Romhacks Cosmic Commuter – PAL50Hz Conversion Hack V1.0 (Atari 2600) Romhack

[Romhack Plaza]

Well, This game Was never released in true PAL 50Hz speed release and was a NTSC only exclusive release. (Until now) This has got to be the most well worked on Hack conversion of Activision’s Cosmic Commuter. A horizontal shooter-gamer Your mission is to shoot obstacles, grabbing fuel. and grabbing people Once you saved all the people. You can take off to another planet/Level This hack of mine has not only been having the colour palette change to show the correct colours when playing on a PAL Atari 2600 console. This now can happily run in PAL 50Hz speed and […]

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[PoyoPoyo1985]

Congrats on such cool PAL conversion of this game! PAL speeds are more of my thing sometimes for some games.

 

[JRussellRetroGaming]

Thank you heaps, PoyoPoyo1985. Yeah I couldn't agree more, Since living in the PAL territory all my life. I always played games at that speed growing up amd always been adjusted to playing it that way.

I'll say this though, hacking this to convert from NTSC Speed to PAL speed wasn't an easy task on the Stella Debugger compare to changing the colour values were on Hack-O-Matic III. But here we are.

I'm in that 1% club of hackers who want to show some love to hack PAL 50Hz game to give back to the PAL 50Hz players out there as the majority of ROM hackers only seem to only do NTSC 60Hz ROM hacking and leaving PAL 50Hz gamers in the dark. I'm trying my best to break that by showing the love and appreciation PAL games deserve.

 

[Simone D. Alemanno]

I'm in that 1% club of hackers who want to show some love to hack PAL 50Hz game to give back to the PAL 50Hz players out there as the majority of ROM hackers only seem to only do NTSC 60Hz ROM hacking and leaving PAL 50Hz gamers in the dark. I'm trying my best to break that by showing the love and appreciation PAL games deserve.

I agree on that front. Some of my own hacks and translations are for PAL 50Hz versions wherever possible, as I want them to be accessible by everyone regardless of the refresh rate they are playing on.

 

[Adrian Gauna]

Thank you heaps, PoyoPoyo1985. Yeah I couldn't agree more, Since living in the PAL territory all my life. I always played games at that speed growing up amd always been adjusted to playing it that way.

I'll say this though, hacking this to convert from NTSC Speed to PAL speed wasn't an easy task on the Stella Debugger compare to changing the colour values were on Hack-O-Matic III. But here we are.

I'm in that 1% club of hackers who want to show some love to hack PAL 50Hz game to give back to the PAL 50Hz players out there as the majority of ROM hackers only seem to only do NTSC 60Hz ROM hacking and leaving PAL 50Hz gamers in the dark. I'm trying my best to break that by showing the love and appreciation PAL games deserve.

I agree 100% with all of you! You know me by now on here, anything I put up is always with PAL in mind, I try and break that region lock out at times and make the games playable all around the world instead of locking out one region or another and if I can't, I make 2 or 3 different patches for each region, (japan, USA and Europe).

 

[JRussellRetroGaming]

I agree 100% with all of you! You know me by now on here, anything I put up is always with PAL in mind, I try and break that region lock out at times and make the games playable all around the world instead of locking out one region or another and if I can't, I make 2 or 3 different patches for each region, (japan, USA and Europe).

Oh totally mate. Hands down. It is a great blessing that there are rare ones like us who are doing the best to break that barrier when we can.

 

[JRussellRetroGaming]

G'Morning Plaza members.
This Hack is now at v1.2 as of 21st January 2026

I’ve changed the colour values for the Blue and Green. the Greens are now more warmer where as the Blues are more of the warmish side as well. The green Value is at offset $30-$3F where previously was at offset $50-$5F, the blue value is now at offset $D0 – $DF when previously was $B0- $BF

HAPPY GAMING!
Josho