After all, most people at the time didn't own NTSC consoles or mods for 60hz. Of course, in hindsight that's not too cool for people like us who care about playing the original game, and want the versions optimized for original 60hz play, but it does show that they cared about the games they put out in PAL territories. It was Nintendo who cared about the European releases, and optimized both gameplay and music on all of their European releases bar the very earliest ones. Huh? You seem to have gotten things reversed. The Master System as well, for that matter, but that was Nintendo not giving a damn. It's not surprising on the SNES, since in Europe the Mega Drive was king. Curiously, Giants like Capcom and Konami rarely cared at all, but you would imagine that there would be a ton of developers who wanted to continue this trend on MegaDrive as well? Maybe most had just decided that it's not worth the effort at this point? Notable examples would be Tecmo, Taito, Natsume, SunSoft and of course Nintendo who did it for practically every game they released after Zelda 1. It's funny though considering how many developers went all in trying to optimize their gameplay for 50hz releases on the NES from the late 80s on. At the time I knew nothing about the 50hz issue, obviously, but I doubt Square's programmers included a check that would speed up the music on a PAL console. Is it wrong to assume that SNES handles this issue entirely by hardware (I'd assume the code just loads the entire track into memory and tells the console to initialize it, but I don't know anything about SNES hardware)? The earliest example I recall of this was then Final Fantasy 6 (III) came out and the opera would desync when playing the game here in Europe, with the music ending long before the scene. I didn't know about the software check to adjust music timing, which explains why I thought the audio timing was independent on 50/60hz. I do share your experience, though, and always played my PAL titles in 60hz without any noticeable issue. When you live in Europe and have a crapton of PAL MegaDrive titles, you do actually, yeah.
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