Re: colour problems (was:Re: [stella] sync problems...)

Subject: Re: colour problems (was:Re: [stella] sync problems...)
From: Eckhard Stolberg <Eckhard_Stolberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:32:32 +0100
At 22:29 11.03.98 +0100, you wrote:

>Do you get the colours in the "rewind tape" screen, with a NTSC
>Supercharger on a PAL TV? (just curious). Given the weird "odd Pal lines"
>problem, I think there's only a 50% chance...

I have no problems with that. The Arcadia guys must have been good
programmers, then. :-)

>Also, I've got a Demon Attack cart with a strange colour problem. The cart
>and the box say "PAL", but the game plays in black and white on a PAL TV. I
>think that the cart can't be "broken", the only reason should be the game
>doing an odd number of scanlines, but why didn't they notice this? I must
>say that this is a late "white label" Imagic release, so maybe for some
>strange reason they used the NTSC code... who knows.

Most games on the PAL only 32-in-1 cart suffer of colourloss 
every now and then. Maybe the programmers all got a bit sloppy
towards the end.


Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg



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