Yea despite the hopeful phrase in the manual you can't add friends across regions.
And shams where were you when I was pushing an external league type system for all Nintendo games? :P
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=4688
Go to
http://www.oneclickwifi.net and join the VGChartz group slackers! :P
Some kind of chat system would be a tad easier than just talking back and forth in this thread whenever you want to play. Anybody use AIM or ICQ?
I'll try to find my code tomorrow.