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I´ve read an article on a website so as to get more into this whole PAL and NTSC thingy.
So it looks like PAL, even tough it has a lower frame rate compared to NTSC, it display a picture with slightly better resolution and color than NTSC games.
My question is: Running a PAL game at 60hz (when the games have that option of course)will it reduce the quality?
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It's still 20 or so percent faster than PAL though.
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If you set the resolution manually, then the PAL and NTSC version on Pcsx2 will look the same, just 50Hz and 60Hz respectively. Running a PAL game at 60Hz however, unless it's designed for that, will run faster than intended, which is usually not fun.
But you should not be concerned with the quality.
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(11-25-2010, 09:02 PM)kakashisensei Wrote: So ok,PAL is better, and running it at 60hz won´t reduce it´s quality right?
Depends on the game, some games are lazy conversions and you get stretched pictures (part of the higher resolution thing) that end up looking as fatter characters for example or simply needing to move the screen so it fits the TV resulting in missing parts of the picture being seen. If you don't care about that and taking in count you wouldn't have the problem with the missing picture with a monitor and PCSX2 then I don't see why they'd be lower quality.
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