Is this true and if so what were the problems with the PAL version Also if there were any problems with the PAL version were they ever fixed with a LIVE patchdownload, or were they fixed in the PAL XBox Classic re-release TIA.
![]() Some people seem to think we made PAL and NTSC versions incompatible either as a sneaky, half-assed method of region-locking or perhaps just because we could, and that we actually invested time and energy to cripple net play when it would have worked fine if wed left it alone. Those of you who have edited Myth maps will be familiar with the concept of tags. A programmer could come up with a better description of what tags are, but my quick and dirty laymans definition would be objects that contain andor reference game data and variables. When we started work on the PAL version, it ran much, much slower than its NTSC counterpart. Basically, Halo always assumed it was running in NTSC (updating 30 times per second) which meant that under PAL (updating 25 times per second) everything took longer. Much longer. So we had to manually adjust the tags, basically compensating for PAL slowdown by making certain things faster. ![]() Because many of the tags we changed are so fundamental to the game (the running speed of the Master Chief, for example) any NTSC-PAL Halo game would go out of sync immediately. We figured it would be less stressful for all concerned if we changed the ports used for multiplayer so PAL Xboxes would not let NTSC Xboxes into LAN games (and vice versa). At least that way no one says I can join the game, therefore there must be a way to make it work. Lets spend several frustrating hours trying to resolve the problem. Syncing the PAL tags with their NTSC counterparts is not an option; doing so would impose a 20 speed penalty on the PAL version, which wed already decided was unacceptable. I suspect dropping the PAL tags into an NTSC version of the game would result in similar speed issues. Yes, this is a less-than-ideal situation, and yes, future Bungie games will probably be less NTSC-centric.:-). Youll only ever notice it in cut scenes, doesnt make much difference to the game. You can link a 50hz 60hz PAL Halo together though, theyre both running at 50hz. We had someone with a German copy at it just didnt want to play ball. If playing around with some of the tags caused synching errors it wouldnt be out of the question for modifying the ones related to violence against humanoids to cause more.
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