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[Ebes]

Hey yall

talking to the western gamers in korea. If you brought over a 360 from say, the states or canada, what issues do you have to deal with in setting it up for

a) offline play? ie power converters, power supplies, different cables for TV or HDMI...

b) online play? changing your Live account over to the asian region, getting online, lag?

c) If i leave it at home, and buy a wii or pstripple or any console in asia, can you get asian region game discs in english? I know xbox 360 region locks their discs, but does this mean an asian game sold in korea will only have korean translation, with no chance to play in english?

Thanks for any help you can provide before the big move. Evidently, I've never ben to Asia before. : )

[Ebes]

anybody?

[mrsquirrel]

Get a power convertor when you get here and it will work.

Don't just plug it into the wall.

[Ebes]

do you mean, like, another of those giant black transformers that ships with the xbox itself, or just a converter to plug into the wall like you'd use for any travelling electronic device in another country? just for clarity's sake.
thanks.

[denverdeath]

He means this...

http://search.danawa.com/dsearch.php?tab=goods&k1=%BA%AF%BE%D0%B1%E2&x=0&y=0

If you read the power ratings on that black power brick you were talking about, you will see it showing 120V(I believe - I bought mine here and it says 200-240V on it). I'm pretty sure yours would blow if you plugged it directly into the wall with a simple adapter. However, if it shows 110-240V or sth similar, you'd be okay.

From what I know about cables, they'll be similar. I had the component cable in the box and bought the HDMI cable separately. It'll depend on what kind of TV you have/buy here.

Unsure about the online play.

This site has lots of info wrt game/system compatibility...

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-00-3-xbox360_compatibility_guide-49-en-84-3.html

Here's the ps3 stuff...

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-14-71-zi-49-en.html

Wii...

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-14-71-10q-49-en.html

Anyway, check the back of the games before you buy them. At least you'd be able to play NHL 08(or any kind of hockey at all) with the ps3 here, sth which is difficult/impossible with the xbox360(ntsc/j) console bought here.

[Ebes]

Thanks for the replies. Mucho appreciated-o.