A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or...

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1996. Although each version is essentially the same, several forms of regional lockout prevent cartridges for one version from being used in other versions...

purchasing The Orange Box through cheaper, market retailers. Due to regional lockout, video game consoles and their games are often subjected to grey market...

GB in the OLED version) or on a microSDXC card. The Switch has no regional lockout features, freely allowing games from any region to be played on any...

NTSC-C is a regional lockout created in 2003 by Sony Computer Entertainment for the official launch of its PlayStation 2 gaming system into the mainland...

entirely (useful for benchmarking purposes). Some consoles have a regional lockout, preventing the user from being able to play games outside of the designated...

genuine region 1 players. Many "multi-region" DVD players defeated regional lockout and RCE by automatically identifying and matching a disc's region code...

killed. Regional lockout (or region coding) prevents the use of a certain product or service, except in a specific region or territory. Lockout may be...

for a lawsuit. Lockout functions are commonly used in printers to prevent the use of third-party ink or toner cartridges. Regional lockout CIC (Nintendo)...

The Checking Integrated Circuit (CIC) is a lockout chip designed by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console in 1985; the...

short lifespan. It was sold exclusively in North America, and uses regional lockout. Sega's focus on the Sega Saturn left the Nomad under-supported, and...

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unique in that it was the only officially retailed PlayStation with no regional lockout; it would play games from any territory. It would not however play...

PlayStation console except that it has different boot ROMs, lacks a regional lockout, uses a different encryption scheme, and is black. 2 PlayStation controllers...

August 1997. The Nintendo 64 GameShark also bypasses the console's regional lockout, allowing games from any region to be played on the same unit. A GameShark...

modchips produced for them. They usually implemented copy protection and regional lockout with game cartridges, both on hardware and software level. Converters...

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only) CD-ROM Game Pak cartridge Proprietary magnetic disk (via 64DD) Regional lockout Unrestricted Region locked Region locked Region locked Best-selling...

neither regional lockout nor copy protection, making it easy to use illegal copies or homebrew software. Although there is no regional lockout for 3DO...

season. In Germany the series was released via polyband on DVD and Regional lockout-free Blu-ray on July 2, 2015, however there are no known plans to release...

Regional lockout technology for DVDs...

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MIL-CD is only compatible with Japanese Dreamcast consoles due to regional lockout. Unlike other mixed mode CDs, MIL-CD was capable of muting its data...

region coding pertains to regional lockout, which originated in the video game industry. From a worldwide perspective regional coding may be seen as a failure...

from different regions to be played (accomplished by various forms of regional lockout); however more modern consoles either leave protection to the discretion...

consoles sold in different regions have different lockout chips, thereby enforcing regional lockout (regardless of TV signal compatibility). Such regions...

Converter add-on) Game Pak (Cartridge) Cartridge Data card (Japan/Europe) Regional lockout Partial Region locked Region locked Unrestricted Backward compatibility...

Type GD-ROM, CD DVD, CD GameCube Game Disc, DVD (Panasonic Q) DVD, CD Regional lockout Region locked Region locked Region locked Region locked Backward compatibility...

various adapters, or through modification of the console. Internally, a regional lockout chip within the console and in each cartridge prevents PAL region games...