Nails, based on my observation of the Jap NTSC PS2 I have (living in a PAL country), the PS2 puts out what it sees on the CD/DVD. So, in your case, an NTSC PS2 game will come out through the cables as NTSC and straight into your TV. If you have a PAL game (amd presuming that you have chipped your PS2 to accept import backups), then one fairly certain method of being able to view the PAL game (50 Hz) properly on your 60Hz NTSC TV is to insert a PAL-NTSC convertor between the PS2 and the TV. Of course my advice is guarded by no experience of the US/Canada PS2 model and what they may have done to the output section.