> I salute them (whilst Europe just pirates the games)
There was this classic Playstation game called Parasite Eve that I got on US import in 1999, me and my mate LOVED it to bits (still do) After 6 months of playing it on and off round my house, my mate wanted to buy it too, thing is though, there was no Europe release date. None was ever even planned (still never got released to this day) Then I got another new game Xenogears, classic RPG, never got released in Europe. My mate starting getting really pissed off with this, so I offered to chip his PSX for him like mine. Best thing he ever did, although next problem his TV picture came out in black and white. No problem, I copied my CDs and installed a NTSC/PAL patch I downloaded from the internet in nero. Ping! That sorted it, he was now playing PAL converted American games.
You have to laugh really, I've often thought that crackers should be the translators of games. It's just a WASTED business opportunity to make a game and then NOT release it in various parts of the world. Pathetic.
Same goes today for various games for PS2, for example Katamari Damacy, you can't buy the 1st Katamari Damacy in Europe on PS2. How do you play this classic game? You get a chipped PS2, plain and simple. You can buy it in America, and instead we get shite like Fifa 2005, Sponge Bob Square Pants etc.
I've not bought a single pal game in years. The sooner we get worldwide release dates for everything (including movies/dvd releases etc) the sooner we can stop feeling jealous of each other for various things, I think this in itself would considerably cut down piracy. I've lost count the number of times I've seen a DVD rip of a film that hasn't even come out at the cinema here in the UK.
The Internet has severely closed the gap between world markets, it's a shame that distributors haven't kept up with the increase.
There was this classic Playstation game called Parasite Eve that I got on US import in 1999, me and my mate LOVED it to bits (still do) After 6 months of playing it on and off round my house, my mate wanted to buy it too, thing is though, there was no Europe release date. None was ever even planned (still never got released to this day) Then I got another new game Xenogears, classic RPG, never got released in Europe. My mate starting getting really pissed off with this, so I offered to chip his PSX for him like mine. Best thing he ever did, although next problem his TV picture came out in black and white. No problem, I copied my CDs and installed a NTSC/PAL patch I downloaded from the internet in nero. Ping! That sorted it, he was now playing PAL converted American games.
You have to laugh really, I've often thought that crackers should be the translators of games. It's just a WASTED business opportunity to make a game and then NOT release it in various parts of the world. Pathetic.
Same goes today for various games for PS2, for example Katamari Damacy, you can't buy the 1st Katamari Damacy in Europe on PS2. How do you play this classic game? You get a chipped PS2, plain and simple. You can buy it in America, and instead we get shite like Fifa 2005, Sponge Bob Square Pants etc.
I've not bought a single pal game in years. The sooner we get worldwide release dates for everything (including movies/dvd releases etc) the sooner we can stop feeling jealous of each other for various things, I think this in itself would considerably cut down piracy. I've lost count the number of times I've seen a DVD rip of a film that hasn't even come out at the cinema here in the UK.
The Internet has severely closed the gap between world markets, it's a shame that distributors haven't kept up with the increase.