Zarkov wrote on 02/14/13 at 07:37:06:Nice chart indeed. Interesting to note only 41 players have timesets for both. I assumed it wouldve been at least twice as many.
Yeah I thought the same thing. Then again, there are more combined players in the higher ranks, but even there, there are still quite a few who only play one version (most notably Oliver in NTSC; Angelo and Stellmacher in PAL). In fact the majority of the top Americans, Canadians, Japanese, and Brazilians still haven't touched PAL, and
no Australian is on both PAL and NTSC. I suppose that helps make the upper NTSC ranks stronger though, since a larger share of PAL's top players are also on NTSC.
Also worth noting that a large number of combined PAL-NTSC players are French. I think this is because Japanese import games are particularly popular there (and it's likely that many other Europeans got their own NTSC copies in France, especially from the CDM).
More popular than PAL games are in any NTSC area, at least. (every NTSC-to-PAL player probably either had to go to Europe to get a PAL SMK copy (e.g. GAS or Charignon... while Anna Moon's NTSC game must have come from Japan), order it online, or have a friend send it to them... PAL games are just not sold in North and South America, AFAIK, and you need a special converter to make one work there-- NTSC TVs never support 50Hz, I don't think, even if PAL ones may support 60Hz... plus color may not work on a converted game)
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Combined PAL/NTSC rankings (based on the NBT site) (Read 350 times)
