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Making an xbox 360 region free

  • 13-02-2011 06:54PM
    #1
    Puteq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭


    I have a friend from the States who asked what is involved in making an xbox360 region free - apparently there is a baseball game out over there and it looks like the producers are never going to bother releasing it here. He definitely does not want to mod or hack it or do anything illegal, but was hoping there was some way of getting the game to play if he bought it in the States and had it shipped over. So, I have had a quick google and looked through boards, and the only way i see of doing this would be by modding it, and i know he wont want to do anything that might get him banned from xbox live or do anything illegal. I know anything to allow this would be maybe kinda shady, but I was wondering if there was any simpler way of just getting a USA region game to play on an xbox over here without hacking the xbox too much? Thanks


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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Puteq wrote: »
    I have a friend from the States who asked what is involved in making an xbox360 region free - apparently there is a baseball game out over there and it looks like the producers are never going to bother releasing it here. He definitely does not want to mod or hack it or do anything illegal, but was hoping there was some way of getting the game to play if he bought it in the States and had it shipped over. So, I have had a quick google and looked through boards, and the only way i see of doing this would be by modding it, and i know he wont want to do anything that might get him banned from xbox live or do anything illegal. I know anything to allow this would be maybe kinda shady, but I was wondering if there was any simpler way of just getting a USA region game to play on an xbox over here without hacking the xbox too much? Thanks

    No way to do it, only way is to modify the discs region code, therefore changing the discs signature so even a modded dvd drive wouldnt work, only a JTAGed 360 can boot a modifyed disc image

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  • #3
    joker@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭joker@


    Who said that modding is illegal?You just plays own dvd backups thats it ;)


  • #4
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    The only region free 360's are jtags. As said above, modifying the regional info on a disc breaks the digitial signature from Microsoft, so nothing barring a jtag will then read the disc.


  • #5
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    joker@ wrote: »
    Who said that modding is illegal?You just plays own dvd backups thats it ;)

    Not this again? In order to create a backup, you first have to evade counter protection systems present on the disc - it then becomes illegal.


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