Reign-Mack
11-24-2002, 09:52 AM
I have come accross many people claiming that Unreal and various other xbox live games have no region protection they claim that the SCART (US) version of UNREAL runs on their PAL(UK) consoles without any modding or extra softwere. They also have no trouble playing over the xbox live (bet testing service).
I should be getting hold of a SCART version of UNREAL within the next few weeks to confirm this myself.
...M$ did say that the xbox would have no region protection on their hardware and that any lockout will be left up to the games publishers so maybe they were telling the truth and did nto go back on what they said back in 98. And it does seem logical that these Live games woudl be written with the exact sme code if users from different regions are to play each other, plus it would also be better for companies who do addones and patches in the future, as they only need to creat one patch that works with all regions.
I should be getting hold of a SCART version of UNREAL within the next few weeks to confirm this myself.
...M$ did say that the xbox would have no region protection on their hardware and that any lockout will be left up to the games publishers so maybe they were telling the truth and did nto go back on what they said back in 98. And it does seem logical that these Live games woudl be written with the exact sme code if users from different regions are to play each other, plus it would also be better for companies who do addones and patches in the future, as they only need to creat one patch that works with all regions.