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 Post subject: Xbox 360 region coding
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:48 
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A friend is off to live in Australia later this year but wants to get a 360 before he goes as they're much cheaper over here apparently. Will he be able to buy games in Oz and use them on his British 360? I assume you can as they're both PAL but wanted to check.


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 Post subject: Re: Xbox 360 region coding
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:50 
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If they're both PAL then I can't see it being an issue.

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 Post subject: Re: Xbox 360 region coding
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:54 
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Cheers, that's what I figured.

Also, I don't remember ever playing against any Australians over Live. Is this just because of the time difference or does it not match you against them because it gets a bit laggy?


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 Post subject: Re: Xbox 360 region coding
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:59 

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The game regions will be the same, the DVD regions will not.


In practice a really good proportion of Aussi DVDs are R2 and 4 though.


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 Post subject: Re: Xbox 360 region coding
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:41 
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A surprising amount of 360 games are actually region free, it's mainly EA who are clinging to region-locking.

A mate of mine had a Japanese 360 (he was living in Tokyo during the launch) that recently red-ringed on him, and he ended up having to replace it with a UK 360. Of his 30 or so Japanese games, he had to replace skate. and Burnout Paradise with UK copies, and that was about it.

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 Post subject: Re: Xbox 360 region coding
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:55 
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they should work I remember questor off the old forum buying NHl 2k7 off me and I noticed him playing it on xbox live so thats my evidence.


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 Post subject: Re: Xbox 360 region coding
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 14:00 

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Glass Museum wrote:
A surprising amount of 360 games are actually region free, it's mainly EA who are clinging to region-locking.


A touch irritating really given the ONE time I've really wanted to import something, it was EA.


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