i've checked around the net and i can't get a strait answer on this, i have one of the original 60GB PS3's that play the PS2 games on it, it's was brought in Australia and on the box it has the globe with the 4 in it which i'm sure stands for that it's region locked to Region 4 Games (PAL) but a couple of games i got from ebay have different numbers on them, Orange Box says Region 2 and it plays fine and Metal Gear Solid 4 says Region 3 (apart from the bloody forever to download MGO but it could just be my next connection) and Resistance 2 and it's fine says Region 4.
When i asked around elsewhere i was told that PS3 games are locked by using JAP, NTSC and PAL and the region numbers are for DVDs, considering that PS3 games are on Blue-Ray DVDs i thought the region numbers would be used even though they print them on the covers, yesterday, i was told by one of my classmates that PS3's are Region free after i was telling him that i couldn't find .Hack//G.U for the PS2 in PAL, i don't doubt him cause he was the one who told me Deus Ex was worth getting and he was right.
What i'm asking is that is the 60GB PS3 able to play any PS2 game no matter if it's NTSC or PAL cause where i live i can no longer get .Hack//G.U by getting EB to order it in cause the series is discontinued, EBay has truck loads but none in PAL, they all come for the US and since it;s my mum's card the money will go into, i can't buy from anywhere else on the net unless it uses PayPal