Thanks for that very clear and informative post. I somehow wasn't aware of that output deviation despite it being mentioned already. :p Just to clarify, the rate of video (and audio) output is completely isolated to the DAC? That is to say the rest of the system isn't aware that this deviation exist...

Let's just nip this in the bud right now so more people won't get confused. The region of the console itself doesn't really matter, as a) clockspeeds are largely the same and b) any N64 is capable of outputting both PAL or NTSC signals. Older consoles (NES, SNES, Genesis, Saturn) will have different...