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Japanese 360 game working on US/North American 360s?
robbiej
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So, it seems there really isn't much information on this issue out there. Either that or I'm just bad at digging for information. Anyhow, I did find out that it's not a matter of the actual 360 being region-locked, but that it's up to the game maker to decide which regions it will let the game play in.
So, I was just wondering, does anybody know, or know where I could find out, if the game "The idolm@ster" will work on US/North American Xbox360s? As far as I can tell, it's an NTSC-J game (as opposed to being just Asian Region). Any help is appreciated, thanks.
So, I was just wondering, does anybody know, or know where I could find out, if the game "The idolm@ster" will work on US/North American Xbox360s? As far as I can tell, it's an NTSC-J game (as opposed to being just Asian Region). Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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They say Idolm@ster won't work.
Nor will Tetris Grandmaster, which sucks cause I wanted it.
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That's how all region locking works (outside of rare, physical exceptions like SNES->Super Famicom). Every game includes a header which details all the information about the game. depending on the system, this will display the full name of the game, what accessories can be used, etc. But one thing just about every game's header will include is the region. The Sega Genesis used simple JUE determination. A J game was japanese, a U game was US, and an E game was european. You can often times combine these regions. For example, certain Genesis games are of region UE, that is "US and European" and some are JUE, i.e. "all regions." 360 games are no different.
Note that the neo geo pocket color is the rare exception to this.
rule number 1 of wiki: if you see a wiki, there are at least 10 mirrors
Basically NTSC-J games won't work on US consoles, but a lot of 360 games are released as NTSC worldwide. That's been my experience with the xbox 360 anyway.
You can thank THQ and their shitty version of tetris for that.
I've seen that list, I remember wikipedia having a more comprehensive one. For example the egamia one only lists a PAL version of COD4.
Should that not be rule two of wiki?
or is [citation needed] rule zero instead?
And I'm not a part of the solution either, I bought both Tetris Splash and Tetris Revolution...
I'm a whore.