Dragaera

I just had a thought

Wed Dec 18 09:22:35 PST 2002

Matthew Hunter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:25:02AM -0600, Gametech
> <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> PAL is a slightly better resolution to my knowledge NTSC is like 240
>> x 320 (I think) but I don't know exactly how using the better
>> resolution system would interact, I could assume it's either scale
>> or get a little skewed.
>
> 320x200 vs 320x256, IIRC.
>
> As far as I know, they won't play at all -- no scaling or
> skewing, just a non-functional tape.

Yeah, it looks like you are right.
And after looking into it a bit more it's not the Ntsc standard that makes a
resolution of 320x 240, that is a common VHS resolution, the tape isn't
capable of storing more lines of vertical resolution.