PAL UPDATE: GARAGE IN 2P RACES + ALL 12 NEW PAL CARS + NEW TECH DATA + old updates

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Race Idiot
Hmm, both those Photek songs are in the Japanese/Chinese version and I think those two tracks after that are in as well, as is the Kasabian song. Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs aren't on the Japanese version though.

ah i was checking against this, although just now i found the photek ones :dunce:

 
Ubiquitous
Most people don't have those kind of TV's anyway.. or in my experience.


But for those of us who do it's an annoying omission given that the Japanese version has it and the US version is bound to :(
 
Auto Union 1937 V16 Type C Streamliner
Chaparral 1967 2D
Chaparral 1970 2J
JAGUAR 1988 XJR9
Peugeot 1992 905B Evo 1 Bis LM

Great additions to GT4!

AUDI 2003 Pikes Peak quattro

i got all excited when i saw this, thinking it was the Sport Quattro with all the wings - but no, its a bloody SUV! - what a disapointment!!!
 
This is all fine and good, but coming from a nation that didn't get any gtconcepts nor gt4p I see the US gets screwed again by Mr K and PD.
This man has got to stop toying with the US market. What did I ever do to him?
 
S31Ender
This is all fine and good, but coming from a nation that didn't get any gtconcepts nor gt4p I see the US gets screwed again by Mr K and PD.
This man has got to stop toying with the US market. What did I ever do to him?

Not specifically you but in general, you all moaned too much on messageboards. Well that's my theory.
 
Its good they put extra SUV's in, almost every make has one, you can't forget them anymore. They better put the VW Touareg V10, MB G55 AMG and BMW X5 Le Mans in aswell
 
Do you race?
Too bad for all you impatient ones out there who imported the game!

Does ownership of the Japanese version preclude me from purchasing the PAL version? I think not.

Prediction: online for North American release.

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Racing numbers have only been seen on the official American site. Seems that the boys across the Atlantic might be in for a good time.

My thanks go out once more to our beloved Croatian contributor.👍
 
Does anyone know if the PAL version will support hi-definition output (720p), like the Japanese NTSC that supports 1080i ?
 
"The whole physics engine and crucially the speed of the cars - is rebuilt for PAL so that all together the PAL version will be the highest quality version of the game."



So your saying the US version will basically suck compared to the PAL, correct?

Does this above mean that the sense of speed will be better, the physics will be more advanced, and the game will look the sharpest?

This is a load of B.S. WTF was Kaz thinking. He better make the US version special OR ELSE. I wish they would make all versions the same...

*Rolls Eyes..*
 
GTJugend
Brilliant, pd. The option to switch between A and B-spec in pit is what I've been waiting for.

Shame they haven't given us PAL users (or anyone for that matter) the option to save the game during pit-stops. I'd love to own the Bentley and Audi racers that you win for completing the 2 LeMans enduros, but i don't have 24hrs spare to play GT4 and i'm not going to leave it on overnight or for weeks on end whilst i pause the game and get on with the rest of my life. I would prefere to play the race myself (perhaps in 1 hour segments) rather than let B-spec take over, but it would seem that i'll have no choice!

How much can you speed-up time by in B-spec?

AdrenalineSRX
So your saying the US version will basically suck compared to the PAL, correct?

Does this above mean that the sense of speed will be better, the physics will be more advanced, and the game will look the sharpest?

This is a load of B.S. WTF was Kaz thinking. He better make the US version special OR ELSE. I wish they would make all versions the same...

*Rolls Eyes..*

I think it just means that the PAL version will be slightly better resolution - PAL utilises more horizontal lines than NTSC does. NTSC does, however, update the picture 60 times a second to the PAL's 50 times a second, so NTSC wins on smoothness.
 
aye.....make all versions the same and that way when it's out it's OUT. No more of this "well I think they done dicking around now so I think we may see it in a few months....oh wait, no I guess not. their gunna take out some stuff so they can finish.....um nevermind, they decided to put 12 cars into the pal version and not the us but the US will get it a week before or so maybe, if it comes out before PAL at all.........

