13th April 2012, 10:13 PM
I got an Action Replay version 3 for the SNES some time ago. That was the key. It does two things. One, you hook up a US game to an additional port on the back. The AR uses that game's 10NES chip instead of the one in the top slot. Secondly, there's the other check. The game sends a request to the SNES asking if it is playing in PAL or NTSC mode. Well, the AR Mk3 just intercepts that request and tells the game "yeah, sure, PAL". In reality, of course, it's playing in NTSC, so not only am I playing the game without issue, it's running at the right speed instead of slightly slowed down like the European release (some games were actually recoded to play at the proper speed in their PAL versions, Terranigma wasn't one of them).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)