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[Arakon]

The infectus way is ONLY possible on old models, and only allows you to switch the region, not region-free the console. on new models or repaired, there is no way, period.
the region check is done by the system, not the drive. until the system is fully hacked, you are out of luck.

er.. and by the way, USA uses ntsc. europe, australia and some of asia is PAL. and both are color encoding formats and not region codes. an japanese game is ntsc too, but it won't play on an US console cause of the region code.

[torne]

That's the only way to change the region code. Modding the DVD drive only lets you play backups, it doesn't do anything about region coding; backups are also subject to region restrictions. You would be looking for an Infectus, not an Infernus

[Arakon]

No, they're not region free either. You can install a chip on them that makes them region free, though.


As for working at MS.. there's no more than a handful of people who have access to the security info. You wouldn't have a chance to release anything useful.

[darkshadow2k8]

QUOTE(Indeceseant @ Aug 12 2008, 05:15 AM)  

Hi everyone. I recently got JSRF & Sega GT 2002 on a Duel Disc from a mate of mine from America.

My xbox 360 is from Australia and the disc is from America. So my xbox 360 screams at me with "Region Code" errors. I was wondering if anyone has written a nice guide to getting past this..

My Xbox360 is NTSC.
The game I want to play has NTSC written all over it basically. [But I still cannot play it].
(Not to mention its well known that all games from America are PAL anyway).

I read this one and this one. but they are written in very bad english and half the time I don't know what to even do.

Not to mention an ebay search wont find anything with the keyword Infernus. That guide is old anyway and the photobucket links are out-of-date. I don't even know if there are such things as infernus cards anymore.

What I'm asking for is well, has anyone written a newer cleaner way to change your xbox 360's region code?
Or is there another way all together? Orrr... is it even possible to still do what that old guide up there says?

I'm happy with modding my xbox 360. I'm happy with playing $100's and/or voiding my warranty as well as being banned permanently from xbox live. So yeah I'm happy doing whatever. I just want to know what my options are.

A mate of mine is going to hack the samsung firmware in my xbox 360's cd/dvd drive which will let me read burnt games.. but I mainly wanted him to do it so I can bypass this annoying region code error. He thinks that it should bypass the error but I'm not to sure. I don't want him to open my box up and void my warranty if he or I aren't 100% sure or even 80% sure that it will let me play this game from America.

So could someone tell me what my options are please?
Thanks for any help, it took 3 weeks to get this game in the mail and now I can't even play it.

well your only options are if theres a way to backup the games than make them region free im sure theres others but im not sure about them

[Arakon]

QUOTE(darkshadow2k8 @ Aug 12 2008, 06:22 PM)  

well your only options are if theres a way to backup the games than make them region free im sure theres others but im not sure about them

there is no way to modify the game to get around the region protection. any change will break the signature, which results in a non-booting disk.

[Indeceseant]

QUOTE(Arakon @ Aug 13 2008, 08:03 AM)  

there is no way to modify the game to get around the region protection. any change will break the signature, which results in a non-booting disk.

That's what I was told. The game's region is hard coded into the game. The only thing you can change is the Hexadecimal of your Xbox 360 to fool it into thinking its from a different region.

After looking around, I don't think it would be worth it (if not impossible altogether) to hack my boxes region and change it to NTSC. Far as I have read they are region coded for a reason due to PAL and NTSC having different refresh rates & resolution. So even if you did change the region and fooled the box into thinking its from somewhere else, the quality would be horrible, so say the least.

Today I traded in my NTSC at EB Games and I got $22 AU for it. They don't know that it wont work on Australian machines. All they checked was that there were minimal scratches. Frankly there isn't a single scratch on the whole thing. Then I drove to the next EB games down the road (our town has 2 of them), and I got them to order in JSRF either Dual with Sega GT 2002 or just by itself. They found someone with it who promised to bring it in tomorrow. Hopefully then I will be a happy man.

I just need to get a TV now. My neighbor took his back today because he finally got an inverter that can run it.

Thanks for the help guys. If there was a rep system I would have just forked it all over.