Jeez, if we aren't getting the stuff in the pal version. Why didn't it get released shortly after the japanese version? So ummmm we wait and then we STILL don't get the good version.

upset? you betcha!
 
I have an idea that US will get a enhanced EU version with some of the US cars shown past month in Detriot, as well as wider choice of US historic models. Reworked visuals on menus as PAL, native speaker for history of the car (still wondering about the work done in that area for PAL), some changes in music and word "colour" changed to "color". :).

I doubt about online. It is too good selling point for a standalone release worldwide in form of "GTOnline" game, probably idential to all three territoiries.
 
I believe everyone in Japan has one of those hard disks with their PS2, right? Maybe the new cars included in this PAL version will be available as downloadable content in Japan... I think mr GT4 would get lynched in Tokyo if he wouldn't do that...
 
TheCracker
Shame they haven't given us PAL users (or anyone for that matter) the option to save the game during pit-stops. I'd love to own the Bentley and Audi racers that you win for completing the 2 LeMans enduros, but i don't have 24hrs spare to play GT4 and i'm not going to leave it on overnight or for weeks on end whilst i pause the game and get on with the rest of my life.

In the Japanese/Asian version you can buy the The Audi R8 and Speed 8 but they cost allot.
 
nice to see how they improved the GT4 for the upcoming PAL edition... im sure that the North American should be somewhat near the same
 
I bet the US version will even get more and that those japanese guys with their hard disk PS2's can dl the addition PAL cars later on.

About that online, I think and hope there will be online coming out later this year. But online PAL version can only play versus PAL and US versus US and so on.
 
TheCracker
NTSC does, however, update the picture 60 times a second to the PAL's 50 times a second, so NTSC wins on smoothness.
True, however it's a very small difference which very few can notice.

Lesser updates per second means extra time for the CPU/GPU to do stuff, which is why PAL games can have better drawing distance, more polygons drawn and in some case, even higher poly resolution on the models/world.

Converting from NTSC to PAL is easier than the other way around and it's great to hear that Polyphony will take advantage of that.
 
This is starting to bother me, A game that we we're originally supposed to get just weeks after a japaneese launch hasnt even been mentioned for 2-3 months (Im happy pal finally gets the game second though :) )

But trying to get Information of any type about it is starting to get rediculous.
 
valli
True, however it's a very small difference which very few can notice.

Lesser updates per second means extra time for the CPU/GPU to do stuff, which is why PAL games can have better drawing distance, more polygons drawn and in some case, even higher poly resolution on the models/world.

Converting from NTSC to PAL is easier than the other way around and it's great to hear that Polyphony will take advantage of that.

Thats good news that we PAL pals have a game with more drawing distance etc. and now with those really nice backgrounds in GT4 it's going to be great.

37days till it hit the shelves so I'm curious what will happen in those days to come...
 
The American version better be fricken sweet. We haven't gotten prologue, and barely any demo's, unless we all want to mod our PS2 and read languages that are unreadable to anyone who doesn't know them. Plus, we don't even have a confirmed release date yet. C'mon PD, give us something!!!!
 
TheCracker
Shame they haven't given us PAL users (or anyone for that matter) the option to save the game during pit-stops. I'd love to own the Bentley and Audi racers that you win for completing the 2 LeMans enduros, but i don't have 24hrs spare to play GT4 and i'm not going to leave it on overnight or for weeks on end whilst i pause the game and get on with the rest of my life. I would prefere to play the race myself (perhaps in 1 hour segments) rather than let B-spec take over, but it would seem that i'll have no choice!

How much can you speed-up time by in B-spec?

3 times speed at most.

And yes, it would be even better with a save function.
 
RacingFreak2k3
The American version better be fricken sweet. We haven't gotten prologue, and barely any demo's, unless we all want to mod our PS2 and read languages that are unreadable to anyone who doesn't know them. Plus, we don't even have a confirmed release date yet. C'mon PD, give us something!!!!


If its not I'm gonna kill someone. But it will probably be my little brother cause I dont like him anyway.
 
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