Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: dajudge@inficad.com (Michael Klucher) Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Japanese Games on Net Yaroze? Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 03:41:44 GMT Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 42 Message-ID: <34b1a770.938642@news.scea.sony.com> References: <68s0ej$vi3@scea> <34B191A6.3107@playstation.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip73.ts9.phx.inficad.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 I have also played japanese games fine on my yaroze also what is different in the green one? Is that the new version that the SCEA guy was takling about in NextGen?? Also if anyone from SCEA reads this if you do ever make a playstation 2 or whatever (lets just say a new model machine) I really hope you do keep them blue or even better make the yaroze's blue cause ya know thats a cool color On Mon, 05 Jan 1998 18:06:30 -0800, Jerry Jessop wrote: >Sean, > >A Yaroze will indeed play any game without regard to it's territorial >lockout so it should have worked. Are you certain the CD's were not >CDR's or pirate silver CD's (commonly called HK's) that you were trying? > >If the CD surface was not black, it will not boot on a Yaroze. The >Yaroze still checks for a valid ECC header or "wiz" code that all >authorized PlayStation CD's have. The only PlayStation's that do not >check for all codes (that Sony sells) are the professional blue or green >debug units. > >Best Regards, > >Jerry Jessop >SCEA Hardware Engineer > > > >Sean D. Evans wrote: >> >> I thought the Net Yaroze was supposed to be able to play all PlayStation >> games. A friend of mine has some Japanese games and he brought them over >> for me to see but my Net Yaroze sees them as Music CD's only. It won't play >> them. >> >> Am I wrong in saying that NY will play international games? >> >> Thanks >> >> Sean D. Evans