OmegaMattman said:

Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of these LDs to work with myself. I'd love to get my hands on a raw, untweaked, high-quality LD-to-digital transfer of the PAL editions to toy around with ;)

Hmm... I might be able to help. Eventually....

Somewhere in my basement, I've got what's probably the best PAL LD player ever made (Pioneer LD-V4300D) and three copies of each of the 1993 PAL discs (two French and one German, I think).

The PAL versions aren't a panacea, but they're pretty good. And better than the NTSC verions in a lot of places.