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Rtzxy Reflect! 11:31, 22 November 2014 (EST)

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Had a busy day yesterday, so pardon the late response.

1. While PAL specifically refers to regions covered by the phase alternating line, it is often used to just refer to European regions (and also Australia, because Queen's English).
2. Duck Hunt is called "Duck Hunt Duo" specifically in Europe.
3. The Switch's region-free nature does not change the fact that you can change the region your Switch is "located" in, affecting other things (can't remember off the top of my head). If you change it to Europe, it switches to British English.

I won't call you wrong, but I also won't say that the wording is 100% right either. Aidan, the Springing Rurouni 11:07, April 23, 2019 (EDT)

Sure, but even still, NTSC and PAL is inaccurate in today's day and age, mainly because Nintendo consoles from the Wii U onwards (and even the portable consoles) never really rely on analog connections at all. All they have is HDMI connections, which is digital. In that case, stating NTSC and PAL for those sorts of versions is just plain wrong, inaccurate and outdated.

P.S. I also use the Mario Wiki under the username "Owencrazyboy9", and on that wiki, I made a proposal to determine what to use to refer to regional differences and the final result was that we use NTSC and PAL for the NES, SNES, N64, GCN and Wii consoles, but we go with the American and British terminology for everything else. – Smashbrosfan99 (talk) 15:50, April 23, 2019 (EDT)

It being inaccurate doesn't change the fact that it's still a shorthand term for those two different areas of the world - NTSC for the Americas, and PAL for European countries and Australia (and also Middle Eastern/South Asian countries because I don't like leaving people out and I forgot to mention that earlier). Also, we're not MarioWiki; while there is a cross between the two (as is to be expected of wikis under the same association), SmashWiki follows its own rules, and MarioWiki follows its own rules. Aidan, the Rurouni 17:48, April 23, 2019 (EDT)

Already knew about these wikis having their own roundabout ways of handling rules. I'm still not convinced about your counterpoints at all. NTSC and PAL are inaccurate in today's day-and-age and doesn't make sense to use when there could be multiple NTSC versions of games or multiple PAL versions of games when region-locking comes into play (e.g. literally every Japanese and American release ever before region-free consoles and the European and Australian releases of Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64). Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, in this case, is region-free, meaning that the usage of NTSC and PAL already falls even flatter on its face than it initially did because of the Switch's usage of HDMI connectivity and portability. – Smashbrosfan99 (talk) 22:51, April 23, 2019 (EDT)

See, but with stuff like this, you're making things way too specific when they aren't. "British English" != "all European localizations". Aidan, the Rurouni 02:28, April 27, 2019 (EDT)

PAL region

The PAL region is the group of markets that traditionally used PAL technology. It does not specify anything about the hardware currently used in those markets. This is why it is always incorrect to compare the PAL region to NTSC, and instead it should be compared to North America (or "The Americas"), Japan, etc.

The term "PAL region" is useful because it includes Europe as well as Australia and New Zealand, which usually get products with the same script. --SnorlaxMonster 22:19, April 27, 2019 (EDT)