Skippy B. Coyote Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 (edited) Hey there everyone I've been getting really interested in the Sega Master System lately and have been exploring the system's library via emulation on my Wii before I consider adding the real Master System console to my gaming center, but there's one thing that's been bugging me that I'm hoping to get some help with. I live in the US so I've got a NTSC CRT TV that I'm playing on, but many of the most interesting (to me at least) games for the Master System were only released in Europe or Brazil. I know that quite a few foreign games were programmed to run at 60Hz, but I'm having trouble figuring out which games were intended to run at 50Hz. I know that in most cases running a 50Hz PAL game on a 60Hz NTSC TV and system will just result in the game and it's music running 17.5% faster than normal, but it would still be really nice to be able to know which PAL games will run faster than the developers intended when played on a NTSC TV/system. Is there a list somewhere of which Master System games were made to run at 50Hz? Edited May 15, 2016 by Jin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Hierophant Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 http://www.smspower.org/Tags/PALOnly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 http://www.smspower.org/Tags/PALOnly Thanks Hierophant! While that may not be a full list of the Master System games designed to run at 50Hz it's still good to know which ones to expect issues (other than simply running 17.5% faster) from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Hierophant Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Also, the list of European Exclusive releases is more fodder for the PAL-preferred speed : http://www.smspower.org/Tags/EuropeanExclusive However, a lot of games released in Europe were also released in Brazil, so you should cross-reference games that were Brazilian or European but not American or Japanese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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