{"id":114,"date":"2009-10-15T01:33:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2012-06-23T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T16:42:37","slug":"playstation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/?page_id=114","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Region Free with hardware modification only<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sony&#8217;s PlayStation<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> occupied a uniqu<span style=\"color: #000000;\">e <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">niche along with <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sega&#8217;s Saturn<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> in that no easily available tools for region swapping exist that were manufactured. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So called \u201cswap-tricks\u201d exist that involve starting the console with a native disc in, timing the system\u2019s boot up to a particular\u00a0 point, and then quickly removing the native disc and replacing it with the one you want to play \u2013 <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">but honestly, you\u2019re much better off either buying a modchip or the native system for that territory, if you plan on playing foreign games. It\u2019s a lot easier, &amp; you don\u2019t run the risk of burning your CD reader out, damaging your console.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region Free with hardware modification only Sony&#8217;s PlayStation occupied a unique niche along with Sega&#8217;s Saturn in that no easily available tools for region swapping exist that were manufactured. So called \u201cswap-tricks\u201d exist that involve starting the console with a native disc in, timing the system\u2019s boot up to a particular\u00a0 point, and then quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/regionfreegamer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}