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It arrived today. Even though I had a US PSP serial number the yourpsp website let me register for a free Region 2 UMD of Spiderman 2 on the launch day of the PSP in the UK. It arrived this morning, so to satisfy my curiosity and suspicion that Sony were blowing hot air about region coding on the PSP I put it in to see what error message I got about the region formatting and I didn't get one.
So, are the Spidermand 2 UMDs a special region free version to save sony time, or are the European PSPs even more of a rip-off since they are over-priced and massively delayed units which turned out to be absolutely identical to the US PSPs in every single way even down to the software and movies which they will play?
I smell a conspiracy, but as I'm not silly enough to buy a UK UMD movie at the price retaillers here are charging for them, and have no wish to watch a movie on that small a screen unless I have a long loney journey coming up, I'm not likely to find out. It just interested me.
So, are the Spidermand 2 UMDs a special region free version to save sony time, or are the European PSPs even more of a rip-off since they are over-priced and massively delayed units which turned out to be absolutely identical to the US PSPs in every single way even down to the software and movies which they will play?
I smell a conspiracy, but as I'm not silly enough to buy a UK UMD movie at the price retaillers here are charging for them, and have no wish to watch a movie on that small a screen unless I have a long loney journey coming up, I'm not likely to find out. It just interested me.
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There should be region information on the back of the UMD case. There is on the games.
I wouldn't be surprised, though, if they're the equivalent of Region 0 DVDs.
I wouldn't be surprised, though, if they're the equivalent of Region 0 DVDs.
It arrived today. Even though I had a US PSP serial number the yourpsp website let me register for a free Region 2 UMD of Spiderman 2 on the launch day of the PSP in the UK. It arrived this morning, so to satisfy my curiosity and suspicion that Sony were blowing hot air about region coding on the PSP I put it in to see what error message I got about the region formatting and I didn't get one.
So, are the Spidermand 2 UMDs a special region free version to save sony time, or are the European PSPs even more of a rip-off since they are over-priced and massively delayed units which turned out to be absolutely identical to the US PSPs in every single way even down to the software and movies which they will play?
I smell a conspiracy, but as I'm not silly enough to buy a UK UMD movie at the price retaillers here are charging for them, and have no wish to watch a movie on that small a screen unless I have a long loney journey coming up, I'm not likely to find out. It just interested me.
So, are the Spidermand 2 UMDs a special region free version to save sony time, or are the European PSPs even more of a rip-off since they are over-priced and massively delayed units which turned out to be absolutely identical to the US PSPs in every single way even down to the software and movies which they will play?
I smell a conspiracy, but as I'm not silly enough to buy a UK UMD movie at the price retaillers here are charging for them, and have no wish to watch a movie on that small a screen unless I have a long loney journey coming up, I'm not likely to find out. It just interested me.
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