Comments on: zInternational - Allows International Users Marketplace Access

By: Fez

Fez — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:22:21 +0000

Phil,
As we said, this hack is intended for those users the features didn’t work for. I have accessed Zune Social and installed Zune Software from around 3 countries now. My Zune Card and Marketplace work just fine.
If it all works for you, you obviously don’t need it. It does however help out those users these features don’t work for.

By: Phil J W

Phil J W — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:32:34 +0000

you mean http://social.zune.net/member/Phil+J+W that zune card???

mines worked this whole time!! i bought the new coldplay cd and i saw my card update as i comleted it….

also note i use my zzune for more videos then music hense my number of plays is low..

By: Zunesi

Zunesi — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:23:14 +0000

But also doesn’t this make the zune card working whereas just changing the regional settings has no effect on the zunecard,
Alex.W said he did what you did Phil but when he used this his zunecard started working

By: Phil J W

Phil J W — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:32:15 +0000

well aden, you didnt try in on my laptop because what i did worked 100%…….I selected Canada, myabe it doesnt work overseas, but it sure DOES work in canada…my playcount as ALWAYS worked, so i dont understadn why everyone is having an issue….

By: chabbz

chabbz — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:42:18 +0000

can I put my old songs or downloaded songs to zune 30? is there a way?

By: Aden

Aden — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:14:26 +0000

No Phil, if you change them back after that, when you reopen the Zune software again, your settings are lost and your playcount and marketplace will nolonger show.

Trust me, i tested this on 8+ computers with many different regional settings.

Although i understand why users dont want registry edits, and now we are working on a way of getting the software to accept all settings to show the marketplace, not just the US.

By: Phil J W

Phil J W — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:04:38 +0000

Zunesi, what your not realizing though is that you DONT have to keep your regional settings changed, all you have to do is close the marketplace, change your settings to the US, start up the zune software, and then you can change ur settings to wherver you want after that!

By: Zunesi

Zunesi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:36:25 +0000

Yeah but it changes the location settings while keeping currency settings, keyboard settings and other location defined settings the same so international users aren’t forced to use the USA keyboard layout or $ in everything as the default currency without further tweaking.
Thanks for posting it rock4christ,
Awesome name btw

By: Korneel

Korneel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:18:44 +0000

You just had to change in your countrysettings the ‘norms and notations’ (or something alike, I’ve a Dutch PC) into ‘English (United States)’. Your location into ‘United States’ and your ‘Language for applications who aren’t Unicode-compatible’ into ‘English (United States)’. That would also have worked…

By: Phil J W

Phil J W — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:56:48 +0000

Hmmmm….intresting, im at my office now so i cant try it. Ive already been able to access the marketplace via changing my regional settings to the US then back to canada after….although my Microsoft points still wouldnt let me purchase anything, does this hack get around that? If so isnt that in violation of microsoft service terms, it has to be……marketplace is blocked in canada, and other regions….