American versions

Peanutuk · 21 October 2001, 21:20

Is there any interest in American versions of games? I have lots of complete boxed US games all of whihc have radically (and oftyen comically poor) covers, disks and manuals. I'll upload a few covers if there is any interest.

Ian · 21 October 2001, 21:28

Not really a Problem, so I moved this thread

I'm certainly interested in the funny one's, just to see what the difference's were

I wonder why they were different anyway, I'd like to know what the thinking was behind giving them a comical apperance compaired to the UK ones.

Peanutuk · 21 October 2001, 21:53

this ine's more naff then comical.

Ian · 21 October 2001, 22:08

Yeap that is pretty naff

Sorry I miss read your first post, you said comically poor not comical HaHa.

CodyJarrett · 22 October 2001, 10:12

I've split the Afterburner stuff from this thread and moved it to Games/Problems.

MethodGit · 22 October 2001, 14:03

was there ever any kind of country protection scheme on the Amiga? In that it would prevent you from running American games on a UK machine or something?

Amiga1992 · 22 October 2001, 18:22

No protection scheme, BUT games designed for PAL machines wouldn't work on NTSC machines (and some games designed specifically for NTSC wouldnt work on PAL Amigas either)

Since the games were programed relying heavily on the sync of the video chip's clock rate(or something like that, I'm not a big techie

), PAL games would just fuckup on NTSC machines beacuse of the different clock. Some games worked fine on both machiens, usually those that you play on your PAL meega and leave a 56 pixels border below the screen.

On the C64 same stuff happened. But no specific country lockup.

Codetapper · 23 October 2001, 03:18

Lots of games actually did have PAL/NTSC country protection built into them. One off the top of my head is The Spy Who Loved Me from Domark.

It checked the beam position of the screen and went into an infinite loop if it wasn't what it expected. (I think it was protected so it wouldn't run on NTSC machines). So it definitely did exist and it crops up in quite a number of games. Pipemania is another one come to think of it. 2 bytes to hack it

Going the other way, Fighter Duel Pro was protected so it only ran on NTSC machines!

As Akira says, some "badly" coded games are non NTSC or non PAL due to silly coding or timing issues aswell. MF Tanks for example just locks up in NTSC mode.

Amiga1992 · 23 October 2001, 19:05

A question for you, Codetapper

Let's say I take Lionheart. Can that work on an NTSC machine? I think it would die on it.

Or someting like..hmmm.. dunno... a game that uses the full PAL screen resolution. There's no way you can fix that stuff... and the beam check would get screwed up because there are extra lines the thing doesn't understand, or doesn't know where to locate them.

21 October 2001, 21:20	#1
Peanutuk Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The North, UK Age: 44 Posts: 1,082	American versions Is there any interest in American versions of games? I have lots of complete boxed US games all of whihc have radically (and oftyen comically poor) covers, disks and manuals. I'll upload a few covers if there is any interest.

21 October 2001, 21:53	#3
Peanutuk Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The North, UK Age: 44 Posts: 1,082	Well................. this ine's more naff then comical. Attached Thumbnails

22 October 2001, 14:03	#6
MethodGit Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Streets Age: 39 Posts: 2,731	Probably a worthless question, but... was there ever any kind of country protection scheme on the Amiga? In that it would prevent you from running American games on a UK machine or something?

23 October 2001, 03:18	#8
Codetapper 2 contact me: email only! Join Date: May 2001 Location: Auckland / New Zealand Posts: 3,182	Spy who Loved Me Lots of games actually did have PAL/NTSC country protection built into them. One off the top of my head is The Spy Who Loved Me from Domark. It checked the beam position of the screen and went into an infinite loop if it wasn't what it expected. (I think it was protected so it wouldn't run on NTSC machines). So it definitely did exist and it crops up in quite a number of games. Pipemania is another one come to think of it. 2 bytes to hack it Going the other way, Fighter Duel Pro was protected so it only ran on NTSC machines! As Akira says, some "badly" coded games are non NTSC or non PAL due to silly coding or timing issues aswell. MF Tanks for example just locks up in NTSC mode.

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21 October 2001, 21:28	#2
Ian Global Moderator Join Date: May 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 46 Posts: 2,287	Not really a Problem, so I moved this thread I'm certainly interested in the funny one's, just to see what the difference's were I wonder why they were different anyway, I'd like to know what the thinking was behind giving them a comical apperance compaired to the UK ones.

21 October 2001, 22:08	#4
Ian Global Moderator Join Date: May 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 46 Posts: 2,287	Yeap that is pretty naff Sorry I miss read your first post, you said comically poor not comical HaHa.

22 October 2001, 10:12	#5
CodyJarrett Global Moderator Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: UK Age: 46 Posts: 6,160	I've split the Afterburner stuff from this thread and moved it to Games/Problems.

22 October 2001, 18:22	#7
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	No protection scheme, BUT games designed for PAL machines wouldn't work on NTSC machines (and some games designed specifically for NTSC wouldnt work on PAL Amigas either) Since the games were programed relying heavily on the sync of the video chip's clock rate(or something like that, I'm not a big techie ), PAL games would just fuckup on NTSC machines beacuse of the different clock. Some games worked fine on both machiens, usually those that you play on your PAL meega and leave a 56 pixels border below the screen. On the C64 same stuff happened. But no specific country lockup.

23 October 2001, 19:05	#9
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	A question for you, Codetapper Let's say I take Lionheart. Can that work on an NTSC machine? I think it would die on it. Or someting like..hmmm.. dunno... a game that uses the full PAL screen resolution. There's no way you can fix that stuff... and the beam check would get screwed up because there are extra lines the thing doesn't understand, or doesn't know where to locate them.

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