{"id":212,"date":"2007-06-09T20:33:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T20:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/09\/XboxFromUKGamesFromUSOK.aspx"},"modified":"2007-06-09T20:33:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T20:33:38","slug":"xbox-from-uk-games-from-us-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/09\/xbox-from-uk-games-from-us-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox from UK, games from US &#8211; OK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/my-badge-holder-broke-and-my-xbox-died\/\">our 360 went south<\/a> Paula and I decided that the best course of action was to buy a replacement box instead of waiting for a really long, expensive repair (since it&#8217;s an American box it has to be shipped to the US for resurrection).&nbsp; Since we use our Xbox to watch TV we also didn&#8217;t want to wait the couple months it would likely take.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.little.org\/photos\/161052978-S.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;idea of a new box was all good and well&#8230; but I also have a library of games I like to play (including a copy of Lego Star Wars II we just bought but never got a chance to play).&nbsp; Gears of War I can buy in the company store for \u20ac20&#8230; but Lego Star Wars and Ghost Recon were going to run me \u20ac60 each.&nbsp; Crap.<\/p>\n<p>After setting up the replace box I wondered: what happens if I stick the US (NTSC) game disc into my European (PAL) Xbox?<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, I was pleasantly surprised.&nbsp; Like DVDs, video games often have region encoding which prevents a game disc purchased in, for example, &nbsp;Paris from working on a console purchased in Poughkeepsie.&nbsp; In the case of the Xbox 360, however, the region lock-out isn&#8217;t a certainty.&nbsp; Fortunately for me (and many other gamers) Microsoft adopted the policy of letting publishers decide if their game discs would be region-free.<\/p>\n<p>Not all Xbox 360 titles will work in all regions&#8230; but luckily for me my two current faves, GOW and GRAW2, do.&nbsp; No need to run out and buy replacement copies.&nbsp; In my quest for an answer as to why my discs worked in my new console I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play-asia.com\/paOS-00-3-xbox360_compatibility_guide-49-en.html\">a fairly detailed list of region compatibility on Play-Asia.com<\/a>.&nbsp; It takes the guesswork out of any future purchases (especially cool since buying games in the US is much cheaper with the strength of the Euro).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When our 360 went south Paula and I decided that the best course of action was to buy a replacement box instead of waiting for a really long, expensive repair (since it&#8217;s an American box it has to be shipped to the US for resurrection).&nbsp; Since we use our Xbox to watch TV we also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlevideo-games","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}