PSP:Region Information

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Marketing Region

As per Sony Computer Entertainment tradition, the console's region is summarized by the last digits of the model number:

# Marketing Region DVD Region OK Button
00 Japan 2 ButtonIcon-PS3-Circle.png
01 North America 1 ButtonIcon-PS3-Cross.png
02 Oceania 4 ButtonIcon-PS3-Cross.png
03 UK/Ireland 2 ButtonIcon-PS3-Cross.png
04 Europe 2 ButtonIcon-PS3-Cross.png
05 Korea 3 ButtonIcon-PS3-Circle.png?
06 Asia (rest of) 3 ButtonIcon-PS3-Circle.png?
07 Taiwan 3 ButtonIcon-PS3-Circle.png?
08 Russia 5 ButtonIcon-PS3-Cross.png?
09 China 6 ButtonIcon-PS3-Circle.png?
10 Latin America 4 ButtonIcon-PS3-Cross.png

This (which can be spoofed by some CFWs) also affects the availability of certain features on the XMB.

Game Region

No PSP games are region locked, neither is the PS1 mode (although official distribution did vary).

UMD Video region

UMD movies follow the same region encoding as movie DVDs (including the ability for a title to be partially or fully multiregion).

Note that the region spoof feature in most CFWs does not currently affect this; only ARK includes a movie region tweak.

Color System

Although the PSP strongly encourages YPbPr, it also offers composite and S-video; it is currently undocumented where the PAL vs NTSC setting is stored.