Xbox 360 hack changes DVD key, game region

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TheGuy @ Jul 18th 2007 12:49PM

Wow, this is awesome. With this hack 360 games on your hacked console are virtually region-free. If only someone was clever enough to develop a hack for the PS3 to play its games region-free...OH WAIT!!! IT ALREADY DOES!!!

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Hostile slick inbound @ Jul 21st 2007 4:06PM

yep, all three.

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paloooz @ Jul 18th 2007 1:02PM

I don't quite see the benefit of region coding, nor do I see the benefit of bypassing it.

How many people get games and movies from other regions and try to play them in their player?

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Rob @ Jul 18th 2007 1:41PM

"paloooz", there are many benefits to getting movies, and games, from other regions and being able to enjoy them. There are many movies, or versions of, that are never released in the States for one reason or another, but made available in Japan, just to pick a country. Plus, if say, the games released in your country suck, but you'd like to get the ones from another one, then you should be able to. Also, say you enjoy a show/movie and bought the content from some country you lived in, or visited, and would like to bring it States' side, you should be able to watch it without having to worry about this region nonsense.

You're not pirating anything, you're still paying for it, and the parties involved are getting paid too. So, what's the problem. It's a huge advantage.

Why does MS tell you "you can't", but Sony says "yes you can", is beyond me. Call Billy and ask him.

I can understand that Region coding is done because content is released in different parts of the world at different times. But, other than that, it makes absolutely no sense at all.

Oh, and to answer your question... a lot of people do this.

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KC @ Jul 18th 2007 1:57PM

@paloooz, you may not see the need for region-free, but lots of others outside of the USA might want to play the US version of a DVD/game.

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paloooz @ Jul 18th 2007 2:07PM

Makes sense. Thanks.

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ethana2 @ Jul 18th 2007 6:21PM

I don't see the point of region coding either- nor any other form of drm. I'd hack the heck out of it for anger's sake if nothing else... But I use a pc to do everything (I don't like consoles or dvd players or any of that at all) so I usually don't have all that much trouble with them.

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