Change DC's color system
Okay, I am fed up with my PAL-M Dreamcast!
(for those who don't know, PAL-M is simply NTSC resolution, 60Hz and PAL color encoding)
I need a way to get my DC back into NTSC colors, so some certain games should detect it properly as 60Hz and run properly instead of turning my TV into a greenish flickering mess.
<silly story>
I had a nightmare in the past, trying to get Ikaruga to work on it. The darned game seems to use the color system for detecting the region, and always booted up in 50Hz on me.
Of course PAL-M TVs, being 60Hz, don't know WTF to do with a 50Hz signal, and it screwed up. I got lucky to find a patch that forced the game into NTSC (well, a backup version of it, actually).
Now the same problem comes back with Border Down (only on shmups? damn!), and I recently strumbled over the chance to get myself an original copy of Ikaruga (yay!), and I want to play it.
Plus seems neither the GameShark nor the Utopia disc (version 1.0, tough) are capable of forcing Ikaruga into 60Hz (couldn't test the Gameshark on Border Down, since mine was destroyed a while ago).
</silly story>
Is it even possible? Do I need to replace my BIOS or something? Or a bit of soldering in the right place can solve it?
Okay, I am fed up with my PAL-M Dreamcast!
(for those who don't know, PAL-M is simply NTSC resolution, 60Hz and PAL color encoding)
I need a way to get my DC back into NTSC colors, so some certain games should detect it properly as 60Hz and run properly instead of turning my TV into a greenish flickering mess.
<silly story>
I had a nightmare in the past, trying to get Ikaruga to work on it. The darned game seems to use the color system for detecting the region, and always booted up in 50Hz on me.
Of course PAL-M TVs, being 60Hz, don't know WTF to do with a 50Hz signal, and it screwed up. I got lucky to find a patch that forced the game into NTSC (well, a backup version of it, actually).
Now the same problem comes back with Border Down (only on shmups? damn!), and I recently strumbled over the chance to get myself an original copy of Ikaruga (yay!), and I want to play it.
Plus seems neither the GameShark nor the Utopia disc (version 1.0, tough) are capable of forcing Ikaruga into 60Hz (couldn't test the Gameshark on Border Down, since mine was destroyed a while ago).
</silly story>
Is it even possible? Do I need to replace my BIOS or something? Or a bit of soldering in the right place can solve it?