Snes games : a PAL question.

Post by **insideinfo** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:48 pm

Will UK-released SNES games work on European systems? If I buy a game from England and try to play it on my European Super Nintendo console, will it work? I know Europe is all PAL but I'm asking because a NES game I once bought from the UK didn't play on my NES. And so I learned about PAL-a and PAL-b and their incompatibility.

I only recently bought a SNES and I'm scared to buy games from the UK because I suspect they are incompatible.

Post by **Faba** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:58 pm

hy,

I live in Austria and bought alot games for various consoles from UK and had never problems with them.

regards

Faba

Post by **blue_veilvet** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:21 pm

Hi,

cannot help on the specific console, but I have two UK games for my PSOne and a UK game for my sega master system, I live in Germany and they all run.

Post by **Daniel Primed** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:49 pm

Yep the should do. If you have any concerns though then as long as your SNES has coloured face buttons and a rounded design (in contrast to purple and boxy) and the games arecurved on the corners (instead of square) then you should be fine as they are PAL.

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Post by **insideinfo** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:48 am

awesome, thanks for the replys guys. ebay, here I come.

Post by **insideinfo** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:56 am

followup question: What about France? i know they have SECAM over there so do they use Pal-systems too? I sometimes see a Snes advertised as SECAM by french sellers but i suspect they're wrong. Can you play any european released game on a french nintendo system and vice versa?

Post by **Daniel Primed** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:33 am

Wow I have never heard of SECAM before, its difficulty to know if the SECAM technology affects the game carts exactly. I can't imagine that they would though, the console would just have different outputs at the back. I don't think that Nintendo would have (/gone to the effort of) altering the carts for such a minority. I mean they hardly went out of their with dcent PAL release dates.

Sorry but you'll have to do some additional research.

Post by **Niode** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:09 am

All PAL games work on all PAL consoles. It's a universal standard for PAL and compatible technologies. It's not really that hard...

Post by **insideinfo** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:38 am

Thanks again for answering my dumb questions

I've bougth mickey's magical quest and yoshi's island so far, and I'm planning on getting zelda too. any other games that i should get?

Post by **Niode** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:58 am

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2007/03/ ... games.html

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2007/02/ ... -snes.html

Have fun