PAL 60Hz Question.

I recently borrowed a dreamcast and I was amazed at how many games had a option to run the game at 60Hz.

Anyone got any idea as to what UK games will have this 60Hz options ?

Will Red Faction have it ?

What about GT3 ?

I know Fur Fighters will have this option as it is mentioned on the PSW DVD.

DOA2 already has this option.

It can\'t be too hard to add the option into games and it does get rid of boarders and adds a little bit of speed to our games.

Well, it all depends on what you want to know.

The JAP PS2 can translate a PAL signal, even though it is a NTSC machine.

R2RB2 has a 60 HRZ option, and GT3 \'should\'. From what Iv\'e heard...

do you guys really notice the difference between 50hz and 60hz? Is it the framerate or something, because I know that the pal TTT was bad because of slowdown etc

It makes everything run 17.5% quicker, the code, graphics routines, everything. i cant go into it in detail
as i\'m not that clued up on 50Hz vs 60Hz but you will notice a big difference

how do you change it

Yeah its 17.5% faster.

Also by running in 60Hz we get a full screen image.

Tekken didn\'t have any slowdown and ran completely smooth its just its slower than the NTSC counterparts. I haven\'t played the NTSC version but apparently if you do you wouldn\'t want to touch the PAL version.

Bozco: To change it you need the game to have the option. Normally if the game has the option of changing the play mode it will appear whilst the game is loading, allowing you to select the desired mode being either 50Hz (can play on any television) or 60Hz (generally newer televisions).

On the offical PS2 mag this month you get a playable demo of sky oddsey,and you have the option to switch it from 50 Hz to 60 Hz.
You do notice a big difference when you have 60 Hz selected,everything is smoother.

what games out right now have it?

i remember when i played the jap version of tekken 3, you dont actually relise how slow the pal one is untill you have played a ntsc game.

Bozco: DOA2 is the only game i know of which has the 50/60 Hz option in the uk

Originally posted by Ethan_Hunt
On the offical PS2 mag this month you get a playable demo of sky oddsey,and you have the option to switch it from 50 Hz to 60 Hz.
You do notice a big difference when you have 60 Hz selected,everything is smoother.

That probably mean the real game has this option too, I can\'t see them programming it for the demo only, unless its something OPS2 did which I doubt it.

This is good news for me esp since I was thinking of getting this game

50HZ can also be great when the framerate is high

The thing that gets me at the moment is that my TV does not support 60Hz,so i am going to buy a sony wega,when i get off of holiday,bacause i think gt3 has 60 mode in it.

Another thing to note is my old downstairs TV which only has composite scart can play 60Hz mode. I will however be playing it on my portable with RGB scart.

Cool info again Ethan, on the 60Hz switch. It\'s just another reason to pick this game up.
It would be nice tho\' to see Sony incorporate this option into all it\'s future titles.
Bring 60Hz to all games sony @:0)

Um, someone fill me in here. First of all I didn\'t even know you could do that(even on some games). Second of all doesn\'t 60hz suck(but I\'m thinking in PC terms here). And third of all if 60hz is so much better why aren\'t games defaulted to it?