Mod PAL PSX to output NTSC signal (Ie 60hz)?

Hate to drag this off-topic, but this has me curious after reading your description... is there actually any difference between the 'official' PAL-M and the 'unofficial' PAL60?

 

The difference is that PAL-M is a standard, and all the specs of it are more similar to NTSC than PAL.

PAL60 is a television capability. It is basically a circuit that says - aha, I've got an incoming 60Hz signal and I know what to do here! It stays as PAL, but adjusts the horizontal scan rate to stop flickering.

In simplest terms, that's what PAL60 is ;-)

 

Aaargg! PAL, NTSC and SECAM are the names of the colour TV systems - they have EVERYTHING to do with the colour!! Before that there was just 525 and 625-line (and 405-line!) television. Those names didn't exist, except for NTSC as the committee itself, maybe. In the UK and Ireland, before colour there was just the I system, and the A (405-line) system. They weren't colour, so they weren't PAL.

If you look at any references to monochrome TV or any reference to TV before colour, you will not see these names. Look at how this page refers to these, as colour systems, because they are colour systems!

"PAL" stands for Phase Alternating Line, which is a reference to how the inverted phase of the colour difference signals on alternating lines. PAL-60's still PAL - it still comforms to the PAL colour system, it's just being used on 525-line 60Hz video which is not what it was originally intended for use for and is not a broadcasting standard except for with the M system. Same goes for NTSC-50 - it's still NTSC, just 625-line NTSC.

And SECAM stands for "Séquentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire". You couldn't possibly deny that's not the name for the colour system. And SECAM's not just a different sub-carrier, it's a totally different method of transmitting colour...

 

Zilogs right, of course NTSC/PAL/SECAM are color systems NTSC is a disambiguity but the color system is what it's known for now.

NTSC is nicknamed "Never Twice the Same Color" or "Never The Same Color twice"

Edit: read these

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL