HELP!? Can you play EU PAL games on US NTSC ?

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HELP!? Can you play EU PAL games on US NTSC ?

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Ive seen shenmue 2 for dc on various sites for a reasonable price, They are from europe and are in tha PAL format. does anyone know If this would work on my US NTSC dreamcast? or what i would need to make it work. if there is a boot cd or something.
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Post by Smiley »

You would either need a mod chip,or an import enabler.

Lying Wake has a link to a cdx download that should work....

I think lw's link is to consolevision.com, or something....
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Post by melancholy »

I don't know about Shenmue 2, but I know that my Headhunter disc boots fine with the Utopia disc.
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Post by Matisfaction »

Shenmue 2 works fine with Utopia i think (Well it did on mu buddies Jap Dreamcast).

BTW Most PAL games have a 50htz - 60htz option.
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Post by Segata Sanshiro »

Options:
- Google for utopia and burn to a CD (if you're using VGA BOX it gets a little tricky to make it work)
- some say that CDX demo works well and its legal
- Buy a legal import boot CD, works a little better than utopia (VGA support)
- Install a mod chip, i did that to 4 of my DC's and its really comfortable not having to swap disks all the time (mod chip works with original games only)

If you dont have one yet buy a VGA BOX Shenmue 2 will look better than what you can imagine.
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Post by doragasu »

Just buy a DC-X boot CD. It's the boot CD with the highest compatibility (I haven't heard of games that don't work with it), supports VGA BOX and has nice options that let you force the video mode you want the game to use.

Don't mix up DC-X and CDX, they are different things. To boot imports, the right choice is DC-X.
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thank you all, i believe you have answered my question
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Post by DeeMON »

Utopia boot disc will run PAL games on US DC!!!!!!!! woohoo! thank you!!!!!
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http://www.consolevision.com/members/fa ... orts.shtml

You can also use DCHakker to boot your imports.
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