From: Nicolas Welte (no_spam_at_x1541.de)
Date: 2004-07-12 18:45:11
matt wrote:
> ok iv just got one from a new zealand (my home land) and am testing it.
>
> 1 it's ntsc the sound is faster than i am use to. 50hz here!
As others have said already, the sound routines of many games usually run in
the vertical blanking interrupt (VBI), which is 60 Hz on NTSC machines.
Nothing you can do about it, except rewrite the game code or convert your
NTSC to be a true PAL machine (both options are very hard). I enjoy my NTSC
SX machine as it is, and I like to run the intro of Skate or Die on it! The
music *really* rocks on this machine, very unlike the slower sound on PAL
machines. EA made a bad job in converting this NTSC game to PAL, they slowed
down the music!
> 2 my Action Replay mk VI dosent work.. :( are the keys differnt on the
> sx64??
There can be two problems: 1. the contacts of the AR are dirty. Remove the
cover, and rub the contacts with a pencil eraser (with the more abrasive
side) until they are bright and shiny again. This helped a lot for me, before
this treatment my AR would work fine on any C64/128, but not on an SX! 2. The
fastloader of the AR is PAL/NTSC specific. If your AR is PAL only, go to
ar.c64.org and grab an AR or RR ROM that works on NTSC and burn it to EPROM.
Or buy a Retro Replay ;)
Nicolas
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