PS3 DVD and Blu-ray Region Change Guide

[hiroru]

xregistry changing doesn't work. i tried it long ago. feel free to prove me wrong though.

also the firmwares are all the same. the console is what makes it different.

perhaps a customised debug mode or changing the region in xregistry (along with the bd region and dvd region) might help.

but i really cbf trying, plus my laser died

Hi, you are wrong

xRegistry works perfectly, but Bluray region change it's not only a setting inside Hex file, I think that's inside BD reader unit firmware too.

Inside dev_flash3 it's two file name DRL1 and DRL2, I think that files and xRegistry and the three keys to change BD region in any PS3...

[ifeghali]

Doing that makes things even worse. it seems that dvdTvSystem accepts only the values 0 or 2.

I still can't play DVD region 4 discs on my console even after changing the region from 1 to 4. it keeps telling the region code is wrong.

[hiroru]

Yes, you must set dvdtvsystem to 0 (NTSC) and then dvdregioncode to 4.

This must works for you if your zone is Mexico, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania.

[postpwned]

Thanks, worked great for me.

[hiroru]

Great, this must work for everybody

[dariowilson]

i've waited 5 years to play my japanese version of kill bill, now i FINALLY get to.. thanks a lot

[tuxxio]

I'm trying to get my Japanese PS3 to play region 1 DVDs. I changed the dvdregion to 1 using xRegistryEditor but it didn't work.

I tried restarting my PS3 afterwards and I tried multiple region 1 discs. I'm still getting an error message saying the region is wrong. I'm using CFW 3.55 with Comgenie's awesome filemanager.

[WheedWhack3R]

You need to do more than just change the region. You also have to change the TV video format to the corresponding type. as far as I know it only works on dvds. Blu ray region code is different from dvd region on ps3. It has a slightly more tamper resistant protection.

[tuxxio]

its already set to 0. Japan and America are both NTSC so I don't see why it would need to be changed.

[Decho]

Does this only work with DVDs, or PS2 games, too? I have a couple of Japanese PS2 games I've been trying to get to run this way, but it's not working. I dunno what I would change the DVDTV thing to for NTSC-J, though, so maybe that's it. Using 3.55 Kmeaw CFW and Comgenie.