Just purchased a game for my daughter, from Junction 8 Bishan, It doesn't work, and now i have had a good look at the hologram and compared it to my others, i'm quite sure it's a copy!
When i insert the disc it comes up with wrong region, at 35$ a hit, I'm a little cheesed off, that i have to make the trip again to exchange it.
I was wondering if this is normal practise in Singapore, I have been informed I can chip my machine and it will play all the copies, but there again, I am paying 35$ for something i believe to be original.
If i wanted a copy, there are lots at 10$, just wondering what others think of this little stitch up, I guess most machines in Singapore are probably chipped, and therefor would play a copy with no problem, but you would be cheesed off paying 35$ for one.
But i'm a little ---- off, that i expected an original X - box game, when i pay top $, its an old game, the new games are 69$
My question is how many would report this shop to microsoft?
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well I didn't report the shop, I decided to see what he had to say for himself, after i checked my x -box documentation. It turned out that he had sold me a USA disc, when i have a Singaporean X-box, and was under the impression, that everyone gets them rechipped.
I politely told him, for the sake of all customers, to at least have a sign up, to inform people of the difference, between the Singapore X- box games and the USA versions. I mean I'm living in Singapore and i expect a Singapore version, unless I state, that I require a different region.
Anyway, he wouldn't reimburse my travel costs, so i demanded my money back! because he was also high priced compared to other shops. You live and learn!
Although my 5 year old daughter wasn't very happy, that she didn't get her game, just yet! I guess I will be the one, that gets scolded, when she gets home today!
I politely told him, for the sake of all customers, to at least have a sign up, to inform people of the difference, between the Singapore X- box games and the USA versions. I mean I'm living in Singapore and i expect a Singapore version, unless I state, that I require a different region.
Anyway, he wouldn't reimburse my travel costs, so i demanded my money back! because he was also high priced compared to other shops. You live and learn!
Although my 5 year old daughter wasn't very happy, that she didn't get her game, just yet! I guess I will be the one, that gets scolded, when she gets home today!
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Xbox's sold in Singapore are NTSC -J ( Japan) the other 2 flavours are NTSC and PAL.
It's alwasys annoyed me why there has to be different systems when 99% of Tv's nowdays are multisytem.
In fact there are some games not even available in NTSC-J ( Rugby 2005 for instance)
For the record it is not illegal to chip your x box to enable it to play games from other regions.
I have chipped mine to enable media player ..legal and a free download, so i can play DVD's wmf's, avi's etc. It also allows me to run Linux on my xbox ...All perfectly legal. I can also play any game from any region. Still legal.
What illegal is the copying of xbox games and using these copies ( unless you own the original)
There's a guy in Singapore who can even softmod your xbox ( no chip needed) to enable the same functions. Think he's on ebay.sg or used to be.
I object to paying 60 + dollars for a game and yet i still do. What i object more to is people ripping off other peoples work and selling it for a quick profit.
I'm not familiar with the Xbox 360 ( yet
) but it wouldn't surprise me if the lovely people at MS make it region dependant too. So beware.
It's alwasys annoyed me why there has to be different systems when 99% of Tv's nowdays are multisytem.
In fact there are some games not even available in NTSC-J ( Rugby 2005 for instance)
For the record it is not illegal to chip your x box to enable it to play games from other regions.
I have chipped mine to enable media player ..legal and a free download, so i can play DVD's wmf's, avi's etc. It also allows me to run Linux on my xbox ...All perfectly legal. I can also play any game from any region. Still legal.
What illegal is the copying of xbox games and using these copies ( unless you own the original)
There's a guy in Singapore who can even softmod your xbox ( no chip needed) to enable the same functions. Think he's on ebay.sg or used to be.
I object to paying 60 + dollars for a game and yet i still do. What i object more to is people ripping off other peoples work and selling it for a quick profit.
I'm not familiar with the Xbox 360 ( yet

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