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Offline gj0ken
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A question about PAL
« on: May 11, 2002, 05:05:19 AM »
I was browsing through the ps2 games section at http://www.play.com when I noticed this little sentence; "Region; PAL: Will play on UK Playstation2 only"

So my question is, will I be able to play these games on a norwegian PAL machine?
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A question about PAL
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2002, 05:10:37 AM »
Yes..

PAL in UK is the same PAL as in Norway, Sweden, Germany ect.
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A question about PAL
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2002, 05:16:01 AM »
ok, thanks :)
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A question about PAL
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2002, 05:18:56 AM »
As far as I know (and a quick search turned up no difference), the region encoding is not as stringent as DVD movies... those have 7 regions, like normal (though with the DVDX CD, you can watch all regions of DVDs).  There seem to be 3 flavours of encoding for games, North America, Europe, and Asia.  

So, I think that the game will work in your PS2.

*EDIT* Heh, and in the 5 minutes I searched to make sure, you got the answer from a European.  :p
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A question about PAL
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2002, 07:57:44 AM »
One more time, PAL is used as a synonym of UK. Stupid morons!
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A question about PAL
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2002, 08:14:13 AM »
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Originally posted by Adan
One more time, PAL is used as a synonym of UK. Stupid morons!

how is PAL a synonym for the U.K please explain?:rolleyes:
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A question about PAL
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2002, 08:17:20 AM »
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Originally posted by Tyrant_246

how is PAL a synonym for the U.K please explain?:rolleyes:


That\'s just the problem! It\'s not a synonym... PAL means Europe and Australia... and Europe is not only UK!

(Excuse me if there are more PAL countries included, but i\'m not a computer)
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A question about PAL
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2002, 08:28:59 AM »
oops my bad.
sorry Adan, in yer post i thought u were trying to say that  UK meant PAL it seems i totally misunderstood u .
silly me :p
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A question about PAL
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2002, 08:35:50 AM »
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Originally posted by Tyrant_246
oops my bad.
sorry Adan, in yer post i thought u were trying to say that  UK meant PAL it seems i totally misunderstood u .
silly me :p


Don\'t worry dude, my english sucks a lot :p
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A question about PAL
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2002, 01:52:48 PM »
yeah it should work, ive one shop i used to go into, sold games cheaper ( cos they bought them in france) worked fine here thogh, as u could choose the language to play in
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A question about PAL
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2002, 03:52:33 AM »
Thanks for all the help ppl ;)
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