> But this leads to the fact that if you try to import an US cartridge to
> Europe, for example, it won't work properly in all cases. And some games
> weren't released in Europe (at least in Austria, that is...), for
> instance, Track & Field (as far as I know...). And considering the
> number of people who would buy a 2600 cartridge today, Way 2) would mean
> that there'd have to be two seperate cartridge production runs, for PAL
> and NTSC, which makes the whole thing more expensive, or leads to the
> fact that one of the runs isn't done if it isn't considered as
> profitable, like it was then.
You wouldn't need two production runs, nor more code to compensate for
both systems... you'd just need to put the switch on the cartridge
instead of using the ones on the 2600.
Made a 4K game? Burn both versions on an 8K ROM and wire a switch to
one of the address lines. Piece of cake.
In theory.
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