Template talk:User Region Free

What the hell is regional lockout?! 00:02, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Whoa, dude, calm down. You know how Japanese games won't work in an American Wii, and vice versa, along with pretty much any other combination that you can think of? That, sir, is regional lockout. Most everyone hates it. I asked about it once, and they said that the reasoning behind it was to "secure the market" or whatever. They apparently don't want people buying games from other countries. My thought though is that if someone (like myself!) wants to play games from another country, they're going to buy them anyway. Along with a system of that country (or just modify their existing system; like I do!). They can't make it illegal. :D 02:13, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The Nintendo DS, unlike the Wii, is region free. Any DS game will work in any Nintendo DS, provided that the DS can support the game's language graphics. For example, a Chinese DS game won't work on an American DS. That is because of that the Chinese characters can't be properly displayed by any other system than a Chinese one. But a Chinese DS will correctly play any game from anywhere in the world. 03:50, June 29, 2008 (UTC)


 * This holds true for all of Nintendo's handhelds, bizarrely enough, but none of their consoles. Sony and Microsoft are the same way (although I don't think that the PSP is region-free). It's funny, though, because the NES, SNES and N64 games don't have their lockout built into the game and systems' coding. There are just little tabs that are slightly different shapes that actually prevent the games from being inserted. I know, I have several Japanese games for these systems. They don't do this for the handhelds, though! No idea why. 03:56, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok. I SUPPORT. 16:03, 29 June 2008 (UTC)