Will American PSP play european games

I'm looking into getting a PSP from the US.

Do you know if the US PSP will play the european games or will there be compatabilitity problems?

thanks,
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I think that it can, but I might be wrong?

 

yes a psp can play any umd's from any country
UMD stands for universal media disc.
But for some reason shops wont allow the games if you trade them in?

 

actually the psp wont play all UMDS. It will play all UMD games from another country but you wont be able to play a UMD movie from another country. the UMD movies are the only ones that are region encoded.

 

Yeah that's wierd, cause my bro bought a umd off ebay that was from another country and it wouldn't play on mine when i had 2.6, but would on his (He also bought his psp online). so i had to downgrade to 1.5 then use devhook to emulate the firmware and it worked fine. Might've just been a one off thing though....

 

@hexitnow

really? so if i bought 8 mile movie umd (Canadian)it wouldnt work on my eur psp?

 

yeah the umd movies are rigion protected so no alex it wont work

 

The 3 PSP Music UMDs out here in the US are region coded too. But All my games say region 1 even though they are region free.

 

word? i dint know that i thougt those music umd's were region free

 

Does devhook unlock your psp though?? or is the region block hardware related??

 

I didn't know about this region thing..go thing I put my mp3's and mp4's on my psp instead of movie umds

 

yeah i was thinking the same thing as rhazel thats a good question maybe hex would know

 

the region codes still exist on devhook. i had a friend that tried the spiderman UMD that was from a different region then his and it wouldnt boot it.

 

lol just like i said lol o yeah hex u still have extra lcd's? i need a new one and ebay ova priceing them

 

I've opened/edited a few .bin and .sfo files within dumped iso's and found a few things that might be able to change the region code...all you'd have to do is change the number i reckon. but i don't have a foreign umd to try it.

no one buys the umd movies anyway...just encode them...region free...

 

some of em on ebay are fairly priced LCD's are one thing i dont carry to much of although i have to order about 4 of them in the near future to fix all these psp's lying around my room. if your backlight still works just get one of the ones without the backlight. they go for like 30 bux.

 

What if you used a Japenese or European firmware dump in Devhook?

 

yeah i guess i should just search harder and w8 till a good deal comes by dang i dint get my sig right

 

too much effort over nothing. Sony are apparently discontinuing the umd movies anyway...so who cares.

 

yeah thats what i here turns out it dint make as much money as they thougt it would o yeah can any one help with my sig im not sure what i did wrong