xbox question
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- fifty50
I know this is really off-topic, but this is the PVN and nobody really stays on-topic these days anyways.
I was thinking about getting an xbox here in north america and taking it with me to europe for the next year, but I'm afraid that the 210 voltage might fry the north american xbox. Is this true?
It's so much cheaper to buy an xbox here in canada than getting one in germany, but if it won't work then i'm not sure i want to spend the money on a system i can only use for a year anyways (i'm moving back to north america again next december)
- gabriel20
can't you just buy a voltage converter?
- designerror0
games will not work if you buy them in Germany , because they are PAL in Europe and NTSC in North America.. that's how it works with the PS2 at least ..
- fifty500
dang, for real?
- gabriel20
hack the box and it'll play both...
- designerror0
almost sure about it.. so get a big fat harddrive in the xbox and go to blockbuster and rent all the games they have and put them on it, works perfect and then it have almost no loading time..
google how to do it..the money spend on HD and in BB is nothing compaired to what you would paid in the store ...
got 3 buddys pulling that scam already and i'm thinking of joining them .. when i get the guts for it..
- fifty500
well i have every intention to get a mod chip and a huge f*cker of a hard drive and pimp the sh*t out of it so I won't have to "buy" games at all. I just want a basic system and do the work to it myself.
- toulouz0
we got a chippped xbox with a 120 gig hard drive...works like a dream. used it for 16 months now on 1meg broadband.
we get out films from suprnova, them ftp thro our ethernet connection to the xbox hard drive and watch them on sony wega 32".
plus all the other things the xbox will do with live interactive game play.
all things are do-able
- fifty500
so then, still looking for the answer to my question:
would buying an american xbox and bringing it to europe work? will i need a voltage converter? would it be cheaper to just buy a system in europe?
- designerror0
voltage converters and xbox's are cheap in Canada, so just get that, pimp it up and bring it..
NB!!
some tv's in Europe don't support NTSC signals so make sure if you are to buy one there.. I got an old NES with 60 games in the states on eBay a while back and i only got b/w because of the reason above... so i got another one..
- Ico0
Hi friend,
Yes you will need a step down voltage converter if you buy the system in the US/CAN, you can get one here:
The system in Germany is 149 Euros. Use this currency site:
to see if you can get the system cheaper in Germany.
I hope this helps.
- Ico0
Oh, by the way. The US/CAN system can't play European games (if you intend to buy some when over in Germany). If it's just US/CAN games you want to play then all you need is the step down voltage conveter.
- fifty500
i don't plan on buying any games :P suprnova! LOL
so aside from a stepdown voltage converter, i'll need a tv that supports ntsc as well?
- designerror0
most of them do support ntsc, all i know is that the brand - Grundig doesn't! so look out for it
- fifty500
crazy. thanks