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Hello I am one of those sad people that has just purchased a PS2
recently I bought Final Fantasy vii off an American website I know its a PS1 game but the PS2 is backwards compatable.
Anyway it comes up with an error when I try to run it asking for a format disk or something like that I cant remember exactly what it said
My question is will American PS2 games run on a european PS2 machine or are games area specific anyway thanks in your help in advance and if this is a stuipid question my apoligies(also for spelling mistakes)
recently I bought Final Fantasy vii off an American website I know its a PS1 game but the PS2 is backwards compatable.
Anyway it comes up with an error when I try to run it asking for a format disk or something like that I cant remember exactly what it said
My question is will American PS2 games run on a european PS2 machine or are games area specific anyway thanks in your help in advance and if this is a stuipid question my apoligies(also for spelling mistakes)
Hello I am one of those sad people that has just purchased a PS2
recently I bought Final Fantasy vii off an American website I know its a PS1 game but the PS2 is backwards compatable.
Anyway it comes up with an error when I try to run it asking for a format disk or something like that I cant remember exactly what it said
My question is will American PS2 games run on a european PS2 machine or are games area specific anyway thanks in your help in advance and if this is a stuipid question my apoligies(also for spelling mistakes)
recently I bought Final Fantasy vii off an American website I know its a PS1 game but the PS2 is backwards compatable.
Anyway it comes up with an error when I try to run it asking for a format disk or something like that I cant remember exactly what it said
My question is will American PS2 games run on a european PS2 machine or are games area specific anyway thanks in your help in advance and if this is a stuipid question my apoligies(also for spelling mistakes)
American games will not run on a European console and the other way round.
theres 3 regions. no idea which area has eachj number. But Uk is in one of em...US in another and japan in another...
They don't have numbers. It's PAL (Europe), NTSC (America)... and... erm... JAP? I don't know what it's called for Japan. :P
hmm i dunno i DEFINATELY know that it is regions for DVD's. Thnk its the same for games.
PAL and NTSC are related to it though, jap has NTSC as well but is in a nother region if i can remmeber correctly..
PAL and NTSC are related to it though, jap has NTSC as well but is in a nother region if i can remmeber correctly..
American games will not run on European PS2's. We have PAL format and America has NTSC.
PAL/NTSC has nothing at all to do with it - if your TV isn't NTSC compatible, you can buy adapters.
The issue is that games are regionally coded, much like DVDs - but there are fewer regions. When you 'chip' the machine, it basically over-rides the regional coding.
But regardless, as US game will not function on an un-modified console.
The issue is that games are regionally coded, much like DVDs - but there are fewer regions. When you 'chip' the machine, it basically over-rides the regional coding.
But regardless, as US game will not function on an un-modified console.
Didn't see it mentioned below, so I thought I'd add that we are Region 2 for things like DVDs, where as America are Region 1, so if you order DVDs, the same rules apply. To play region 1 DVDs, you can buy a region x kit, to get rid of the restrictions (also gets rid of the "green screen" when using an RGB cable), but I am unaware of any similar remedy that can be used for the gaming side, other than getting all Jack Sparrow about things.