I have just played a NTSC demo disc from Atari on my Aussie Xbox and it loaded, played and opperated fine.

Has anyone else had similar experiences with NTSC form at games.

If this IS the case, then there are a whole lot more amazine Xbox games available to us Aussie players.

Anyone had a similar experience ??

I would like to know more about this like what's NTSC demo disc and how would it benithit you if you only could do this.

The NTSC format is used on ALL games in the USA, Canada and South America. It is a rating laid down by the National Televison System Committee in the US.

The NTSC Format actually stands for National Television Standard Code. The majority of the world ie:- UK, Europe, Australia, New Zeland etc etc, uses the PAL format for both DVD's and Games on either Nintento, PS1&2, Xbox etc etc.

Usually you can't play a NTSC format disc on a PS2 or other game consoles, and to do so you need a product (disc) called Action Replay.

It allows you to run different formats (Regions) on such things as PS2 etc.

I have afriend who works for Atari, they often get Demo disc's (not for sale items only) to play, she got a copy of Magic, The Gathering - BattleGrounds and is NTSC format.

Out of curiosity, I thought I'd drop it into my Xbox to see what actually happens.

And blow me down, it loaded, played and did all it was suppossed to do, without me havingto use and other program such as Action Replay, which you MUST use on PS2.

So I am goingto try and locat another NTSC formated game and see if it plays also on my Xbox. I'll keep you informed.

Anyone else had similar experiences with NTSC, good or bad.?

Seeyah . . Merlin53

Man thats awesome ! I need to try that out with the US xbox demo disc that comes packed with the official US xbox mag that they sell at the american bookstore.

Hope it works

Cool, let me know how it does go, be interesting to see if it works on other Xbox's . . be GREAT if it does eh!

i have a NTSC version of wolfenstine, it works but i thought that was only cos i have a mod chip, i could be mistaken tho.

i went to pakistan got heaps of ntsc games for really cheap around $5 per game when i came home i put it in my xbox a screen came up saying please insert an xbox disk. would action replay fix this problem?

Yes Action Relpay would allow you to do this. See the folowing link, I have seen them on eBay Australia, but don't pay anything more than $AU100 for it okay. RRP is $AU99.95 at Toy-R-Us at Moore Park Sydney.

Here's a link to help you out:
http://www.mod-chip.com/xboxarinfo.htm

Here's the results of a google search for "xbox eyetoy" you'll notice it looked for both words in the same section, so it worked on some sites. but it helps, always try google.com where you can.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Action+Replay+software&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

No one heading Japan is there ? ? ? or has relo's or friends there ? ? ? I would like to see if I can locate someting over there if it's at all possible.

Cheers . . . Merlin53

um.... i have Action Replay Max on PS2 and i can't use it to play NTSC games on the PAL ps2! what are you guys on about???!
action replay is a total rip off and i should have just spent the $90 on chipping my ps2 instead...