Games which automatically adjust their music tempo PAL/NTSC

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Games which automatically adjust their music tempo PAL/NTSC
by mark_k on 2009-05-10 (#46702)

Hi,

I was playing Super Turrican yesterday (on an emulator, though I do own the original cart), and noticed that the music tempo remained pretty much the same when played on NTSC and PAL consoles.

So obviously that game detects the console type and adjusts accordingly. Are there any other NES games which do that?

-- M

by frantik on 2009-05-11 (#46711)

not a game but I did that in my rickroll demo: http://nesdev.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=4965

by tepples on 2009-05-11 (#46716)

Speculation as to why this might be uncommon:

On the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 consoles, a game's publisher can opt out of region coding, unlike on any Nintendo console. So shipping one binary that runs fine on PAL and NTSC consoles isn't as critical on the NES as on the newer systems.