[Fmrl]

Seeing as the EU Home is broken at the moment I was just wondering about setting up a couple of accounts for the US and JP versions. I looked on the forum but couldn't find any threads that explain how to do this (or maybe it's not supposed to be discussed?)

Is it just simply as case of accessing the US and JP Playstation websites and setting up new accounts on there? If so, how do you get around the bit where it asks for your country, address, etc.? (will it automatically transfer you to the EU site if you select "UK"?)... or do you just make all the details up?

Sorry if these are dumb questions.

[TylerDurden]

I have a US account, its very easy just use a US address and zipcode, I made up an address in Beverly Hills and used the zip code 90210. You do need a different email address as well. I guess its the same for a Jap account

[Darkstomper]

Originally Posted by Fmrl

Seeing as the EU Home is broken at the moment I was just wondering about setting up a couple of accounts for the US and JP versions. I looked on the forum but couldn't find any threads that explain how to do this (or maybe it's not supposed to be discussed?)

Is it just simply as case of accessing the US and JP Playstation websites and setting up new accounts on there? If so, how do you get around the bit where it asks for your country, address, etc.? (will it automatically transfer you to the EU site if you select "UK"?)... or do you just make all the details up?

Sorry if these are dumb questions.

No question is a dumb question mate.

I set up a US, Jap and Hong Kong account. It was made easy by Youtube, It walks you thru it. I also found a couple of websites with step by step guide, Can't seem to find them at the mo tho, will post back if I have success. Its not straight forward without some kind of guide as its obviously all in Japanese etc. Suggest putting the following into Youtube - 'How to create Japanese Playstation Network account'. Just had a go with that search now and found a few.

[Darkstomper]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

I have a US account, its very easy just use a US address and zipcode, I made up an address in Beverly Hills and used the zip code 90210. You do need a different email address as well. I guess its the same for a Jap account

Yeah likewise. I just set up multiple Googlemail addresses and used some large companies address. In the Jap one tho, although you need a real email address, the house address can be any old gibberish.

Maybe start with the US one, as the new home square with its flying saucers and music voting thing is quite fun.

[COOPERMAN]

I setup my US account using Microsoft's HQ address

1 Microsoft Way
Redmond
WA 98052-7329
USA

Edit: Mod's if this is against rules please delete

[Fmrl]

Cheers for the help guys!

I started getting PSN disconnection errors again which seems to coincide with changes made to the PSN network as a result of Home (at first I thought it was an ISP problem but now I'm not so sure) so I'm just wondering now if switching to a temporary US account when the EU servers are playing up then it might fix this too.

[Fmrl]

OMG

PSN Envy!

[craftycarper]

Use a different email addy, select hong kong, and english language (far easier than trying to work through it all in japanese!), search for a hong kong restaurant, use that address, and you will have access to the home/store, download content not available on EU/US stores. set up a US account doing the same sort of thing and get content from US store.

If downloading the Namco Beta, download on your HK account, then log back in on your UK account, and install, unlock the prizes and they will be available to use in home on your UK account.

[Fmrl]

PSN Envy times 100,000!!!

How come every other PSN store is better than the UK one?

I'm going to need a bigger HD.

[travid]

How to, here

How To: Create a PSN Account For a Foreign Region - PS3Forums

[Raoul_Duke]

Originally Posted by Fmrl

PSN Envy times 100,000!!!

How come every other PSN store is better than the UK one?

I'm going to need a bigger HD.

Because Sony treat us like crap, remember how everyone got Dualshock controllers months before us.

[sunnybacon]

If you're using Gmail for your emails, you can use a neat feature called plus addressing. This is what I used, and it's basically where you stick a + sign in front of your email address and type anything you want, and when emails are sent to that address, they still come to you.
For example, say my email address is sunnybacon@gmail.com
If anyone sends emails to sunnybacon+blah@gmail.com or sunnybacon+anythingyouwant@gmail.com, they'll still come into the inbox of sunnybacon@gmail.com

So, to cut a long story short, you could register your US, JP and HK accounts with:

youremailaddress+US@gmail.com
youremailaddress+JP@gmail.com
youremailaddress+HK@gmail.com

And that way you wouldn't have to create new email accounts, and you'd receive all the emails from all of your PSN accounts in one inbox. Hope that long-winded message helps

[Fmrl]

Originally Posted by sunnybacon

So, to cut a long story short, you could register your US, JP and HK accounts with:

youremailaddress+US@gmail.com
youremailaddress+JP@gmail.com
youremailaddress+HK@gmail.com

And that way you wouldn't have to create new email accounts, and you'd receive all the emails from all of your PSN accounts in one inbox. Hope that long-winded message helps

Many thanks for that, it's a bit late for me as I've already set all my accounts up but it will be useful for others.

[I-WANNA-ITR-DC5]

Hey I had a US account for my PS3; I then checked out the PlayStation Home on my US account then i got an error message saying you have been signed out of the PlayStation network. I tried to sign back in to my normal UK account but it said error. I phoned up PlayStation and they said my console had been permanently banned.

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