Topic: Region Free X360 (Read 45 times)

haz8989 · « **on:** May 29, 2006, 12:35:00 AM »

I'm sorry if this question has been asked a hundred times, but i'm yet to find a solid answer. Is it possible to remove the region coding of an XBOX 360? I have been told by someone who is adament it is possible to do so, however it seems a bit sus.
Can anyone back this up for me??

recall2000 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2006, 05:45:00 AM »

QUOTE(haz8989 @ May 29 2006, 06:42 AM)

I'm sorry if this question has been asked a hundred times, but i'm yet to find a solid answer. Is it possible to remove the region coding of an XBOX 360? I have been told by someone who is adament it is possible to do so, however it seems a bit sus.
Can anyone back this up for me??

You cannot (at time of posting) remove the region coding, but there are a number of games that don't have any region coding. More info - http://en.wikipedia...._Xbox_360_Games

Havok · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2006, 08:36:00 PM »

QUOTE(recall2000 @ May 29 2006, 11:52 AM)

You cannot (at time of posting) remove the region coding, but there are a number of games that don't have any region coding. More info - http://en.wikipedia...._Xbox_360_Games

Secuirity sectors are still different for different regions even though the game is region free.

PedrosPad · « **Reply #3 on:** May 30, 2006, 01:49:00 AM »

QUOTE(Havok @ May 30 2006, 03:43 AM)

Secuirity sectors are still different for different regions even though the game is region free.

It's be interesting to know if the rest of the ISO content is the same and the SS the only difference.

If the true 'content' of the ISO also contains differences (localised language strings, etc.), then this would imply the SS contains a hash of the disk contents.
If the true 'content' is identical, this would imply the SS has a relationship with the console's regional settings (held in Flash?).

My guess would be the SS contains a hash of the disk contents. This be useful for verification during manufacture (although also potentially useful at runtime, I don't see the console recalculating the disk contents on insertion - the time this'd take would upset game launch time. Maybe thisd come if people started patching the game content files

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brandogg · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2006, 06:42:00 AM »

I read that the Hitatchi firmware released on a Chinese site a couple days ago disabled the region check. Can't confirm or deny it though.

PedrosPad · « **Reply #5 on:** May 30, 2006, 09:04:00 AM »

QUOTE(Spark @ May 30 2006, 03:26 PM)

It is also impossible to disable the regional protection through the drive fw as it is stored in the bios.

I've no comment on the validity of any release, but I suspect it would be possible to hack the DVD-Drive FW to remove DVD-Video regional protection. (DVD-Drive FW could report all DVD-Video disks a region zero (i.e. everywhere).) I'm sure we'll see this eventually.

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