Anyone know if it has it, or is it region free like DS?
PSP Regional Encoding
- Thread starter Dave Baumann
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AFAIK it DOES have regional encoding, but the decision to use it or not is entirely made in software. So one game may implement it whilst another doesn't.
Movie playback on the device; dunno. I guess that's more likely to have regional encoding much like DVDs.
No doubt someone else will fill in the details for me.
Movie playback on the device; dunno. I guess that's more likely to have regional encoding much like DVDs.
No doubt someone else will fill in the details for me.
Everything I've read suggests that PSP games are region-free.
UMD movies are coded, however. Though I read on one board that Japan and Europe may share the same coding and will therefore play the same movies. Can't confirm this, though.
Sorry I can't provide any links. This info's hard to come by on the FAQs and I can't remember where I found it.
UMD movies are coded, however. Though I read on one board that Japan and Europe may share the same coding and will therefore play the same movies. Can't confirm this, though.
Sorry I can't provide any links. This info's hard to come by on the FAQs and I can't remember where I found it.
hmm. my copy of wipeout pure has a mysterious icon on the back cover of the box. basically, it is a square-ish icon with a quarter of a planet in the lower left corner and the digit '1' in the upper right corner. seems suspiciously region-like to me. i have yet to check any other psp games covers, though.
darkblu said:
yup, japan games are 2 .
future games may or may not be region encoded (only time will tell)
but sony stressed many times the hardware was regionfree (to please both customers and publishers?)
now atm , all games are region free.
only UMD moviez are region locked
Mmmm, interesting. So it sounds like the regional encoding for game may be more intended for the languages?
I'm somewhat peaved that they have further delayed the Euro launch but I'll be going to the US in July at the very least, so I might pick one up then. Still, if the games do end up regionally encoded I guess Amazon delivers overseas...
I'm somewhat peaved that they have further delayed the Euro launch but I'll be going to the US in July at the very least, so I might pick one up then. Still, if the games do end up regionally encoded I guess Amazon delivers overseas...
crystalcube
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The movies and music will be region encoded but not games. Even for the sample disc the games demos work on differnt region psp but not audio/video ie if you take the sampler from US release and play it on japanese psp you will only be able to see game demos.
To enforce region coding both hardware and software has to be region coded. In fact the hardware is always region coded but software may not be e.g. games are not while movies are.
To enforce region coding both hardware and software has to be region coded. In fact the hardware is always region coded but software may not be e.g. games are not while movies are.
