Topic: The PAL-Land Mega Drive 60hz Movement!

My fellow PAL-Landians....We have come so far.

From being an insignificant afterthought in the gaming world we have come to represent an area of marked importance for Games Companies. It is true that we still have more travelling ahead of us, we have not yet come to the horizon and golden promised land of all games for all peoples in all languages, with releases within days of each other. No we have not achieved this yet, but I believe that the day will eventually come, I share your hope, now I call upon you to rise up in another shared hope, to destroy a seemingly unnecessary difficulty which is plaguing our beloved land currently. I speak of course, of SEGA's refusal to properly convert its Hanabi releases to our own format effectively.

I say to you this, it is not acceptable. In any other walk of life, would you consent to paying extra as we do, for a product which is inferior. I say that we here, must now cast the first stone. Other games have been converted easily and well. Why cannot our beloved Mega Drive games be the same? We must come together, and take concerted action against SEGA and their lazy conversions which we must pay more for. Enough is enough and it's time for a change. Together, my fellow PAL-Landians, we can bring change to the Virtual Console.

Post if you agree. Would be nice to see some of the mods and admins in here offering avenues of contact outside official complaints.

Thankyou, may Toad bless you, and Toad bless our glorious PAL-Land....

My english is soooo bad. But enough to say I am with you, Dark Machine. PAL releases of Virtual Console are a shame. Stop this!

I was looking forward MUSHA on VC. It should have been day one download for me. But now I guess I will wait and see. If it runs in 50Hz I will not get it. And I don't like being treated like this. I don't really understand what is the extra 100 points for if there is no propper localization done. A 100 points is maybe not much but a, 100 points for a butchered version is not acceptable.

Exactly, why do we pay 100 points more than the US or Japanese when there is very little to no localisation done. MUSHA was anticipated by me as well (partially due to the review from NL and my love of shooters) but if it runs in 50hz I will also not be buying. It's disgraceful that SEGA should do this when other companies have been able to convert the games easily. If you're not going to do anything to the damn game, or even make it worse like SEGA are doing, why should I pay you EXTRA?!

Edit: I believe therefore, that if we are able to take concerted, unified action in complaining to SEGA (or Nintendo or whoever runs the VC for Sega) or at least asking the question of why, we can make them change their policy on this.

Sega nowadays is only bad decisions, only bad decisions....
No one work there can't do something right?
I agree if we need to pay 100 more make things right.

We need some of the big hitters from this website to start using their connections to ask this question for us. Meanwhile I've done what I can, which is e-mail Nintendo about it (SEGA seems to have no real complaints system at all), MUSHA was the last straw for me, it's about time PAL-Gamers started standing up for quality when we pay MORE for most games.

Just so you know Sega's website also has a message board with a VC area. Maybe you could also post a thread about this and possibly somone from Sega may see it. Just a thought

As much as I love classic games I hate to hear about butchered ports. If only the people who run these classic game services were fans themselves we would not have these issues. But to them the VC is just a buisness and nothing more

Well we have to do two things principally. The first is complain to Nintendo/Sega/anyone who will listen. The second is to not buy Sega's VC Games and to try and orchestrate (HARD MODE) a boycott against them until the issue is solved.

(LUNATIC MODE) Go to the papers, the techie sections will love it, the ordinary ones might like it for a rip-off story, because it is a rip-off.

Lunatic mode is more reasonable for me. I love SEGA, and I don't like to boycott them (as happen with Okami here in Spain: because it was in english, I think I was the only person who bought this fantastic game in the first day; I do not regret at all and that makes me sad after the effort from Capcom making the port for Wii).

I hope Nintendo Life write an article about this problem. We need voices. And we need "fight" together.

Good on you Majora, I wasn't saying boycott all of Sega, just the VC stuff. But maybe that wouldn't be effective....

Yeah, NL needs to write an article about the problem, we need voices with some sway at least.

Have to say I totally agree on this... Considering one of the first things that greeted us PAL users on Dreamcast Sonic Adventure was a 60hz option, c'mon sega - bring the Megadrive VC up to scratch!