Nintendo first mentioned a successor to the Nintendo 64 on March 3, 1999, a day after Sony's announcement of the PlayStation 2, the successor to the Sony PlaySta… NTSC-J was the analog television system and video display standard for the region of Japan that ceased operations in 44 of the country's 47 prefectures on July 24, 2011. The PAL region is a television publication territory that covers most of Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and Oceania. It is so named because of the PAL (Phase Alternating Line) television standard traditionally used in those regions, as opposed to the NTSC standard traditionally used in Japan and most of North America. I'm not a hundred percent what it stands for but in america you get a version format which is called NTSC and here in Australia you have the Pal version. A lot of PAL roms are seeded more than NTSC ones. The Nintendo GameCube (abbreviated as GameCube, GC, or GCN, or NGC) is Nintendo's fourth home console and a sixth generation video game console initially released on September 14, 2001 in Japan. Analog broadcasting ended on March 31, 2012 in the three prefectures devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima). While NTSC delivers a frame rate of 30 frames per second (fps) at an aspect ratio of 720x480, PAL uses a frame rate of 25 fps and a 720x576 aspect ratio. This Site Might Help You. I know it's a rom question, but I am curious. I have a little purple console with a handle that i wish to sell. It may help increase the value if i know. How do I tell if it is NTSC or PAL. oh and. www.gameshark i think. RE: How do you tell if a gamecube is PAL or NTSC? pal means it's made in europe (pal is needed to play on european tvs and the ntsc is for american and chinese/japanese tvs. NTSC and PAL are two types of color encoding systems that affect the visual quality of content viewed on analog televisions and, to a much smaller degree, content viewed on HDTVs. (05-31-2009, 01:40 AM) stunt789 Wrote: pal games are typically more stable in dolphin than ntsc currently at the moment, I have no idea why that is but I would make sure you get as many pal … It was developed and manufactured by Nintendo. So I want to know if they will be, say, the same speed as the NTSC one or whatever. It is only compatible with the australian game cube or Wii. try looking in gameshark's official site for the ntsc version of the cheats.