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DS Handheld to be Region Free

Posted by Zonk on from the one-people-under-two-screens dept.

Thanks to GamingHeadlines for the news that DS games are not going to be region restricted. "Although this news may not specifically cater to American and Japanese folks, it certainly gives us Europeans the benefit of importing our DS systems from abroad..." I certainly think it caters to US gamers. Imported Japanese games can lead to wonderful things.

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  1. Re:Region locked? by Zangief · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apparently, the PSP will be soprt a region lock too...Sony probably can't do better than that.

  2. Your beef is with the console maker or developer by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    European released carts always have a language selector, which delays access to the game.

    Not necessarily. If a console supports setting the systemwide locale, then a language select menu delays access to the console's first boot by ten seconds or less and does not delay access to subsequent boots of the console no matter which game you insert. Even without a systemwide locale setting in the console's BIOS, developers can put locale settings on a memory card or on the Game Pak; for instance Super Smash Bros. (U), Super Smash Bros. Melee (U), and Puyo Pop (U) do this.