# UK-Continental Europe PS2 games

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 26, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-continental-europe-ps2-games/442840 "2008-03-26T22:07:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-continental-europe-ps2-games/442840/1 "2008-03-26T22:07:18Z")

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Hello Dopers,

Somehow I can’t get my google-fu to work…Is the PS2 and the games on a different region in the UK then continental Europe?

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-continental-europe-ps2-games/442840/2 "2008-03-27T04:04:57Z")

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I don’t think the games are region encoded as such, they are either PAL or NTSC. The UK uses the PAL system and I suspect Germany does too.

For movies, region 2 includes the European Union which would be the UK, Germany etc.

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**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-continental-europe-ps2-games/442840/3 "2008-03-27T16:47:53Z")

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Thanks…I saw a copy of FF7 for 30euros and as I picked it up the guy selling it asked me if I realized it was the ‘english’ version. Come to think of it he might have meant a ‘us’ version.

I guess I’ll have to go check…

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-continental-europe-ps2-games/442840/4 "2008-03-27T18:05:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Future Londonite]  
Hello Dopers,

Somehow I can’t get my google-fu to work…Is the PS2 and the games on a different region in the UK then continental Europe?  
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Nope. I’m in Ireland and have bought games in the UK and Holland and played them on my Irish PS2.

The US is a different system though.

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**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-continental-europe-ps2-games/442840/5 "2008-03-27T19:40:14Z")

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Thanks…can’t wait to get back home then and get FF7