Thought I was being clever when on a recent visit to NY I bought some PS2 games to put away as Xmas presents. But when we tried to play them found they were not compatable with the UK PS2. Anyone know if there is a way to make them work? Never had this problem with Nintendo DS games.
2007-12-27 01:14:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anthony R 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Games & Gear ➔ PlayStation
Officially, nothing can be done. Unofficiially - get a modchip installed or purchase Swapdisc set.
There are 3 regions for Playstation systems: PAL (Europe, India, Australia, etc.), NTSC J (Japan, etc.), NTSC U/C (USA and Canada).
2007-12-27 01:46:01 · answer #1 · answered by Bull Goose Loony 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Buy a US PS2 and a US TV so that you can play those US PS2 games!
Always remember UK uses the PAL system while the US uses the NTSC system.
2007-12-27 09:19:19 · answer #2 · answered by Neil N 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Ghost Of Christmas Past was haunting your PS2 games.
2007-12-27 10:54:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sony and other manufacturers use regional coding to stop people importing games from other regions at a cheaper price... this allows them to set their own price in each region.
So the games from USA will not work in Japan or in UK
the only way around this is to get the mod chip placed in your playstation as it allows the playing of games from other regions.
A man in Australia was taken to court by sony for putting the chips in playstations as it allowed copied games to be played, his defense was that it is designed to allow games from other regions to be played and he beat 2 lawsuits from sony.
2007-12-27 09:24:08 · answer #4 · answered by FanTorresTastic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
US uses NTSC format while UK uses PAL. it has something to do with power requirements or something like that. the TVs in the two countries are different too, that's why it's like that for consoles and not the DS I believe.
2007-12-27 09:18:24 · answer #5 · answered by thuglife 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All games and consoles have regions like DVDs so you can only play them in the country/ region you bought them in.
2007-12-27 09:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by regional_accent 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