PAL/NTSC Zelda

You probably already know that the PAL N64 runs at 50hz, 12% slower than its NTSC counterpart. But did that have any effect on the two N64 Zelda games? Or did Nintendo put a speed fix in for the PAL carts?

I've noticed that the clock in MM seems to run at the same speed on both PAL and NTSC versions - in fact the only difference I've noticed is when the giants stop the moon from falling. On NTSC, the music finishes exactly as the cut scene finishes. On PAL, the music finishes a few seconds before the cut scene.

I'm not too sure about OoT - I think the only difference in the PAL version was the addition of more European languages (French, German, Spanish etc).

Anyone have more comments?

I'm not sure, but somewhere we were discussing the scenes you get after copmpleting Majora's Mask with all the masks, and it seemed almost as though there were two different versions - did the PAL MM ending differ to the NTSC one, or where they just remembering wrongly?

hey, i'm not tryin to spam...or just put another post, i'm just curious!
what do u mean by pal n64?...or ntsc?....just tell me when you're able to
maybe i'll be able to answer your question.

PAL is the TV standard used in most of Europe, while NTSC is used in the US and Japan. PAL runs at 50 frames per second, while NTSC runs at 60. Therefore, conversions from original NTSC games to PAL either have to be sped up to compensate for the lower frame rate, or (more often) just left running 12% slower than the NTSC version.

The N64 didn't suffer from PAL slowdown as much as the old SNES and Genesis though - perhaps the games were optimised?

Oh, and regarding the MM ending - I have the Collectors Edition on Gamecube and an emulated version. The Collector's Edition version runs at 60 fps, but the emulated version I have is PAL and runs at 50 fps.
The ending I've noticed has a slight difference. At one point in the PAL version, under the credits you see a spinning Bunny Hood mask. On the NTSC version, this is a shot of the couple outside the Bomb Shop.

The spinning Bunny Hood simply means you didn't collect that mask in the game. The couple outside the bomb shop is also on the PAL version, provided you've collected the Blast Mask.