NTSC, etc

[Doc]

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[Doc]

I really don't think there is a way to tell...a PAL Famicom is easy to tell, but that's it really...

[Stan]

All you need to know is that anything from Japan is NTSC.  Anything from the rest of Asia is PAL except South Korea.

[JC]

What I'm having trouble with is looking at the cart or game and telling which it is. I buy games from Hong Kong every once in a while and sometimes the seller says "Japan Import" and sometimes the seller says nothing. Just wondering if there is another way to tell other than geography. I guess it wouldn't matter much if there's no lockout chip, right?

[Stan]

Yeah, shouldn't matter.  I don't know of any way to tell.

[Doc]

That's why I rarely buy games from eBay, you never know if it's a PAL version or not anymore.