Xbox will xbox 360 games purchesed in america work in europe

Hey there,
The systems have region codes, therefore if this game comes from another country... PAL (EUrope) display format does not work on NTSC (America)...

this will happen depending where you got your xbox from and where you are located.

There are multiple types of TV signals. Typcially two are used NTSC and PAL. If you have a TV and are in a country that supports PAL and you purchased say an XBOX from america then you will have a black and white screen or no game at all. Same thing goes if you are in america and say purchased the xbox on ebay from a perosn in europe. You will get a black and white game cause your TV is NTSC and not PAL.

Many game units will support BOTH signals but are locked to a signal of the region the console was intended for sale on.

If you can't play NTSC games then that means your xbox is probably a PAL version. There's not really much you can do about this except to buy PAL version games :(

BTW, NTSC and PAL refer to different regions. NTSC Is north america, while PAL is usually europe.

You purchased your console and the game disc in different regions/counter.
Xbox as a whole is separated by regions: (1 for North America and its Territories, 2 for Europe and 3 for Asia)
you''ll get this error message is you purchase the disc and console from different regions.

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The Xbox 360 Console is protected by region code. Basically US games will only work for US consoles same as Europe games will only work in Europe console.

This sadly means the game and Xbox 360 console aren't the same region. (Rather the game is region locked, meaning unless you have a Xbox 360 that plays those regions, the game is non-playable because the console can't read the disc.) There really isn't any solutions for this, other than take the game back to the store and ask for your money back because the region of the game doesn't play on your Xbox 360. Always make sure when buying Xbox 360 games that it's the right region code. (Or that it's a region free coded game) There are a few games like that out, one being Borderlands for example.

If it says PAL on the cover of the game for example, the game covers most of Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and most of Western Europe. (List of common PAL regions can be found here.)
There are a few other region codes for games, so you better make sure you are buying the ones for your region.
Hope this was of some help.

Well if u got a euro xbox 360 most american games WILL NOT work... =[ Ive tryed it myself

for now, there is 3 disc region codes,

ntsc for north america and south america, (united states,canada,mexico,chile and Brazi)

ntsc-j for Asia, (hongkong Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan)

pal for Europe, South africa, India Australia, and new zeland


if your console was bought in us, you should be able to use game discs with ntsc region code, this is shown on the cd itself and the case of the cd...

If the Console is NTSC then it is not compatible with the broadcast standard for SA, and only NTSC games will work in it. All games in SA should be of a PAL I Standard, so they will not work in an NTSC Console.