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I captured a few games PAL PS1 games at 50Hz and most will only work at passthrough or Line X2 mode. I have an LG TV which is pretty good with a lot of PAL games, but many NTSC game support Line X3, which I have yet to see a PAL game work with on the PS1. Here’s a video that shows the PAL version of Kingsley’s Adventure captured at 50Hz on an OSSC at Line x2. https://youtu.be/t8LXPBV_vMY
As many PAL games are optimised for 50Hz forcing them into 60Hz is a mixed bag as some work and some don’t. I have recently covered a sample of forcing PAL PS1 games into 60Hz and the results were very mixed with which games do and don’t work: https://randomisedgaming.tumblr.com/post/632059947316805632/importplayer-light-for-ps1-how-to-fix-some-mod
Ideally if the OSSC had a way to generate black/blank lines or double say the first or last line the game outputs multiple times you might be able to standardise the signal in some games that uses different resolutions. The first and last lines are often used for screen safe areas so are just black or a coloured border like on the Mega Drive. You could say multiple 314 x 3 for 942 at PAL, then you could say repeat the first and last lines an additional 138 times between then. That way it would give you a 1080 height, while the aspect wouldn’t be perfect it might just fool some TVs to think it would be a standard picture signal at 1080. You could then adjust via zoom, crop and other options to correct for the odd aspect ratio picture possibly. Not sure it can be done , but it’s an idea suggestion for a way for users might be able to standardise odd PAL resolutions if a feature like this could be added in the normal or pro model of the OSSC. Certainly if the user could pick a set line and multiple it as many times as they need. That way you could used the normal feature to multiple to as close as possible to 720p or 1080p, before then mutipling one or two set lines to give you the remaining lines to reach them.
