X box help needed

born_blonde

I wonder if anyone could help or advise?

After 2 years of waiting my Husband managed to order Painkiller for his X box, through Amazon Market place, from a trader in Canada.

When it arrived and he tried to play it he got the message invalid game.

It is not a fake and came sealed but we now see it says for NTCS designation boxes only.
We thought the X box was international so what is this?

Is there anything we can do?
And if the worse comes to the worse will we be able to get a refund or just mark it down to experience?
Any advice gratefully received.

j_davies

Xboxs are regional coded or no coded at all it depends if it has a region then yes its coded so your saying it says NTSC (National Television System Committee) then yep its coded for the following countries via this link.

kingmonkey

Did the Amazon market place person advertise it as NTSC?

You could put a mod chip in, but I don't know if that is legal.

Neato

How do you tell if you have a region coded xbox?

cdbrown

I didn't realize there was any non region coded xbox's. I thought they were all region coded (perhaps except those from Japan).

You could put in a mod chip, or perform a softmod to bypass the region checks. Plenty of sites around showing exactly what to do.

Little_John

All xboxes are region coded, to remove the protection preventing games from other regions and games to be played from back up disks you need to modify the xbox with a modchip.