NTSC-J Xbox 360 owner's manual

[drunkninja24]

Cool, thanks for the info, though I did come across a J360 with a copy of DSII on eBay that I went ahead and picked up

[StarCreator]

Did you make sure the 360 wasn't banned from Live? eBay is flooded with banned consoles last I checked.

[drunkninja24]

It's a slim model, which AFAIK has not been cracked yet (or at least, the method not made public, I found an article from Team Xecuter showing they had done it, but nothing else since apparently), so it should be good.

[apatia77]

Damn you Cave+shmups, I've just spent £340 on a japanese xbox 360 + Ketsui + Death Smiles. Can't wait for the new Dodonpachi game.

And damn you Microsoft for the stupid region locks.

[dieKatze88]

And damn you Microsoft for the stupid region locks.

QFT. I bought Otomedius Gorgeous on release day, and a friend of mine being the prophesying dipshit he is said out loud in front of the entire student body of Bloomfield College "You do realize that the second you get a Japanese 360, that game will be localized"

Two years of getting the money together only to have something important need replacing in the house (Like a computer dieing, a new washing machine, and a large heavy car part) I finally manage to get the 360 without sacrificing the working state of anything else in the house, and literally 15 days later E3 happens and Otomedius Excellent is announced for the United States.

Bastards. Every single person involved in this setup. All of the people involved with this piece of torture that is my life is a bastard.

[StarCreator]

To be fair, I don't think it's exactly the same game... I was pretty sure Excellent is a sequel.

[dieKatze88]

To be fair, I don't think it's exactly the same game... I was pretty sure Excellent is a sequel.

I know its a sequel, but 2 years later, it's about as close as you could get to that coming true.

[apatia77]

And damn you Microsoft for the stupid region locks.

QFT. I bought Otomedius Gorgeous on release day, and a friend of mine being the prophesying dipshit he is said out loud in front of the entire student body of Bloomfield College "You do realize that the second you get a Japanese 360, that game will be localized"

Two years of getting the money together only to have something important need replacing in the house (Like a computer dieing, a new washing machine, and a large heavy car part) I finally manage to get the 360 without sacrificing the working state of anything else in the house, and literally 15 days later E3 happens and Otomedius Excellent is announced for the United States.

Bastards. Every single person involved in this setup. All of the people involved with this piece of torture that is my life is a bastard.

In Europe it's even worse. At least you did get some of the games released in NTSC format. PAL is/was always behind all the other regions.

[Elixir]

How could I forget about my beloved thread. Aww.

Guwange is out, region-free Futari Platinum is out, along with gamerpics and themes for Daifukkatsu too. They can be seen in the Daifukkatsu thread.

[njiska]

For anyone interested in making purchases from Amazon.jp I can verify that Japantodoor.com is a good forwarding service. Charge me 500 JPY for Invoicing, 700 JPY (For less than 1000 grams) for the handling of the package. Very cheap compared to most places that take a percentage.

Service was fast too. Items arrived in their warehouse on Thursday, shipped out on Friday.

Managed to get Strike Witches LE for less than 5,000 JPY.

[dieKatze88]

For anyone interested in making purchases from Amazon.jp I can verify that Japantodoor.com is a good forwarding service. Charge me 500 JPY for Invoicing, 700 JPY (For less than 1000 grams) for the handling of the package. Very cheap compared to most places that take a percentage.

Service was fast too. Items arrived in their warehouse on Thursday, shipped out on Friday.

Managed to get Strike Witches LE for less than 5,000 JPY.

Thats good to know, considering I plan on upgrading my 360 soon (found a buyer for the old one)

[njiska]

For anyone interested in making purchases from Amazon.jp I can verify that Japantodoor.com is a good forwarding service. Charge me 500 JPY for Invoicing, 700 JPY (For less than 1000 grams) for the handling of the package. Very cheap compared to most places that take a percentage.

Service was fast too. Items arrived in their warehouse on Thursday, shipped out on Friday.

Managed to get Strike Witches LE for less than 5,000 JPY.

Thats good to know, considering I plan on upgrading my 360 soon (found a buyer for the old one)

Keep in mind the handling charge is based on weight. An Xbox in box weights around 7 kg so it'd be a 3,000 JPY handling charge. https://www.japantodoor.com/Domestic.asp?idno=39. Regular EMS rates should be between 7,000-12,000 JPY. Still that's probably less than an importer's markup.

