Patching a PAL PS1 game for NTSC?

[DJ_Izumi]

I recently got my hands on 'Oh! Bakkyuuun' also known as 'Ghoul Panic' in Europe for PS1.  For those who never heard of it, this game seems to take a lot from the Point Blank series as it's from Namco as well.  It features a pair of anthropomorphic cats with guns going through a haunted house.  Stages are all similar challenges like you'd see in Point Blank except the stages are rendered in 3D and sometimes the camera even moves a bit, rail shooter style.

Simply put, it's cute and so far it's fun.  It's Point Bankish so it must be fun, right?

Since I do anime and gaming events, I tend to lug out my many light guns and do game setups.  I'd like to try and feature this game but I have two issues.  1) The Japanese version is in Japanese and thusly not the most approachable.  Most should be able to grope though the Japanese to play the game but I'd prefer English.  2) As it was only releasedin Europe, that means PAL only.  While my modded PS1 can run PAL games, it dumps a PAL signal which isn't terribly helpful as I'm in Canada and ALL our TVs run NTSC.

So what I'm asking is, is there a way to reliably patch a European PAL PS1 game to generate an NTSC signal on a PS1?

[ahofle]

Which modchip do you have?  I know the Matrix Infinity allows you to force PAL games to NTSC (a bit of the top and bottom are cut off though). 

[DJ_Izumi]

I have no idea.  =D  I bought this PS1 off a friend for $10.  I doubt he has any idea what's inside it either.  He said that when he got it modded, he took it to some Chinese owned store that sold bootlegged DVDs and games and they modded it in the back

[BradC]

I think I got rid of all my PS1 apps once I modded my PS2 (several years ago.) I know that there was a sort of "boot disc" that could force PAL games into NTSC mode (and vice versa). You might try googling PS1 NTSC boot disc or something like that, and see what comes up.

[NickG]

Patches live here(link) They do have Ghoul Panic.
There may also be general iso patching/rebuilding instructions somewhere on that site.

[DJ_Izumi]

That patch works similar to another NTSC patch I tried.

1) It breaks the music in attract and game mode (but not the options menu)
2) The image gets vertially stretched out and even by adjusting the screen, the information like time, life and ammunition gets cut off by the TV.

I think I'm going with the Japanese NTSC release and then emulating the EU release to make screen shoots and make a 'guide poster' that tells the players what the main screens are in English.