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DivyX

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Region Coding?
« on: December 20, 2005, 12:59:00 AM »
Hi.
As of yet there are no ways to change the region code of 360.
Region code ofcourse  applies to movies and games.
In my opinion reasonable thing for your friend to do is to wait for the time when ntsc boxes comes up in stores again.
I'd bet my money that dvd drives are not the same if you could swap them in the first place. There must be atleast couple places where the region coding exists.

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DivyX

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« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2005, 08:42:00 AM »
Well you have region 2 as italian, and you can check the game region descriptions by reading games back cover or something when you head to chicago.

Sadly I think that all game boxes in stores says systematically ( NTSC ). There shouldn't be market for PAL games in there so i wouldn't imagine that stores have them. Your best bet is to have credit card for ordering the games from europe. Or... you know the other option that doesn't exist yet. You need something more also to plug in that pal xbox in states...  it has something to do with voltage i'd think...  rolleyes.gif
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2005, 05:02:00 AM »
I expect it's not a firmware thing like on PC drives, but dashboard related like on the original xbox.  That makes it easier to produce.
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DivyX

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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2005, 12:50:00 PM »
Well if you can deobfuscate dvd's firmware it could help. There are dumps floating around.
I'm however pretty sure that having region check in dvd firmware doesn't make much difference if you think about it.
I'd think the check for the region isn't done inside fw anyways, solely that is. XEX files which are crypted save few things are almost sure to contain region code similar for xbe file that could be like some default.xbes has: ( hex 52 30 9b 5c 72 ( region 0 in this case ) ) and dash maybe checks it too ( from dvd ? ).
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