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March 19, 2002 Link to this post
NTSC and PAL - no looky, no touchy
A quick reply by Matt Soell to a request for clarification of the PAL/NTSC situation ('Can they play nicely together?') turned into a veritable firestorm on several forums, here and in Europe. (Most of the unhappiness can be explained by my lack of understanding of the answer I was acting as messenger for...) Matt stepped back in tonight with a more complete answer - NTSC and PAL boxes cannot play nicely together, not because Bungie doesn't like Europeans, but because of basic speed differences between the two versions, and because of the way Halo was written. Hopefully, in the future, games (both from Bungie and from other developers) will take into account the different refresh rates of the two television standards, and allow competitors with either system to play the other... but for now, with Halo, that's just not an option. Read Matt's whole post for a more complete explanation. (Louis Wu 01:47:14 UTC)
