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How could/can there exist NTSC->PAL converters for SNES and other classic game consoles?
Re-reading my old video game magazines from the mid-1990s, there's constant mentions of "USA import" games which were not released here and which "require an adapter". Many of the ...
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Were the classic game consoles *technically* able to play both NTSC and PAL games, if ignoring artificial region lock-in?
I'm not asking if they were region-free; I know they weren't generally.
I'm asking if, given an NTSC-supporting PAL TV, an NTSC game cartridge, and a PAL NES/SNES/N64/whatever, and also given some ...
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Was PAL or NTSC encoder IC a critical component in early video games?
I have an old Philips Videopac C52 video game console of the Philips Odyssey 2 family like the G-7000 with 128-byte RAM:
While checking its boards to compare with the schematics I got for the G-7000 ...
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