Hi Guys,

So I just wanted to see if anyone had some decent knowledge between the difference between PAL and NTSC versions of 16bit era games (Sega Megadrive/SNES)

I am a huge video game collector and I pretty much own every commerical PAL release for the Megadrive and I would love to start doing some sort of series where I do speed runs of the megadrive games and give the SEGA brand some much needed love.

However... Most of my collection is PAL. In recent speed running routing I got a NTSC and PAL copy of "The Terminator" for the Sega Megadrive. Doing the same run, same route (Pretty much identical) The PAL version of the game was on average around 4 minutes slower than the NTSC version.

There are some other noticeable differences like the in game music. The Music in the NTSC is much faster than the PAL and it seems that the overall speed of the game is around x1.5 the speed of PAL.

Now... Is this going to be the case with most 16 bit games? Do NTSC versions run slightly faster than PAL? Or is this a one off? I want to be able to set some competitive times for the games and much rather running it through the hardware than an emulator and rather use my PAL copies instead of everdrive roms.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Hey! Couldn't think of a decent introduction thread title which wasn't Hi. or Hello. so deal with it :)

I'm Swingflip and I speedrun games. I used to focus more in game development and making video games but always been a long time support of GDQ and watching speed runs so I started up last year.

I currently Run 4 games across the Sega MegaDrive, Sega CD, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, I also hold a few WR times in games. I am also a long time video game collector, my main collection is Sega Megadrive and I almost have every commercial PAL release for the Megadrive.

I am interested in running some Sega Megadrive/Genesis games as I believe there isn't enough love for the Sega.

I recently brought a house and moving in a week so once I moved and properly set up my consoles and rig I will be doing a lot of original hardware speed runs and going through the collection.

My twitch is at twitch.tv/swingflip2014 if you are interested. If you could give me a follow that would be good. :) It just gives validity to your account.

Anyway... Hi guys! :)

Swing

Hey can you add me as a mod please and add in the Co-op Any% Category please.

Hey can you add me as a mod please and add in the Co-op Any% Category please.

Hey I finished up my Sega CD run of the Terminator and I put in a request for the game on speedrun.com can you remove the versions apart from SegaGenesis from this game as the rest are completely different games.

Hey I finished up my Sega CD run of the Terminator and I put in a request for the game on speedrun.com can you remove the versions apart from SegaGenesis from this game as the rest are completely different games.

Hey guys, this is for people like me who have a crap ton of consoles to hook up and I am just wondering what people do and would recommend...

At the moment I got my 4k 50inch HD tv hooked up to the:

Mega Drive, Master System, Mega CD, Saturn, Dreamcast, Snes, NES, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Blu Ray Player, Wii, Wii U, spectrum and N64.

I run most of the console through AV to my sound mixer which has 12 av input and connect the mixer to the TV via AV.

The rest of the HDMI consoles I hook up to a automatic HDMI switcher.

I then run my capture card (mainly the HDMI consoles at the moment) from the HDMI switch to the Roxio Pro HD card straight into the TV.

On top of this I got 7.1 hooked up in the back of the mixer so as you can imagine its a fucking nightmare! It takes about 3 hours to plug everything in and it's a bloody nightmare.

I am wondering if anybody has a similar issue and if so what they did to make it more manageable? Also my HD TV only has 2 HDMI ports in the back and I am running my capture card through the HDMI switch, would this make any difference on the quality of the capture?

Thanks for the heads up. :)

Hi so I was wanting to run some more obscure games for the Sega Genesis/Sega CD and I was just wondering how you go about getting these games added to speedrun.com ?

Hi the Sega CD version of The Terminator is vastly different from the genesis and is a different game. I was planning on doing some runs of the Sega CD Terminator game. I don't know how adding a new game works etc. But if you could remove the megaCD version from this and add a new one with myself as a mod that would be good.

Thanks

So I recently been messing around with some games I haven't played in ages and I recently started to play Gears of War 3 again. Then it came to me...It would be really cool to speed run GoW3 Horde 1-50 waves on different levels. There is a good mix of skill, R and G and luck involved and it also has a built in in-game timer making timing Horde runs really easy.

From what I can tell there is no real speedruns of GoW3 or to be more specific Horde speedruns. So I thought I would start the ball rolling and hopefully some other people might join in as it's a fun run to do.

Gears of War 3 - Mercy Horde 50 wave Speed Run - 1:46:26 - 28/05/2015 http://www.twitch.tv/swingflip2014/c/6756818 (sorry sounds fucked)

Gears of War 3 - Overpass Horde 50 wave Speed Run - 2:04:41 - 24/05/2015

Also I would be interested in doing a Insane story play through with someone or a group of people (Insane difficulty = almost 1 hit kill with everything and instant death)

I just wondered what peoples thoughts are on this as I am wanting to set some times for different levels within GoW3 Horde.

If you want to know more about GoW3 Horde mode click here: http://gearsofwar.wikia.com/wiki/Horde_2.0

Can you add me as a mod please mate and add the co-op any% so we can up our 1:29 co op run.