The slim flat screen design and Ultra-HD resolution of this TV provide a lifelike viewing experience for gaming, movies, TV, streaming media and more. ![]() The multisystem Samsung UA60KU6000 is an excellent choice for your 4K home theater. ![]() World-wide Dual Voltage 110-240 volts 50-60 hertz Samsung 60" UA60KU6000 Multi-System 4K Ultra-HD LED Smart TV 110-220 VOLTS NTSC-PAL Streaming Media & Apps (Netflix, Hulu, Pandora and more) PAL BG/PAL I/Secam BG, DK/ PAL DK TV Tuners Worldwide Voltage (works with 110 to 240 volts While SMB was written late enough in the Famicom's history that programmers shouldn't have made a mistake like reducing note durations in software because they expected the player to run at 48Hz rather than 60Hz, but then left the APU configured to count 60 times/second, but it's plausible that they might have erred in such a fashion.4k Ultra-HD Resolution (3840 x 2160 pixels) If SMB uses that rather than video frames to control music timing, the music should play at a consistent speed on both NTSC and PAL machines if it is programmed identically. In the PAL version, blocks move once every frame starting at level 19, which is a 20% slower than the NTSC level 29 speed, but 1.67 times as fast as the NTSC level 19 speed.Īnother interesting wrinkle is that the Audio Processing Unit has a configurable "frame counter" that counts once every 4 or 5 pulses of a roughly-240Hz signal. In the NTSC version, blocks move once every two frames on levels 19 through 28, and then once every frame on levels past 29. Perhaps one of the more notable times this occurred was with NES Tetris. ![]() Although some games could accommodate fractional-pixel distances or count fractional frames (so an action which is supposed to take 2.5 frames would hapeen twice every five frames, alternating between taking 2 and 3 frames), many games simply rounded durations up or down, sometimes a bit arbitrarily. Some games did this, but other games adjusted the amount of distance objects could move per frame or reduced the number of frames required to perform various actions. Porting a game to PAL while making all actions take the same number of frames would cause the game to perform 20% slower than with NTSC. This is a PAL game on a PAL console, yet still has faster music than the NTSC version on an NTSC console. It's important to emphasize that I'm not talking about running an NTSC game on a PAL console or a PAL game on an NTSC console, so that's not the reason it sounds faster. Nevertheless, Nintendo did go through the trouble to "optimize" the game for PAL after they had made the original NTSC-J and NTSC-USA versions, so why did they (apparently) have the music still play at a noticeably faster pace? In fact, this is the most probable explanation IMO. It might very well be that the game does play with faster music on the PAL version, and my memories have just been muddled up over the years from hearing the song played on NTSC NES consoles, or NTSC emulators/ROMs. I then spent many hours trying numerous different ROMs of the game from different sources, and trying to hunt down gameplay footage on YouTube of a real PAL NES playing the PAL version of the game, but the latter proved seemingly impossible and none of the ROMs seemed to play the game at the "correct" speed.īut since it's about 30 years since I actually got my NES for my birthday with the game, and both are sadly long gone, I cannot rely on my memory for this. However, all the other games seemed to run at the correct speed. I immediately suspected that either this was a mislabeled NTSC ROM, or the EverDrive was somehow messing with it. ![]() The music that played seemed to go too fast. Skipping a long story about the hardships of finding non-garbage ROM collections, I placed the PAL version of Super Mario Bros., among others, on the EverDrive and ran it as the first game. I bought an EverDrive cartridge for it because I'm a poor person who cannot afford to actually collect original video games cartridges, even though I would obviously vastly prefer to be able to do so, just for the feeling of switching cartridges and whatnot. I have a real PAL NES hooked up to a modern TV with an AV-to-HDMI adapter (yeah, I'm working on finding a CRT).
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