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Are Xbox games region coded?

  • 26-11-2010 9:27pm
    #1
    NORTH1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    My brother(Living in America) wants to bring some games back from America for the kids at christmas, do you guys know if the games are region coded?

    North1


Comments

  • #2
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    90% of them would be yes


  • #3
    NORTH1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭NORTH1


    Thanks for the reply. I'll let them know not to bother.


  • #4
    chrislad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    90% is a bit high. It's much lower than that.

    Check the likes of axelmusic.com, play-asia.com for region free titles.


  • #5
    joker@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭joker@


    Mostly are region coded so forget about buy cheaper games in US or Asia..weel Asia delivery will cost more than games in there.


  • #6
    Gooch2k4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Gooch2k4


    id say the actual figure of coded games is pretty low, around the 40% mark


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  • #7
    WellyJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭WellyJ


    It's definitely less than half. It's rarer that a game is region coded.


  • #8
    Fingleberries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭Fingleberries


    Quite a few games would be region coded, not as high as the 90% mentioned earlier. For example, pretty much all of the EA Games would be region locked.

    Several web-sites will test to verify if the game is region free or not. Play-Asia mentioned earlier is one.

    Another is http://vgplus.blogspot.com/. It's a Canadian site - if you use the search box at the top of the page to look for the game that you're interested in, they should have an answer Yay or Nay for you.

    I've used these quite a bit to save a few bob every now and again.

    One other gotcha would be that you can't trade-in an American game here (in Game, xtra-vision or Gamestop), because they don't take them. You can sell them on adverts or ebay, though.

    Hope that helps.


  • #9
    Gooch2k4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Gooch2k4


    Fingleberries wrote: »
    Quite a few games would be region coded, not as high as the 90% mentioned earlier. For example, pretty much all of the EA Games would be region locked.

    Several web-sites will test to verify if the game is region free or not. Play-Asia mentioned earlier is one.

    Another is http://vgplus.blogspot.com/. It's a Canadian site - if you use the search box at the top of the page to look for the game that you're interested in, they should have an answer Yay or Nay for you.

    I've used these quite a bit to save a few bob every now and again.

    One other gotcha would be that you can't trade-in an American game here (in Game, xtra-vision or Gamestop), because they don't take them. You can sell them on adverts or ebay, though.

    Hope that helps.
    EA do tend to region lock theirs alright, but Ubisoft dont, Activision dont (IIRC), most MS games arent


  • #10
    Carroller
    Registered Users Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Carroller


    This might help

    http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Region_Free_Xbox_360_Games


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