[dieKatze88]

For anyone interested in making purchases from Amazon.jp I can verify that Japantodoor.com is a good forwarding service. Charge me 500 JPY for Invoicing, 700 JPY (For less than 1000 grams) for the handling of the package. Very cheap compared to most places that take a percentage.

Service was fast too. Items arrived in their warehouse on Thursday, shipped out on Friday.

Managed to get Strike Witches LE for less than 5,000 JPY.

Thats good to know, considering I plan on upgrading my 360 soon (found a buyer for the old one)

Keep in mind the handling charge is based on weight. An Xbox in box weights around 7 kg so it'd be a 3,000 JPY handling charge. https://www.japantodoor.com/Domestic.asp?idno=39. Regular EMS rates should be between 7,000-12,000 JPY. Still that's probably less than an importer's markup.

It's less than Celga, which charges by percentage and size.

Celga is good for REALLY small items on YAJ though.

[Elixir]

They've made signing up really easy now, you don't even need a valid email address.

• From My Xbox, choose System Settings, and set Locale to Japan.
• From My Xbox, choose Xbox Live and press A.
• Press A on the first screen, choose "Create an account" on the next.
• Enter anything for your real name.
• Enter your email and password, they can be anything.
• Choose a secret question, enter anything for an answer. The secret question should be in Japanese.
• Enter date of birth.
• Skip through all of the proceeding menus, then it will proceed to create your account.
• It will generate a random gamertag for you, which you can change afterwards for free.
• If successful, your account should show the store names above My Xbox (on the dashboard) as ゲームマーケットプレース and ビデオマーケットプレースビデオ.
• To change your gamertag, go to your profile and select "Change Gamertag".
• You're done! Congratulations on your brand new Japanese 360 account!

[StarCreator]

... but if there's no email attached, how do you even sign in to the website? What a heck?

[njiska]

This reminds me that I should really associate a valid email with my JP account before I lose my recovery options.

Also I'm looking to do another order from Amazon in a month or so. Any recommendationsfor non-shmup games that don't require a full working knowledge of the language to enjoy? (i.e. no visual novels)

[emphatic]

The secret question should be in Japanese.

What's the Kanji for "?" ? But, seriously, you could just include a question in the OP in Japanese so that people who hasn't already made a Japanese account will have to Google, scratch their heads and go "why Elixir, why!?".

[Elixir]

... but if there's no email attached, how do you even sign in to the website? What a heck?

You have to attach an email address, but the email address doesn't have to be valid or exist.

[The Expanding Man]

My J360 slim arcade from Playasia just arrived (with Death Smiles & Ketsui).

Before I go home and crank it up, is there anything I should know about the initial set up, to ensure I can open a Japanese XBox live account for downloadable content?

Any problems if I set up first with my Australian live account, and later open a Japanese account?

Thanks

[bcass]

There's nothing particular you need to do. You can setup a JPN a/c any time.

[syn13]

Hey guys, new member here and also considered an imported 360 but I have a few questions that I've seemed to miss while reading the first post because my situation is sorta unique.
I own a PS3 and 120GB Elite Xbox 360. Initially my 360 was only for shmups and Super Street Fighter IV, now that I've learned that Cave has stopped releasing region free games, I've come to realize that I really want an Japanese 360 but I just bought a Hori Real Arcade Pro VLX Premium so I have no intention at the moment to own two 360s(I already have another stick as well).

So I know a person locally that's willing to sell his Japanese Xbox + 3 import shmups titles(I already have Mushihimesama) so how would I go around in getting rid of my Elite Xbox?
I read that I can migrate my account to another xbox(shouldn't be a problem, the person selling me his owns a business of his own for hardware) but would my DLC and XBLA still work on the Japanese Xbox and can I save money on just using my existing account by changing the location of the account? In the long run, I will sell all my games along with my Elite so I would have to just basically buy back 4 games I play on regular occasion(Halo Reach, Senko no Ronde, Deathsmiles and SSFIV) in Japanese region(hopefully some of these already have had platinum release or will have them soon).

So in a nutshell, is it possible to just have a Japanese Xbox and still play online/DLC/XBLA with my North American Gold account?

