[courderoy guy]

Hey all - a really (possibly really, really) dumb question.

If I were to buy a CD-ROM PC Game from the United Kingdom, will it play in my American PC? There's no region coding or PAL-NTSC issue, is there?

Reason being is I'm looking on behalf of both myself and for my wife (thanks, Grim Fandango!) to pick up Broken Sword (Circle of Blood), the original. Plenty of copies can be found online from the UK but only a few from the US.

[Legolas813]

Yeah I too am about to order Circle of Blood from the UK. I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work. I don't think PC games have that regional coding on them.

Not a dumb question. I've often thought that myself.

[Karmillo]

Nope no reigon coding on PC games, the only time you ever need to take that into account is with MMO's as the keycode tells you what servers youll be playing on

But thats not a problem in this case

[Melanie68]

BS1 - Circle of Blood from the UK worked fine on my laptop.

[tabacco]

PAL/NTSC is only an issue with videoo signals to TVs and the like. VGA is all good

I say go for it!

[courderoy guy]

Cool. Thanks for the quick replies!

[Hammerite]

Broken Sword from the UK work'd on my computer too... then again, it's not surprising since I'm from the UK.

[Erwin_Br]

Originally Posted by tabacco

PAL/NTSC is only an issue with videoo signals to TVs and the like. VGA is all good

I say go for it!

Is that still an issue? I mean, our TV (a 4 year old Sony Wega) supports both. And so does our old VCR.

--Erwin

[seebaruk]

So that's why I can't find any games I'm looking for, you bloody yanks are nicking them all off us

[EvilMulder]

Originally Posted by Erwin_Br

Is that still an issue? I mean, our TV (a 4 year old Sony Wega) supports both. And so does our old VCR.

--Erwin

IIRC allmost all relatively new European systems can play both PAL and NTSC but not all American systems can play PAL.

[Legolas813]

Originally Posted by Erwin_Br

Is that still an issue? I mean, our TV (a 4 year old Sony Wega) supports both. And so does our old VCR.

--Erwin

Yeah, but if we are talking about video games it is still an issue. An Xbox or PS2 here in the U.S. will not play PAL games (unless it is modded) and vice versa.

[courderoy guy]

Originally Posted by Legolas813

Yeah, but if we are talking about video games it is still an issue. An Xbox or PS2 here in the U.S. will not play PAL games (unless it is modded) and vice versa.

Yeah, that's why I asked. But I figured PC games were probably different. However, I wanted to make sure before I sunk some cash into a shipment from the UK.

[fov]

I've never had a problem running PC games from Europe.

[hypermusician]

As said before, PC games should be fine. One thing to bear in mind though, Broken Sword 1 was called Shadow of the Templars in the UK, not Circle of Blood (I still don't understand why so many games have different names in the UK/US).

[RLacey]

Originally Posted by hypermusician

As said before, PC games should be fine. One thing to bear in mind though, Broken Sword 1 was called Shadow of the Templars in the UK, not Circle of Blood (I still don't understand why so many games have different names in the UK/US).

Because stupid Yanks don't understand clever Latin titles like In Memoriam.

j/k. I actually have no real idea why this happens.

[Gonchi]

Originally Posted by courderoy guy

Yeah, that's why I asked. But I figured PC games were probably different. However, I wanted to make sure before I sunk some cash into a shipment from the UK.

I own games from Asia, Oceania, Europe and North America, and I can assure you there is no region encoding on PC games; CD or DVD versions.

So purchase away and enjoy.