Playing a PAL Dreamcast game on an NTSC (US) Dreamcast

[gavkiwi]

hey guy's, I acquired a PAL Dreamcast racing game, really want to be able to play it, but the game loads up and all I see is a rolling screen, If I had an old tv with a vertical hold switch, it would be playable, but thats old school, any way I can play this game properly on my USA DC. Would boot disc DC-X be a viable work around?

The game loads fine, I just cant make anything else out to play it

any suggestions/help would be appreciated, cheers

[Grasshopper]

That's odd. Most modern TVs that I have come across can handle PAL and NTSC signals. I thought it was mainly the older TVs that could only handle one type of signal.

One solution would be to buy a VGA adapter and hook your DC up to a VGA monitor or your TV's VGA socket (if it has one).

[gavkiwi]

yeah I thought about doing that, the  strange thing is, my TV plays PAL dvds just fine, I dont get it, I think thats what I'll do, i've been eyeing up VGA cables, got an old monitor I wanna hook it up to, Oh how I love my DC 

[northerngames]

if you have an arcade bac with a 15K arcade monitor it can be played on it also by modding the vga box.

this would enable the dreamcast to display 100% native.

[Goz]

Which game Gav?

[gavkiwi]

its 'F1 Racing championship' from 1999, based on the 1998 season I believe

I looked for an NTSC version but no joy 

[lanman31337]

If it was a downloaded game, some have a 50/60 hertz option.

[youki]

DC-X should work for you.

I use it in the other way to play US Games on my PAL Dreamcast.  But i think it works in both way.

[gavkiwi]

 , I obtained a 'version' of DC-X, just came up with that animated screen showing disc info 

burned it in both nero &  alcohol 120%, no go 

I give up 

[northerngames]

they onlt read cd-r and you may have a dc that does not read cd-r possibly or your DL was bunk.