Okay I'll double check if we can play NTSC games on it and look into getting the NTSC disc. Bit annoying since I just ordered PAL one.

Yeah I can imagine emulator is better since it doesn't have the physical hardware problems. I wonder what he meant about "rips" it. How could using FDS ruin the disc? When I first read that, I got the impression he meant that it destroys HP1 in terms of making it quicker/better. It's not really fair that if our PAL version has FDS that we can't use it, as its not exactly cheating. But if a decision is made within the community that FDS is to not be accepted then I'll run without it of course. Rules are to be followed. :) I hope he does see and answer as I'm curious :)

I thought so. I think Josh has modded his PS2 but I'm not sure what it does or if it'll allow NTSC. If it does, then can I buy and play a NTSC HP1?

Oh! I didn't mean offence :P Sub 2 could be a push I reckon but a nice goal. I'll take note of the RNG and I'll get watching some vids at some point. I did see the peacock on Potterathon, that sucked haha.

So emulator is better over all due to less crashes? Does this apply to both NTSC and PAL? Ah okay, I won't use FDS until I know then. Is there anyone in particular who's "in charge" of the community or sets rules? Maybe this could be discussed as if FDS can save a good amount of time then it would be nice to use it.

Haha sorry :P I was just confirming it :P

I thought so. There's no way of modding it or anything? Can you get NTSC-U/C PS2's in the UK? I think I read somewhere that it depends on the TV? I don't know much so yeah I sound stupid I know >.<

Okay that isn't too bad then. I was worried it would be around an hour or something lol. But 10 minutes is fine, my limit was going to be 30 at max. What warrants the run as "bad"? RNG? Game/console problems? Bad runner? :P If I was a decent runner, had good RNG and no problems, what time do you think might be possible? 2:00:00? Lower?

Do you know whether a physical PAL game, aka console, is better than a PAL emulator? Is there much difference between physical/console and emulator? It varies on the leaderboard so it seems to be somewhat the same?

Yeah that's cool, thanks for the help :) I thought I'd ask about all this as Josh is always like "NO, YOU HAVE TO DO IT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, COPY THEM EXACTLY BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING IT RIGHT, YOU GOTTA BE FAST AND GOOD". >.>

EDIT: Yeah, I just spoke to Josh about this and he's still against me using PAL as he thinks its completely pointless and that I should just use NTSC. I know I should but I can't be bothered :') I prefer using the proper stuff instead of emulating. But I'll research more and think about all the possibilities. Also, something Josh has asked is does that PAL run include FDS and does the HP community even allow and use FDS? As he said some communities don't.

Hey Purple!

Thanks for responding to this. I think I understand. Basically:

NTSC-C = NTSC-U (better framerate) + PAL (better textrate) NTSC-U = better framerate but slower textrate PAL = slower framerate but faster textrate

So PAL has faster text but the game overall is slower and despite NTSC-U having slower text the game itself is faster than PAL. While NTSC-C is superior as it has the best of both framerate and textrate? I'm guessing NTSC-C can't be run on PAL PS2's so I would have to emulate it?

So basically.. it would be a waste of time using PAL? :/ Any idea on the time difference? How much slower is it compared to NTSC-U/NTSC-C? I know being fast is obviously important and the whole point, but I'm not interested in being the best. I just want to play a game I loved and played as a kid, and do it as fast as I can. Depending on how much slower PAL is, I might just use it anyway, as I'm weird like that.

Hello all!

I'm considering running Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone but just trying to clear up a few things. I have began to understand the strange things with all the different versions but it is PlayStation 1 I plan to do it on since that's what I played as a kid. I have just ordered it from eBay and of course being from the UK it's PAL. However I only just realised I didn't check what region is used. Having just checked I have found out that PAL doesn't seem to be used, like at all, only NTSC and mainly emulators. Is there a reason for this? I tried looking it up and I think I read something about how NTSC is slightly faster yet prone to crashes? Is this true? How much faster?

Thanks Kitty :)