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Main => Consoles => Topic started by: exibar on July 15, 2007, 12:56:06 pm

Title: will the USA 360's play a PAL disc?
Post by: exibar on July 15, 2007, 12:56:06 pm

I have a friend in Europe that has a couple games that his kids don't play anymore and he was going to send them to me, but they're PAL format. 
   Will the US 360's automatically convert a PAL disc to play on an NTSC TV set?  I know some of the regular DVD players do this, but does the 360?

  My 360 is flashed for playing backups (a must with a 4 year old and an 8 year old playing $60 games), not sure if that makes a difference or not...

 thanks!
  Mike B

Title: Re: will the USA 360's play a PAL disc?
Post by: boykster on July 16, 2007, 12:18:30 am

nope, won't go.  not even a flashed 360 will play other region/format games....sorry.

Title: Re: will the USA 360's play a PAL disc?
Post by: pointdablame on July 16, 2007, 10:05:34 am

Quote from: boykster on July 16, 2007, 12:18:30 am

nope, won't go.  not even a flashed 360 will play other region/format games....sorry.

yup, there's no way around it as far as I know.  There's a good number of 360 games that are region free, but you won't be able to play PAL games on an NTSC xbox/TV.  The region free games would allow you to get some asian games though, as long as they are NTSC as well.

Title: Re: will the USA 360's play a PAL disc?
Post by: Malenko on July 16, 2007, 11:31:49 am

what if he uses a VGA cable?  just wondering.. I think it'd work, but Ive been wrong before.

Title: Re: will the USA 360's play a PAL disc?
Post by: SNAAKE on July 16, 2007, 02:58:04 pm

http://www.xbox-sky.com/xbox360_regional_compatibility_guide/

Title: Re: will the USA 360's play a PAL disc?
Post by: exibar on July 16, 2007, 08:31:12 pm

thanks for the info all, I'll have him put the games up on ebay or something :-)

  Mike B