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Re: Softlist roms - Why have split/merged at all?
07/12/16 04:59 AM
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> > I think Software Lists games parents should be the USA/Japan one, because games are
> > in 60Hz contrary to Eur games which are generally 50Hz.
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> that's debatable.
> for instance, portable consoles have no difference in their refresh rate across
> regions, so we can apply the arcade reasoning.
> also, Commodore and Sinclair home computers had most games thought for PAL TVs, so
> that you get the intended behavior only with 50Hz
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> since there is no universal solution, I just prefer to stick to MAME convention by
> labelling Euro releases as parent, since it just works in many cases.
Not only that, but most European releases are later versions anyway, as they always seem to take a year or two longer to come out after the Japanese and US versions.
For instance the PAL version of Mega Man 2 fixed the boss-room-to-garbled-unbeatable-Wily-stage glitch, and had a 1989 copyright (not 1988/1989, unlike the US version, or 1988 only in the Japanese version). Mega Man 3 also had the second controller "tricks" removed, which were clearly only there for testing purposes but the game was released untouched due to being Christmas-rushed (but sadly they didn't fix the 60Hz-specific timing against the Wily Machine on the PAL version, so the screen jumps up and down erratically at 50Hz).
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