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Xbox To Use Region-Locked Peripherals

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the could-things-get-any-more-annoying dept.

Cutriss writes "This newspost over at National Console Supply Exchange seems to leave all the potential Xbox controller-importers in the dust. Apparently the US Xbox will only allow peripherals with a specific USB ID to connect to the console, thus locking out the use of Japanese controllers, which will have different USB IDs." Update this doesn't mean all peripherals will be region encoded. Apparently Joypads will work on both sides of the pond.

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  1. Re:How Ghey by toupsie · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    rm -rf /;kill -9 -1;poweroff

    This didn't work in Windows XP! What am I doing wrong?

    8P

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  2. Re:How Ghey by SkewlD00d · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1) reformat
    2) install slackware.

    =)

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