pal/ntsc & ppf issue

[Jella]

I moved to the US recently from Europe, and brought with me a bunch of PAL psx games, and a PAL console, with the controllers, memory cards, the ****. However, although I fixed the voltage issue with a step down transformer, it turns out that I cannot seem to be able to get the video signal to display properly on the American (NTSC) television set.

I knew this would happen, so I purchased a PAL-to-NTSC converter from Chipzone...which did not help one bit. I sent it back and got a replacement...and it doesn't work for me either. The problem is that the resulting image has the right colours, but it is extremely jumpy. It's a pity since the audio works fine and the colours are there.

I asked about the refresh rate differences (50 Hz/60 Hz) but the blokes at Chipzone said that it does not matter; the converter works with a PAL psx and an NTSC tv set.

Yeah well, it doesn't.

So I am looking into patching. I have been reading up a lot on it on this forum, but I am still confused as to whether a patch can provide a fix for my situation. If the reason my NTSC tv set cannot display the video image correctly is the refresh rate difference, then can a patch really help? If the psx unit (PAL) thinks that the game disc is originally NTSC, is the output then at 60 Hz? I don't see how it could be...and since my psx isn't chipped, all I could use is my PSX-2-Change (or something like that) cd to run any patched discs I'd make.

Second... whenever trying to apply a patch for my copy of FF9, PPFOMATIC complains about the file size. I've downloaded the patch for UK PAL version, which I assume mine is since I purchased it in Finland (Europe) and it is in English. I doubt that they produced several different kinds of English PAL versions of that game. What could cause this problem?

Thanks for any advice you can give.