International Travel with XBOX 360 and PS2.

PhiPsi1 · Post by **PhiPsi1** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:37 am

fellas,
i got a quick question for the techies of the board or anyone that knows...i'm getting ready to travel overseas and am planning on bringing my xbox 360 and ps2 with me. i was wondering if when they run the x-ray machine on your bags if whether or not that can affect your system or not? i'm just worried that it will screw up my 360 or ps2....i've never traveled by plane with my ps2 or xbox 360, but i plan to live overseas for the year (or longer) so i decided to bring them along. so i guess, anyone who has traveled domestic or internationally with their gaming machines, any info would be great...thanks for the help...

PhiPsi1 · Post by **PhiPsi1** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:10 am

also, another quick question...obviously, we are going to have to buy a tv overseas as well...will it be okay to hook up the xbox 360 and ps2 bought over here in the u.s. to a tv we buy over there OR will there be some technological issues with that? sorry if these are stupid questions...any info. would be great.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:39 pm

Unless there is some sort of NTSC to PAL converter...you're not gonna be able to use the overseas. Two different display technologies.

And the X-ray machines will not hurt them. I've traveled many times with my consoles and nothing has ever happened to them.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:11 pm

X-rays machine will not damage your systems. What they'll do though is ask you to take it out for a separate scanning machine as they do with all laptops. I go thru that all the time.

F308GTB · Post by **F308GTB** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:08 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:Unless there is some sort of NTSC to PAL converter...you're not gonna be able to use the overseas. Two different display technologies.

Which is only an issue if he's going to a place with PAL. Without knowing where the destination is, you can't say if a voltage converter is required either, though I believe PS2 at least is compatible with 50/60 Hz electricity.

PhiPsi1 · Post by **PhiPsi1** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:07 pm

i'm going to the philippines...so u all are saying that i won't be able to hook up my ps2 or xbox 360 to ANY tv's we buy over there????

F308GTB · Post by **F308GTB** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:36 pm

PhiPsi1 wrote:i'm going to the philippines...so u all are saying that i won't be able to hook up my ps2 or xbox 360 to ANY tv's we buy over there????

http://www.high-techproductions.com/ntsc.htm

They use NTSC so you'll be fine. Not sure what power they run, but at worst you'll need a stepdown transformer. I've got a Japanese PSP, PS2, and Dreamcast that have no problem with US power, and I've taken a US PS2 to Japan with no difficulties.

The bigger question is why you'd want to spend that long in the Philippines. I'd want to stay out of that relatively unsafe place.

PhiPsi1 · Post by **PhiPsi1** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:34 pm

thanks for the info. F308GTB, that was extremely helpful...now i don't have to worry about packing unnecessary stuff with me...

PhiPsi1 · Post by **PhiPsi1** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:19 pm

do u all think there is a possibility that my hard drive could get erased due to the magnetic x-ray?? some dude at operationsports.com said that would be the worst case scenario if anything at all would happen..

F308GTB · Post by **F308GTB** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:44 am

PhiPsi1 wrote:do u all think there is a possibility that my hard drive could get erased due to the magnetic x-ray?? some dude at operationsports.com said that would be the worst case scenario if anything at all would happen..

If so, you'd have millions of pissed off laptop users. Not an issue.

PhiPsi1 · Post by **PhiPsi1** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:06 am

nah bro...i'm talking about the xbox 360 hard drive, not my laptop...