May I play this game?

[Hoax]

Yeah, I thought this would be a good as place as any to ask this. Would I be able to play any games I have bought in the UK in an Australian Xbox 360 or PC and vice-versa? Assuming I use a plug adapter, of course.

 

[Easykill]

That made sense before you added in the plug adapter, now I'm just confused.

 

[Nugoo]

I think he brought the Xbox to the UK, not the games to Australia. Also, the PC games shouldn't have any problems, but I don't know about the Xbox ones.

 

[Hoax]

Australian Plug:

http://img.alibaba.com/photo/51023758/Australian_plug.jpg

British Plug:

http://www.washington.edu/computing/global/plug_g.png

British-Australian plug adapter:

http://www.cable-trader.co.uk/images/intercontinental%20travel%20adapter.jpg

Yeah, I plan to leave for Australia in about a year, I'm not sure if I should sell my Xbox and games beforehand though.

 

[richasr]

The power issue shouldn't be a factor in whether you can play them in Australia or not. But if you kept your Xbox and bought games over there, they wouldn't work.

 

[njsykora]

A PC game will work regardless as there's no region protection on a PC. The 360 stuff might work as there's no region protection on the 360 either but the region coding is on the games. Some games will work and others won't.

You won't be able to transfer your Live account though if you're moving to another country. Microsoft just won't do it from what some people have told me.

 

[portuga-man]

holy crap you guys have some messed-up plugs right there o0

http://www.logodesignweb.com/stockphoto/objects/electronics/plug.jpg
a nornal plug.

 

[Squoig]

You should be able to play UK 360 games on an Australian 360 and vice-versa as both systems are PAL format. This is true of all consoles in the UK and Australia.

PC games are fine too as there's no region encoding on the PC for games.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Wait.. you need adapters for video games to play them on British or Australian-bought consoles?
Man, and I thought I had tough stuff to deal with being Canadian.

 

[Benny Blanco]

You should be able to play UK 360 games on an Australian 360 and vice-versa as both systems are PAL format. This is true of all consoles in the UK and Australia.

PC games are fine too as there's no region encoding on the PC for games.

Are you sure about that? I held off on getting some games in the Philippines to play on my (UK) PC as the sign specifically mentioned that the game wasn't designed to work on US or European PCs. I think that's more of an exception to the rule than anything else, but it might start getting more widespread.

 

[Easykill]

holy crap you guys have some messed-up plugs right there o0

http://www.logodesignweb.com/stockphoto/objects/electronics/plug.jpg
a nornal plug.

Good to hear it. What's a nornal?

 

[Kermi]

As long as your TV is capable of PAL60 you should be able to run any PAL format game on your 360 that hasn't specifically been region locked by the game publisher.

 

[portuga-man]

i know i brought nothing significant to the thread. sorry about that
(but those plugs actually freaked me out)

 

[AngryMan]

holy crap you guys have some messed-up plugs right there o0

http://www.logodesignweb.com/stockphoto/objects/electronics/plug.jpg
a nornal plug.

Give me the british variety any day. See that third pin at the top? That's the Earth - it grounds the gizmo so we don't run the risk of suffering electric shocks of our OWN FUCKING KITCHEN APPLIANCES

Seriously, I've been zapped by too many American fridges while going to get a drink for it to be funny any longer.

 

[Squoig]

Are you sure about that? I held off on getting some games in the Philippines to play on my (UK) PC as the sign specifically mentioned that the game wasn't designed to work on US or European PCs. I think that's more of an exception to the rule than anything else, but it might start getting more widespread.

Yep, pretty sure that they'd work. They probably didn't have an English language option I'm guessing.

There's no region encoding on PC games. First person to prove me wrong wins half a pint of chocolate milk.

 

[Bodb]

I dunno, depends. If it's cross-continental, I doubt it, especially because it uses cds.

 

[Nugoo]

Are you sure about that? I held off on getting some games in the Philippines to play on my (UK) PC as the sign specifically mentioned that the game wasn't designed to work on US or European PCs. I think that's more of an exception to the rule than anything else, but it might start getting more widespread.

Yep, pretty sure that they'd work. They probably didn't have an English language option I'm guessing.

There's no region encoding on PC games. First person to prove me wrong wins half a pint of chocolate milk.

I can prove you right. I've bought PC games in Tanzania (Africa), and Dubai (Middle-East, UAE specifically), and they work fine here in Canada.