How do you get a game thats 60Hz to 50Hz?

[Oalboukharey]

How do you get a game thats 60Hz to 50Hz? Is there a boot disc or something like that? cause i have a japanese game, and my bigger TV doesnt support 60Hz.

[ShadowDancer]

There are patches and ntsc/pal selectors for games that you can try out... dont know if it's legal or not.

[Cid Highwind]

I don't think there is a way, unless there are patches that will do this, otherwise I think it's all hard coded and difficult to pull off.

[Kazuya]

There was a ntsc/pal convertor somewhere but i can't seem to find it. Bad thing is you'll need to select what part of the image you want to lose if you are converting to ntsc and the game will be slower if you convert it to pal.

[hushypushy]

first result on lik-sang... (http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=26&products_id=1686&)but i dunno, doesnt really seem worth it. get a better TV :p

[Cid Highwind]

I'm curious, how old is that tv?

[Samor]

there's a pretty good patcher out there; only works on backups, of course.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/megalexxx/

(seems like a legal site to me)

[Oalboukharey]

well, i think (as far i can remember) it was bought in the mid 90's. Its a Sony TV and with the TV, there was a sticker on it saying 'Super Trinitron'.

[Cid Highwind]

I can see the error in your ways, can you? :p

[Samor]

Cid, Cid...you really should stop this fanboyism and get a really good console ;)

[Oalboukharey]

No i dont. ohhh please Cid.. please tell me.

Pretty Please?

[Cid Highwind]

Cid, Cid...you really should stop this fanboyism and get a really good console ;)
hehe, well I already have one and I'm waiting for a new one to be released. And My bro might get himself a PS2 so I might sneak in his room and play a game when he's not home, or get some fun multiplayer games.

@Oalboukharey: Read Samor's post closely, take a look at the smiley I used, and you might figure out what I meant. Hint: It's in the 'S' word ;)

ps. I was just joking around a bit, and on a serious note, mid 90's tv's might just be the ones that are 50hertz only. I've got a tv from '97 and it accepts every 60hz signal I throw at it :)

[Samor]

a revolution eh?
You shouldn't pick consoles that are destined to fail ;)

[Cid Highwind]

If it gives me the gaming satisfaction I am looking for I don't care whatever console I buy, even if it's one people have been claiming it being dead for years ;)

[Oalboukharey]

Well, i have an original japanese game that runs on 60Hz. Isnt there a way to make it play at 50Hz? like a boot disc that will boot the game to 50Hz or something like that?

[hushypushy]

no (and i already answered it in your other thread).

basically, since your TV blows, you are SOL. if the game itself doesn't support a 50/60 hz switch (my friend had a game that did that on DC oO dunno if that was a legal one or not..) and your TV doesnt support 60hz....there is really nothing you can do except:

1. don't play this game.
2. get a new TV.

[Oalboukharey]

basically, it would give me a flickering image.

By using a AV cable instead of a RF cale, would that help at all?

[Samor]

that's weird... AFAIK original japanese games would normally boot in PAL mode anyways (and that's when using a bootdisc in a PAL DreamCast)

[Oalboukharey]

Ok! for now, forget about the Hz of the games and the DC! i have a big problem here!

i got the Utopia Boot Disk v1.2, i used this disc to help boot my japanese game. once i putted the boot disk and swapped it with the original game and as it seems to have booted up, all i get is a black screen! the disc is abit scratched up, but due fro the seller, he says it works perfectly fine.

Can anyone here help me?

[Samor]

yes, use the gameshark cd-x demo bootcd instead; it might work better. Cid pointed me to this, as the Utopia disc is actually more catered towards booting warez, and the cd-x is meant as a cheating device for original games. It's a demo of the commercially released Gameshark cd for Dreamcast.
It's a little tricky to find though....

[Oalboukharey]

thanks i got it working now. but of course, i get a flickering picture.

for some reason, my older smaller tv can handle 60hz where as the newer bigger one doesnt.

i really need to find a way to get my Dreamcast to change the signal of the game's Hz that its receiving from.

[Katsuya]

Why don’t you just get a DC VGA box and hook it up to a computer monitor? then you can play 60Hz games.

[Oalboukharey]

ummmmm. no thanks. i would prefer my 27inch TV screen than my 17inch moniter.

Well, isnt there like a DC signal box that can help change the signal? the japanese game doesnt have a signal changer like us UK PAL games. (We Rule!).