[dieKatze88]

Hey guys, new member here and also considered an imported 360 but I have a few questions that I've seemed to miss while reading the first post because my situation is sorta unique.
I own a PS3 and 120GB Elite Xbox 360. Initially my 360 was only for shmups and Super Street Fighter IV, now that I've learned that Cave has stopped releasing region free games, I've come to realize that I really want an Japanese 360 but I just bought a Hori Real Arcade Pro VLX Premium so I have no intention at the moment to own two 360s(I already have another stick as well).

So I know a person locally that's willing to sell his Japanese Xbox + 3 import shmups titles(I already have Mushihimesama) so how would I go around in getting rid of my Elite Xbox?
I read that I can migrate my account to another xbox(shouldn't be a problem, the person selling me his owns a business of his own for hardware) but would my DLC and XBLA still work on the Japanese Xbox and can I save money on just using my existing account by changing the location of the account? In the long run, I will sell all my games along with my Elite so I would have to just basically buy back 4 games I play on regular occasion(Halo Reach, Senko no Ronde, Deathsmiles and SSFIV) in Japanese region(hopefully some of these already have had platinum release or will have them soon).

So in a nutshell, is it possible to just have a Japanese Xbox and still play online/DLC/XBLA with my North American Gold account?

Yep. I do this.

[StarCreator]

Moving your profile to another 360 is as easy as moving the hard drive over. Or, if you plan to ditch your current hard drive, you could transport your profile and saves via a USB stick.

Purchases you've made on your own account will still function on another 360 as long as you're signed into Live (they won't work offline or for another profile unless you're on the 360 you originally purchased the content on).

Honestly, your cheapest and easiest way forward is probably to just buy a Falcon or Jasper (they pop up in Trading Station every so often) so you can just keep your current hard drive, and sell your existing 360 without the hard drive if you have to. You could also get a newer Slim, but then you'd have to either transport all your data via USB stick or get whatever transfer cable is available.

[syn13]

I believe the person I know has mentioned it's a Jasper import as he runs his own business importing hardware and games, I'm just not sure about transferring my XBL account through a USB card but then again, does the 360 memory card work for XBL accounts?

Other than that, I don't believe anyone locally would want a core black Elite console, might as well just sell the entire thing and re-download what I got on the new system then.

So it is perfectly fine to only own one system...I would just have to be careful of American developed games for Japan being ONLY in Japanese.

Alright thanks StarCreator and dieKatze88!

Looking into the console, atleast, I will have 3 shmups on disc to play right away.

[nZero]

I'm just not sure about transferring my XBL account through a USB card but then again, does the 360 memory card work for XBL accounts?

Yes, I keep my profile on a 256MB memory card that I got from StarCreator in a trade, actually.

Also, Super Street Fighter IV, Halo Reach, and Wartech are all region free and play fine on a Japanese console. Just in case you didn't want to have to sell and rebuy all of that stuff in another language.

[brentsg]

I store all of my profiles on a USB memory stick and just move it to whatever Xbox I'm playing.

[syn13]

Oh thank god! Thanks for latest replies, I won't need to get rid of some of my games back but I think I will need to search somewhere else now(either the trading post here or some second hand shop in Japan using proxy service).
I should check Play-Asia for the rest of compatibility(Deathsmiles?).

Edited:
Going through with selling my 120gb elite with ME2 and Deathsmiles(not selling the LE content since the cover doesn't list it as LE). Gonna use a proxy service for Suruga-ya since their standard edition of the 360 consoles are relatively affordable(I haven't considered shipping yet).
How likely would I run into a Jasper version 360? I've never thought about it but now the RROD problem is reminding me how weak the consoles are(Falcon)...Because I still have BB protection til 2012, I never really thought about it.

[Elixir]

Cave-stg's beloved member "Hive" has taken the opportunity to plagiarise this guide, and post it here:

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f17/guide-ow ... mups-74115

And here:

http://www.gf-park.com/forums/showthread.php?t=567

Do you see a pattern?

The second act of plagiarism is of course some inner circle garbage which I couldn't register on, but I've already responded to the ffshrine one.

The funny thing is, he's a mod on this gf-park thing. I really have to wonder how much of the "information" he's provided has actually been original.

[Aliquantic]

I store all of my profiles on a USB memory stick and just move it to whatever Xbox I'm playing.

That reminds me... is it possible to use any USB stick/hard drive on a 360, or do you need 360-specific ones? So would it be possible to use an external hard drive with a 4GB Slim 360? Thanks

[bcass]

You can use any, but you can only use up to 16GB, regardless of the capacity of the device.