Timeline for Were the classic game consoles *technically* able to play both NTSC and PAL games, if ignoring artificial region lock-in?
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| Jun 21, 2021 at 9:56 | answer | added | Muzer | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 1:22 | answer | added | Meep the Changeling | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 19, 2021 at 2:44 | comment | added | NetServOps | Not a direct answer but some interesting info, Datel Electronics and some other manufacturers actually sold adapters for SNES that allowed you to bypass region block and also play NTSC games on PAL and vice versa. You plugged in the adapter then attached a PAL cartridge to the back of it (for region bypass) and attached the NTSC game on top. I had one and from memory, I never had any issues with the games I played. So, even though the SNES internals were as described in the answers below, that was a not a barrier to playing NTSC games. | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 22:11 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 18, 2021 at 21:19 | comment | added | knol | See also retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/16625/… and retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/19962/… | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 19:37 | answer | added | Justme | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 15:28 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 53 | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 15:14 | answer | added | lvd | timeline score: 17 | |
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| Jun 18, 2021 at 14:09 | history | asked | D. S. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |