PAL or not PAL, that is the question....

[Buyatari]

How do you know if a sealed 7800 game is NTSC or PAL without opening it? I had some extras and sold a few off and had one returned because they said it was PAL.

[+Marc Oberhäuser]

How do you know if a sealed 7800 game is NTSC or PAL without opening it? I had some extras and sold a few off and had one returned because they said it was PAL.

 

 

Most of them are completely identical, even the EAN code is the same. I had to open every box the check if there is a German/International manual in it. I just checked a bunch of games and only Scrapyard Dog was slightly different (rescaled back artwork and an additional "Made in").

[+Mitch]

Some PAL games also have a non-english manual shrinked to the outside of the box.

 

Mitch

[Mayhem]

Yeah, without any outside sign like a manual inside the shrink on the outside of the box, you can't tell at all until you open her up...

[FeelB]

How do you know if a sealed 7800 game is NTSC or PAL without opening it? I had some extras and sold a few off and had one returned because they said it was PAL.

 

Tell me if you find PAL games before returning them i should be interested, since i've got a french pal ATARI 7800.

[Buyatari]

So how do you list sealed games for sale? Do you state it may be PAL or NTSC ? Or is is buyer beware?

 

I once sold a game years ago as NTSC and the buyer said it was PAL. Was he lying? Easy way to pull a bait and switch if you DO have a complete PAL version.

[+Marc Oberhäuser]

So how do you list sealed games for sale? Do you state it may be PAL or NTSC ? Or is is buyer beware?

 

I once sold a game years ago as NTSC and the buyer said it was PAL. Was he lying? Easy way to pull a bait and switch if you DO have a complete PAL version.

 

Yep, that seems to be the only way. If you bought a stack of one game you will have to sacrifice one shrink to check:)

[+RandomPerson]

So how do you list sealed games for sale? Do you state it may be PAL or NTSC ? Or is is buyer beware?

 

I once sold a game years ago as NTSC and the buyer said it was PAL. Was he lying? Easy way to pull a bait and switch if you DO have a complete PAL version.

 

Yep, that seems to be the only way. If you bought a stack of one game you will have to sacrifice one shrink to check:)

 

 

Even thats not a for sure thing Marc cause Atari was terrible for tossing in NTSC copies as fillers in PAL cases.