Tempest Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 I sent Al the PAL Save Mary rom and he has put it in the zip file with the NTSC one. Enjoy! http://www.atariage.com/2600/roms/SaveMary.zip Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 CloneSpy says: 0 1 0 SaveMary_PAL······· · 97 1 SaveMary_NTSC······ = · So both ROMs are very identical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 So both ROMs are very identical. No, both ROM's are very similar. Identical is 100% and 'very identical' doesn't exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 No, both ROM's are very similar. Identical is 100% and 'very identical' doesn't exist. Grrr, that shouldn't have happened. Not to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 9, 2005 Author Share Posted January 9, 2005 Since the PAL version is dated much later than what we assume the final NTSC rom to be (91 actually), I assume it was just a straight conversion job. I didn't think they would add anything. So the fact that they're only 3% different doesn't surprise me. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 Since the PAL version is dated much later than what we assume the final NTSC rom to be (91 actually), I assume it was just a straight conversion job. I didn't think they would add anything. So the fact that they're only 3% different doesn't surprise me. 3% is a very little difference for a PAL conversion, usually it's about 10-20%. So I suppose they only changed the framerate and the colors, but didn't adapt the game speeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 10, 2005 Author Share Posted January 10, 2005 Wouldn't surprise me if it was a half assed conversion. This was done REALLY late in the 2600 game. It is however, the final PAL version (you can tell by the EPROM label) and not some programmer fooling around. This was the best Atari was going to do. How does it play vs. the NTSC one? Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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