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Title: playing USA bought games in Ireland/UK
Post by: cmac50 on February 14, 2005, 09:03:42 AM: Hello forum members,

I am hoping that someone here will be able to help me with this query.

My son (lucky devil that he is) is just back home from a trip to LA.
Whilst there he bought 4 games for himself but unfortunately they will
not play on his Gamecube. He's only 10 yrs old so didn't realise they
would be in a different format.

Can anyone please suggest what he can do?
I'd be extremely grateful.

Thank you,
Christopher McCreedy.
cmac@esatclear.ie

Click here to contact me
Title: RE:playing USA bought games in Ireland/UK
Post by: Bill Aurion on February 14, 2005, 09:07:02 AM: Buy a Freeloader and you'll be set...
Title: RE:playing USA bought games in Ireland/UK
Post by: IceCold on February 14, 2005, 02:55:28 PM: yea i was just about to suggest the freeloader

and btw - wow, when i was 10 i couldnt even get out of the house~
Title: RE: playing USA bought games in Ireland/UK
Post by: Gamefreak on February 14, 2005, 08:48:48 PM: What Bill said.
By the way, if you ever go back to the US, know that handheld games (such as the Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS) work on any region. A British Game Boy or DS will play Japanese or American games perfectly.
Title: RE: playing USA bought games in Ireland/UK
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on February 15, 2005, 01:58:15 AM: *nods* I own a Freeloader myself and have never had a problem. Other than some games have a weird tendency not to be able to save data when using Freeloader, such as using a Japanese Donkey Konga on a US GameCube.
Title: RE: playing USA bought games in Ireland/UK
Post by: KDR_11k on February 15, 2005, 04:46:43 AM: I haven't encountered any issues with the Freeloader yet, the only annoyance is the whole disc swapping thing.
Title: RE:playing USA bought games in Ireland/UK
Post by: Hemmorrhoid on February 15, 2005, 07:53:04 AM: still, much less of an ordeal than some pc games
Title: RE: playing USA bought games in Ireland/UK
Post by: Gamefreak on February 15, 2005, 07:52:35 PM: Well new PC games are usually very tame after you get past installing it (they need to never ship a game on 5 CDs again! what's wrong with a DVD?).
You don't even need to check for patches anymore since the game will automatically download any new patches whenever you try to play online. And if you play single player only then patches probably won't affect you anyway.