   PS2 'PAL imports'? On a UK PS2?
  I thought UK PS2 consoles ran PAL games, as opposed to whatever the US has. But I've seen a couple of online stores selling 'PAL imports'. How are these different from the games I'd buy on the high-street, and will a normal UK PS2 play them?I don't plan to start trying to crack my PS2 or anything - just want to know if these games will work.   
Quote:Original post by d000hgI thought UK PS2 consoles ran PAL games, as opposed to whatever the US has. But I've seen a couple of online stores selling 'PAL imports'. How are these different from the games I'd buy on the high-street, and will a normal UK PS2 play them?I don't plan to start trying to crack my PS2 or anything - just want to know if these games will work.These stores were probably selling to US people with import PAL playstations. I'm not exactly sure why we'd have them, but whatever :P.I'd assume they work on all PAL systems.   ;  That would make sense, except I've seen UK online stores and people selling on the UK eBay doing this - and surely the only Brits not to have PAL PS2s would be those who got a cheaper US version and cracked it?!   ;  I think the reason for this is because the retailer wants to make sure that you know its the PAL version they are selling. As websites are accessable from all over the globe (unlike popping into your local gamestation) they want to make it clear to any potential oversea's customers that they are only selling PAL games.   ;  A PAL import doesn't really make much sense - PAL is always the last territory to get a release (both of games and hardware), and the only reasons to import are to get things either earlier or ones that don't receive a release in your own territory (which never happens with PAL, what with it being last[1]).[1] The only exception to this might be Australia. Australia is a PAL territory, but is sometimes a month or so behind EU PAL. Or conversely, very rarely a Aus PAL game gets released before the EU PAL version (as theres much less translation and localisation needed).   ;  I've been looking over the net and apparently you can get PAL versions of NTSC games, which run 17% slower (because of 60Hz Vs 50Hz issue). Now these would presumably only be dodgy copies, not the kind a real shop would sell?   