Play European PAL Playstation 1 Games in America ?

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  1. someguy1

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    Is there a way to get European/PAL Playstation games to play on a modded American Playstation ?

    Many of these European releases use English as the main language making it more playable by residents in North America.
     
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    I remember having issues with it over Composite when I was younger, hooking up through RGB SCART should work for it though, you'd just need a way to display that onto an American TV.

    I'm sure there are other solutions around here.
     
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    Mord.Fustang My goodness, it's nipley out!

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    Thanks guys, skyway told me in the chat to use Import Player Light 2.1 US , downloaded and copied onto a CD-R, Now playing PAL on my Canadian/American PS1. If any of you want to try it remember that after the game starts the screen may be positioned slightly off the screen (this can be fixed by holding L1+L2+R1+R2 & use the directional buttons D-PAD to move the screen around untill it is square and in the middle )

    Thanks and hope this helps others!
     
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    Mord.Fustang My goodness, it's nipley out!

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    Cool, glad you got it working!
     
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    Thought I'd chime in with this real quick as I got curious...

    I recently acquired a PSOne screen so I thought I'd see if it could handle PAL games straight off the cuff. Nope.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BINXh8pAO3v/

    Although the modchip seems to be doing the job just fine! If you look closely the text screen says "Sony Computer Entertainment Europe" on boot but right underneath says "SCEA" ;P
     
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    Some of the 3rd party screens were PAL/NTSC - but the official Sony one would only work at either 50 or 60 depending on which version you had. The rather surprising thing was that it wasn't just the electronics that was different - the actual display panel was a different model between the PAL and NTSC variants, too. If you swapped the PAL control board onto a NTSC panel, it would lock at 50Hz, but about the bottom 15% of the screen was clipped - the other way around it would work at 60Hz but with a black bar at the bottom of the screen and a squashed aspect ratio.
     
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    Yep, I figured so but also wanted to double check!

    Although I do have a boot disc around here with NTSC/PAL capabilities so if you pop that in and force it to NTSC it works, aside from the screen with you have to adjust. Was mostly curious to see if the screen would handle 50Hz or not.
     
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