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Its really simple, the Japanese account is a little bit more difficult. Just remember what all the forms are like when you fill out a U.S. account (just mark that it is in the U.S.) and REMEMBER WHAT EVERYTHING LOOKED LIKE when you do it for the japanese one. Otherwise you will get tripped on the email registration. Caused me like 20 minutes of extra hassle.

Add a Hong Kong one too, as their store is in English and they get a lot of the Japanese stuff.

And, no, the PSN cards are region locked. Occasionally using your credit card will work just fine, and I have heard from numerous people that if you buy one of those pre-paid credit cards you can get even at the grocery store that that will work, if not in Japan at least in Hong Kong, but I believe both.

You can however import Japanese PSN cards or American onesbut that is if you are willing to put up with the hassle.



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for a japanese account just follow the instructions over at www.japanesepsn.com



I'm hoping, at the very least, that if you get a region specific card online, that would be a way around it. Like if I were to go to the Japanese Amazon, for example, and gat a Japanese PSN card, I could buy stuff on the Japanese PSN.
One can hope.



^Hopeless.I tried to buy Wii point cards before i got a CC at the american Amazon and they simply won't sent them to a non american address.
Should be the same story for PSN cards irrelevant from which country as long as it's not your own.



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oliist said:
Like i said.It works only in your own country.There seem to be only some minor exceptions i.e. when you have registered your CC very early in the life circle of the PS3 before Sony changed their methods of account registering.
If you specifically meant how i registered my CC then i have to say i am from Germany and will soon be back there in a few weeks.So my CC works well with my GERMAN account.

I set my hong kong account up a few months ago and my credit card works fine there. I've bought like 6-8 ps1 games XD

I live in Denmark (europe) btw.

 



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oliist said:
^Hopeless.I tried to buy Wii point cards before i got a CC at the american Amazon and they simply won't sent them to a non american address.
Should be the same story for PSN cards irrelevant from which country as long as it's not your own.

Hopekiller! j/k, thanks for the info. These companies make it so hard for you to give them your money, sometime.

yup, just go for it! My friend has a Japan account. But for me, i'm just sticking with the good old USA account. I'm far too lazy to try and make more accounts



Is there a major price difference between accounts/zones? Could anyone tell me how much Super Stardust HD costs in USD/EURO/GBP to compare? Thanks



Everyone should make US/EU/JP/HK accounts, it will take you literally 10 minutes and you won't regret it.



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@ Staude
Then you are one of the minor exceptions i was talking about.
You can officially call yourself a lucky bastard. j/k
btw Are you using Mastercard or Visa?



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Level 1 - Newbie
Level 2 - Member - Pass 1k
Level 3 - Regular - Pass 2k
Level 4 - Addicted - Pass 5k
Level 5 - Obsessed - Pass 10k
Level 6 - Old Guard - Pass 20k
Level 7 - Legend - Pass 50k
Level 8 - Demi-God - Pass 100k
Level 9 - God - Pass 250k
Level 10 - Zeus - Pass 500k

New Table:

Level 1 - Newbie
Level 2 - Rookie - Pass 1k
Level 3 - Padawan - Pass 10k
Level 4 - Sea Dog - Pass 25k
Level 5 - Captain - Pass 50k
Level 6 - Agent - Pass 100k
Level 7 - Elite - Pass 175k
Level 8 - Hero - Pass 250k
Level 9 - Legend - Pass 500k
Level 10 - Titan - Pass 1 Million