Strange NTSC playback behaviour

[aussiewan]

This weekend I got a brand new TV. A nice 68cm LG Flatron, component input, pretty sweet. I went to play Game of Life (NTSC PSX game) on my V4 PAL PS2 last night, and it came up in black and white! I thought "Oh crap, don't tell me my nice new TV doesn't handle NTSC...." and was ready to take it back and swap it for the Sony equivalent. Then I thought about some other games I have... my PS2 NTSC games like Capcom VS SNK 2, Super Bust A Move (yeah sad I know) etc all worked fine, in colour! Can anyone shed some light on this? Or should I say colour? I reckon I'll end up converting the PS1 game to PAL, which should fix it, but I'm still curious as to why the heck it acts like this. Any ideas?

[charlie_ps2]

You need to do the colour fix on the PS2 because there is a bug in Sony's code that sets the wrong video mode for psx games.

[aussiewan]

So the PSX games send info saying they are PAL but send NTSC data? The annoying thing is that it all works great on a crappy old NEC 34cm Mono TV I have, lol... will patching the PSX game to PAL do it aswell (except obviously not for all games)?