Did you grow up with PAL or NTSC Sonic?

Me, I am growing up here in North America, so, obviously NTSC. And I find playing Sonic games better on NTSC than PAL, because I'm not used to the slowness of PAL.

 

I think they were 60hz for me, 50hz only kicked in with the Gems Collection final boss replays.

 

Ah, nostalgia. The slower, classier(?) tunes in the 50HZ version is my most preferred soundtrack in the series.

 

I grew up with the 50HZ PAL Sonic, such awesome memories come to mind..

 

NTSC Sonic. Since I'm used to the normal music, I find the 50Hz music to be just too slow, though I have yet to play the PAL 50Hz version of Sonic 1.

 

PAL but since I started with S3&K, it made no difference. Then my parents opted to buy me a Saturn at launch and later I got Sonic Jam, which runs at 60Hz. Only later, when I bought the carts for the MD did I notice that yeah, it was slower.

At least we have superior Sonic 1 covers. :P

 

France, so I grew up with 50 Hz Sonic. That's why I don't like all the speed in the new sonic games

 

Oh god no! It's basically NTSC with the PAL color encoding. =P

(You can play NTSC games on PAL-M TVs they'll just appear grayscale)

I'm a PAL-M guy, it's better than NTSC (It's 60hz with better colors) =D.

 

Please, post your comparison results.

 

As far as I remember, on the XBOX version the only game that was affected by bad speed was Sonic 1, however that might have been because the version had support for 60Hz and 50Hz.

 

I agree with that logic right there, have you ever slowed down a tune and listen to it and thought.. "Hmm that sounds pretty damn decent"..?

 

I had a PAL MD2 Originally, now I have a PAL MD1, So yes, I get the 50Hz awesome that is Down-tempo Sonic 1 Music. Gameplay-wise from experience, both Sonic 1 & 2 had slower gameplay, but Sonic 2 Had correct music.
When I first played 60Hz through Dos Emulation, damn, this was some time ago.. Was amazed at how different gameplay became.

50 Hz is amazing for exploring and all out platrforming, 60 Hz, is good for speedruns.

I'm fine with both, but love the 50Hz Sonic 1 soundtrack.

 

Only had a Master System II as a kid. Not sure how the trouble in terms of NTSC-to-PAL-conversion was back then, if there even was any for those games. I just remember them being fun. xD;

 

PAL for me, since I got Sonic 2 first I always wondered why the Sonic themes played slower on the first game (though for some reason I like Labyrinth in slower pace). It's funny the Master System games were the same, only Sonic 1 didn't have the music fix for PAL versions.

I have PAL PS2 Mega Collection Plus and the games seem to play the original speed they did in that region's Megadrive, though Mean Bean Machine and Spinball seem to chug a little. None of the emulations in Gems were PAL refined though (nothing in that compilation was) and so they all have that Sonic 1 type slowdown.

 

I agree, Green Hill Zone is goddamn sublime in 50Hz. The music that is, the rest of the game is horrible. That's one of the reasons I think so negatively of Sonic 1 - bad memories. Before I knew about all that frame-rate stuff, I just thought it was ridiculously slow for a game that apparently was focused on "speed". Seeing as Sonic 2, the other MD Sonic game I had, was optimized for speed, I was much fonder of it.
Why wasn't Sonic 1 optimized anyway? I thought Sega had planned to use Sonic as a mascot from the start, why not speed up a game they had such faith in?

 

Maybe it was already doing well we

Hrm. They were all released basically the same time. Japan's was actually later. Forgot about that.

..Fuck if I know. They just don't like Brits. :v:

 

Fixed. There's more to the PAL-Region than the UK.

 

It still is... to me D:

I think I only got there once.