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Why is PAL/NTSC 3/4 for snes but 5/6 for X?
Post by FluddyFlea on May 18th, 2003, 08:23am

converting times that is... The tvstandards are 50/60 so why not fzero SNES?
Re: Why is PAL/NTSC 3/4 for snes but 5/6 for X?
Post by Webmaster on May 18th, 2003, 09:11am

on May 18th, 2003, 08:23am, FluddyFlea wrote:
converting times that is... The tvstandards are 50/60 so why not fzero SNES?


Because when they converted F-Zero SNES from NTSC to PAL, they altered the programming in such a way that 5/6 is obviously not an accurate conversion. We attempted to determine what would be a fair rate, and although at ANY conversion factor there will be questions and doubters, 3/4 seems to be the closest and most fair rate to use.
Re: Why is PAL/NTSC 3/4 for snes but 5/6 for X?
Post by djungelurban on May 22nd, 2003, 09:21am

actually, I think the frame rate for F-Zero is 18 for PAL and 24 for NTSC...