K..i dont understand Pal and i think NTSC? very well..how do i know if it is a pal patch? if that is what i am using..it's in Canada..so i dunno..lol and I am juz copying the games do i need a patch always? and if so what do they do exactly

ANSWER: PAL is the European/African etc TV standard 625 lines 50HZ; NTSC is the US/Canada/Jap TV standard 525 lines 60Hz. Now I'm not the expert on this, but the only patched version of FF9 is the UK version. If you use CloneCD with a fully comatible burner (mode RAW-DAO+96) you don't have to patch anything. Patches do all sorts of things, like convert PAL to NTSC and reverse by modifying the CD files via a process using CDRWin to copy onto disk, PPF-O-MATIC to apply the patch and CDRWin to burn the result back