Cant Win Different F1 Cars!

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this is the problem i can not seem to win the f1 car that is posted on this site under the prize car section..if you look at the image of the f090/s it is nothing like the car i have won..firstly the nose is different..instead of the nose being directly placed onto the front wing mine has to struts holding it...secondly the graphics are all the same...thirdly i have done the 150mile speed ring..polyphony cup and the dream car cup..despite the prize car listing saying they are different f1 cars mine are exactly the same model..same colour as well..any1 help me get the f1 car displayed (wrongly) in the prize car section under the name of f090/s..thanks
 
Get the game box. Look in the top-right corner. Under the PS2 logo there's a little white box - what does it say in it?

If it says PAL (or you live anywhere in the world that isn't N. America or Japan and you don't have a chipped PS2) you can only get 2 F1 cars - the P001 and the P002.

If it says NTSC you can win 6 F1 cars - two of which are analogues of our P001/P002.

Aaaand this topic is LOCKED!
 
I've wondered that myself. What do PAL & NTSC stand for? I know which is which. That just takes some time reading posts here & a little common sense. But what do the abbreviations stand for?
 
This is answered in a few places, but...

PAL = Phased Alternating Line. Worldwide standard, 625 horizontal lines, refreshing 50 times a second.

NTSC = National Television Standards Committee. N. America/Japan standard. 525 horizontal lines, refreshing 60 times a second.

The only other TV standard I know of is in France, called "SECAM", but it wasn't terribly popular, and they tend to use PAL.
 
Okay. Thank you. Now I got my answer, so I don't care if the threads closed. :D

Originally posted by Famine
This is answered in a few places, but...
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Hey, at least I didn't start a thread on it.
 
Originally posted by Tazio
Hey, at least I didn't start a thread on it.
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True - and I doubt doing a search would help much either. It's just one of those things...

Still, now YOU can answer it too :D
 
Originally posted by Famine
The only other TV standard I know of is in France, called "SECAM", but it wasn't terribly popular, and they tend to use PAL.
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PAL is not the "worldwide standard"... It's the Western Europe, Asia & Australia standard.

NTSC is used in plenty places -- US, Canada, Mexico (and the rest of North & Central America), Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea, the Philippines and parts of South America.

SECAM (Sequential Couleur Avec Memoire) is still used in France a lot, and it's the standard in Russia, much of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and parts of West Africa. Outside France, it's actually a slightly different format called MESECAM. SECAM TV's will work fine with PAL input, but the color will be off.

Brazil has PAL-M, which is the same as NTSC, but it has PAL's color coding.

Black & White TV was such a simple concept. Take signal, put signal on screen at a speed in sync with the AC current. NTSC & PAL were developed as clever ways to broadcast color signals that were still compatible with B&W TV's. NTSC is from 1954. It had slightly unstable color, and PAL/SECAM were developed in 1967 with better color coding, but all standards have good color on modern TV's.

Luckily, HDTV will eventually take all that over. AFAIK, all HDTV's are compatible with 1080/24p, 1080/60i and 1080/50i. And I know all the newer Sony HDTV's also support NTSC, PAL and SECAM.
 
What gets me though is, why do we have so many different standards?. It seems strange to me that (for example) Sony would develope a new brand of t.v but then have to make 3-4 different versions of it for different countries?. Wouldnt it be easier to have a single global standard, or is it not that simple?
 
This is all so helpful...:) Good to see a thread that usually gets locked has been filled with some things that could've hardly been answered by searching. I also never knew what PAL and NTSC stand for...I didn't know there were any more standards than these though.
 

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