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Moving to the UK With US Video Game Systems
scarmullet:
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--- Quote from: razielleonhart on August 04, 2012, 01:50:34 AM ---Well i am going to be moving to the UK and I am going to be keeping all my video game stuff. I just want to know what i can do to get a few older systems to run out in the UK. The System i need help with is NES, SNES, Sega Gen, Sega 32x, Sega CD, PSX, PSOne, PS2 Fat, PS2 Slim, Xbox 1, Game Cube, Sega Saturn, also need to know about my 3DS, GBA SP, and PSP Go....
...Also any help for the famicom and the famicom disk system that i want to buy later on...
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as others have said you would need a step-down transformer, also i just thought id mention the whole PAL/NTSC thing, as nobody else has, basically for example your NTSC PSOne wont play PAL/UK PS discs, same goes for the other systems, unless modded they wont play PAL Carts/Discs, so you cant just walk into any game shop and buy games for these, maybe your already aware of this, and plan to import from the US...however 3DS, GBA and PSP are all region free, and will play games from uk, us or japan.
as a side note to this, high street shops will not accept NTSC carts/discs if you plan on selling/trading to them, a store which imports games from japan or the US might, but you'd have to find that out for yourself...
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3DS is region locked, as is the VITA
Arseen:
--- Quote from: scarmullet on August 05, 2012, 06:05:26 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dr.Agon on August 05, 2012, 06:01:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: razielleonhart on August 04, 2012, 01:50:34 AM ---Well i am going to be moving to the UK and I am going to be keeping all my video game stuff. I just want to know what i can do to get a few older systems to run out in the UK. The System i need help with is NES, SNES, Sega Gen, Sega 32x, Sega CD, PSX, PSOne, PS2 Fat, PS2 Slim, Xbox 1, Game Cube, Sega Saturn, also need to know about my 3DS, GBA SP, and PSP Go....
...Also any help for the famicom and the famicom disk system that i want to buy later on...
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as others have said you would need a step-down transformer, also i just thought id mention the whole PAL/NTSC thing, as nobody else has, basically for example your NTSC PSOne wont play PAL/UK PS discs, same goes for the other systems, unless modded they wont play PAL Carts/Discs, so you cant just walk into any game shop and buy games for these, maybe your already aware of this, and plan to import from the US...however 3DS, GBA and PSP are all region free, and will play games from uk, us or japan.
as a side note to this, high street shops will not accept NTSC carts/discs if you plan on selling/trading to them, a store which imports games from japan or the US might, but you'd have to find that out for yourself...
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3DS is region locked, as is the VITA
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Me thinks Vita region free is?
Dr.Agon:
--- Quote from: scarmullet on August 05, 2012, 06:05:26 PM ---3DS is region locked, as is the VITA
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are they?, if so then my bad, i was basing my response on the fact that the DS, GBA and PSP are region free, having japanese games for each of my (UK) ones
sheep2001:
Vita region free, and 3ds region locked, as arseen said.