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shadowprophet
June 6th, 2007, 07:14
I found this interesting pic, I thought I might share it with you guys.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1794/800pxntscpalsecamsvgdy7.png

The yellow region is PAL, "They still don't have an official release of chrono trigger"
:rolleyes:
SnesR0X
June 6th, 2007, 07:24
interesting to see the parts that sort of look like they're saying
"Screw being Pal, I'll be NTSC for some reason"
splodger15
June 6th, 2007, 08:43
WTF is Secam
shadowprophet
June 6th, 2007, 08:46
WTF is Secam
Thats the same question I asked when I first saw this pic.
I had never heard of that region either :rolleyes:
BoneyCork
June 6th, 2007, 09:19
That map represents television broadcast standards, and has very little to do with videogame regions.

Europe would of always been a seperate videogame region regardless of what video format is the standard, in much the same way Japan and the US are seperate regions even though they both use NTSC.
quzar
June 6th, 2007, 10:38
Yea, it's also a very general map and slightly outdated/more historic, as afaik, the USSR no longer uses SECAM ;)
Kramer
June 6th, 2007, 12:11
That map represents television broadcast standards, and has very little to do with videogame regions.

Europe would of always been a seperate videogame region regardless of what video format is the standard, in much the same way Japan and the US are seperate regions even though they both use NTSC.

Yeah but Japans is called NTSC-J;)
VampDude
June 6th, 2007, 12:38
A good few countries of Europe uses SECAM, my Dreamcast's SCART cable is SECAM for some reason...

...But I bought it from someone off eBay in the Netherlands, some PAL TV's don't even support a SECAM signal the picture comes out black and white like when trying to use a NTSC signaled cable - Luckily I don't have that problem, I think SECAM might be NTSC thou as Japan used to be SECAM and now they're NTSC-J :D

So...

...SECAM = NTSC, which means the picture is wrong by the yellow PAL/SECAM section as PAL isn't SECAM so PAL should've had it's own colour!
quzar
June 6th, 2007, 16:18
There is no such broadcast standard as NTSC-J. A japanese and american TV will be using the same signals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECAM

Like I said, SECAM has been replaced by PAL ;)
S34MU5
June 6th, 2007, 16:21
still a interesting map
VampDude
June 6th, 2007, 17:22
There is no such broadcast standard as NTSC-J. A japanese and american TV will be using the same signals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECAM

Like I said, SECAM has been replaced by PAL ;)

SECAM is just a cheap imitation of NTSC then! :D