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EverDrive 64 / Re: Legend of Zelda OoT/MQ & MM - Gamecube to N64 patches (with fixes/decensorship)
« on: April 02, 2020, 05:23 PM »My curiousity awakened. PAL GameCube games usually had a boot option to select 50 or 60Hz. Doesn't that falsify the statement that everything was 60Hz? And I recall a youtube comparison vid of Ocarina of Time (not sure if it was the N64 or GC version, dunno if it would matter) showing NTSC-J, NTSC-U and PAL next to eachother. PAL-60 was still slower. And I think NTSC-J was even slightly faster than NTSC-U, but not entirely sure anymore.Hi there,
I'm trying to run Master Quest on my original PAL hardware using a retroblaster (not an everdrive).
While the game runs, there are several issues:
- The game runs at a higher speed
- The colors are oversaturated
- The music and sounds play to fast and stutters
With this version of the patch and no other patches apart from that:
Legend of Zelda, The - Ocarina of Time - Master Quest (Europe) (GameCube Edition) [60 Hz] - GCto1.0 v09.09.2019
I tried changing the header from NZLE to NZLP but to no effect. It seems the user geriatrix voiced similiar issues on October 26, 2016 (Reply 103). Using an emulator, the game runs fine with no issues at all.
The ROM I'm using is the euopean version of Master Quest from the Ocarina of Time double Pack in the Wind Waker Special Edition and has been ripped using my Wii. But I feel that the problems lie at a diffrerent place.
Does anybody have an idea why this is occuring and how to fix that?
All of the GameCube releases (PAL, NTSC-J, NTSC-U) are at 60MHz, so NTSC. They would require some massive rewiring to get them to run on PAL systems. That is all on Nintendo though. I think the most recent version of OoT that will run on a PAL system is currently the PAL v1.1 cart release (AKA PAL rev. A). No version of Ocarina of Time since then has been made to run on a PAL system.
So even if you loaded up the original, unpatched PAL Master Quest rom would not run on a PAL system.
EDIT:
This could've been the vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzCvyNKKZeg
EDIT 2:
Ah, just saw a video showing PAL GC Zelda "This game supports 60Hz mode only".