RegionCodeTable
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It was after using this in a page (OutRun 2019) that I realised that actually, perhaps we can combine the region locking and PAL optimisation stuff together. Although I'm not sure how to do it cleanly.
The other thing, and it's only because I'm slightly strange, is that it might be... "nice" to actually show the lock-out screens somewhere.
e.g.
Because I bet there's some weird ones. Also I'd quite like to show how broken Super Skidmarks gets when you try and play it in an NTSC machine -Black Squirrel (talk) 11:49, 19 May 2018 (CDT)
Perhaps this is better
| NTSC-J ROM | ||
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| NTSC-J console | NTSC-U console | PAL console |
| Works as expected. | idk - I could only find a trained ROM | idk - I could only find a trained ROM |
| NTSC-U ROM | ||
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| NTSC-J console | NTSC-U console | PAL console |
| Locked. | Works as expected. | Locked. |
| PAL ROM | ||
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| NTSC-J console | NTSC-U console | PAL console |
| Locked. | Locked. | Music is optimised and game displays in 320x240 mode, but game runs slower. |
CHOICES CHOICES:
- Ecco: The Tides of Time/Region encoding
- Ecco: The Tides of Time/Technical information/Region encoding
- Ecco: The Tides of Time/Comparisons/Region encoding
aka will we ever find a game that does really weird stuff if it detects the wrong region, like the copy protection in Earthbound where it spawns more enemies?
-Black Squirrel (talk) 13:02, 19 May 2018 (CDT)
Dreamcast
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There are six language options on the Dreamcast that can change how a game looks and runs. Things also happen if you bypass the region lock.
I don't know if this is more "language coding" than "region coding", but ehh. 50Hz/60Hz gubbins is something else to deal with, but perhaps needs a separate template.
NTSC-J output
 JP
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 EN
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 FR
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 DE
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 ES
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 IT
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Non-standard support | Comments | |
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| NTSC-J disc |
Translated. |
Partially translated. |
Not translated. |
  PT NL |
Can be changed in options menu. | |||
| NTSC-U disc | ||||||||
| PAL disc |
NTSC-U output
| Japanese | English | French | German | Spanish | Italian | Non-standard support | Comments | |
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| NTSC-J disc | Portuguese Dutch |
Flags might be bad. Especially if we find Esperanto is an option (it won't be). | ||||||
| NTSC-U disc | ||||||||
| PAL disc |
PAL output
| JP
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EN
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FR
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DE
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ES
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IT
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Non-standard support | Comments | |
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| NTSC-J disc | ||||||||
| NTSC-U disc | ||||||||
| PAL disc (UK) |
Not translated. |
Translated. |
Not translated. |
Not translated. |
Not translated. |
Not translated. | ||
| PAL disc (FR) |
Not translated. |
Not translated. |
Translated. |
Not translated. |
Not translated. |
Not translated. |
Might not have it as a rigid table. This just gives a sense of the scope of this task -Black Squirrel (talk) 09:26, 20 January 2023 (EST)