be jolted into a PAL
resolution and will never recover (ie, it will flicker, flash and
fail).  However, if you set the codes up before the start of a game it
will work fine.

> I was speaking
> to the guy in my local games store and he has a chipped PSX and doesn't even
> need a SCART socket - do the chips covert the signals?  

  Not as far as I know.  There may be another modification that lets it
produce a "PAL60" signal, though.
  Btw, Sega have APPARANTLY (according to Computer Exchange) bitten the
bullet and announced that UK Dreamcast games will be dual standard - ie,
we can run them in 60Hz NTSC mode if we want to avoid slowdown and
bordering!!  Yeeeeaaa!  Let's all PLEASE hope that Sony'll follow suit
on that with the PSX2..