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tesco
07-19-2004, 09:04 PM
Hey

my cousin from scotland is coming here to canada in like a week and a half and i want him to bring his PS2 games but i dunno if they will work over here...

will they? im guessing that my playstation 2 is NTSC and his will be PAL but will the games work in my PS2???

thanks.
AcID ZeR0
07-19-2004, 09:49 PM
No they wont work, You'd need to get a mod chip for your PS2 to play PAL on NTSC system vice versa.
3RA1N1AC
07-19-2004, 11:08 PM
if you have no modchip or swap device (like Swap Magic discs), the region lock will stop you from even booting the games. if you have one of those, the game will still need to be copied, patched and burned or else the color and vertical position will both be incorrect. or else you'd need a hardware PAL-to-NTSC converter. there are plenty of NTSC-to-PAL patches, but unfortunately there are hardly any game-specific patches for PAL-to-NTSC conversion. not much demand for it, i guess, 'cause the NTSC editions are usually considered technically superior & more desirable.

you could try jayteemaster's PAL-to-NTSC patcher. (http://www.geocities.com/jayteemaster2003/) if you have a video capture card in your PC, you could try playing through that... the image quality might not be fantastic, but a lot of cards are designed to accept both NTSC & PAL signals.
tesco
07-19-2004, 11:22 PM
nahh no mod chips or convertors, no tv tuner card.

I think we'll just stick to playing my games, thanks anyway.
pc-gamer-dude
07-20-2004, 12:04 AM
just have him bring over his PS2. simple enough I think.
tesco
07-20-2004, 12:09 AM
Originally posted by pc-gamer-dude@19 July 2004 - 19:12
just have him bring over his PS2. simple enough I think.
but it will still play as pal so we gotta get a pal to ntsc convertor...
Keikan
07-20-2004, 12:28 AM
his will be PAL but will the games work in my PS2???

No, i learned that the hard way

I bought a playstation from hong kong once and none of the games work here it just spins and the screen stays black
[Spam]
07-20-2004, 11:10 PM
Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004+20 July 2004 - 00:17--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ROSSCO_2004 @ 20 July 2004 - 00:17)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-pc&#045;gamer&#045;dude@19 July 2004 - 19:12
just have him bring over his PS2. simple enough I think.
but it will still play as pal so we gotta get a pal to ntsc convertor... [/b][/quote]
And a voltage convertor.