Welcome to the Japanese Game Source review of Final Fantasy XIII. Since this is our first review, let me start by presenting the format of our reviews (you can skip to the first category under this paragraph if you don’t care). First, we select a number of dimensions that are highly relevant to the genre [...]

Now it’s time for a looooong overdue update. As such, to partially make up for it, it will be a pretty long post. First, for the easy stuff. The PS3 is region free! You don’t have to do ANYTHING AT ALL to your PS3 to play Japanese games on your American PS3! Furthermore, Japan and [...]

First up, the original (and ENORMOUS) Xbox The only consistent way to modify an original Xbox to play import games is to install a mod chip. However, if you use Xbox Live, you’ll have to find a mod chip that can be “turned off” or employs a “stealth mode” to avoid being banned for “cheating”. [...]

All Nintendo and Sony handheld consoles are COMPLETELY REGION FREE!!!!!!  That means Japanese games will run fine on your American PSP or DS (or any earlier Nintendo handheld console) One catch, though. For PSPs, which button is confirm or cancel is determined by the hardware. US; O = cancel, X = confirm. Japan; O = [...]

The Gamecube and the Wii have many similarities in the way you can play imported games. The easiest for both is probably the FreeLoader. The FreeLoader is a swap disk made available by Code Junkies, the creators of Action Replay, among other things. The Gamecube FreeLoader works almost flawlessly, with only a very few games [...]