But I have a large library of Pal-M (my father used to work in Brazil when I was kid) cartrdiges and none of them seem to work either in my NTSC Atari 2600 or Atari 7800. The fact that the colour encoding of PAL-M and PAL/625/25 is the same does not help, as the entire signal goes through an A/D-D/A conversion process anyway.Īctually your games would work fine - your console won't work on an NTSC TV, but your games will run fine on a different console, I think PAL-M games will be identical to their NTSC equivilants as they have the same set of colours (I think a PAL-M console is just a NTSC console modified to use a different colour carrier). This is achieved using complicated circuitry involving a digital frame store, the same method used for converting between NTSC and the 625/25 standards. Conversion to/from PAL/625 lines/25 frame/s and SECAM/625/25 signals involves changing the frame rates as well as the scan lines.Frame rate and scan lines can remain untouched. Conversion to/from NTSC is easy, as only the colour carrier needs to be changed.PAL-M being a standard unique to one country, the need of to convert it to/from other standards often arises. Below is an excerpt from Wikepidia related to the PAL-M tv and broadcast system: None of my PAL-M (M is for the specific brazilian PAL system which borderlines the NTSC system) games would play in a NTSC console.
