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Gamerace on 13 July 2009

There's now a bunch of Wii games released in PAL territories but not in NA that I want.

What are my options for playing them?   Obviously buy a PAL Wii (which I'll definately consider if they bring the Black version to PAL) but what else?   Is there a hack that would enable me to play PAL games?  If there is, could a future update brick my Wii?

Thanks!



 

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TWRoO on 13 July 2009

Which games?

I have no info for you on the question though, sorry.



Gamerace on 13 July 2009
TWRoO said:
Which games?

I have no info for you on the question though, sorry.


Disaster:Day of Crisis

and a bunch of adventure games which may or may not ever reach NA

Possibly Cricket

 



 

noname2200 on 13 July 2009

Oh Gamerace. While I understand how you feel (really!) it's only going to be one more week before Little King's Story is released here. So be patient just a little longer, my friend.



Samus Aran on 13 July 2009

Use homebrew so your wii can play PAL games.



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nordlead on 13 July 2009

The Freeloader used to work (no mod, just buy the disc from Datel), but on June 16, 2008, Nintendo released Wii firmware 3.3, which blocks the Freeloader. (stolen from wiki)

currently I think the only way you can get around it is by modding your system. There used to be a soft mod via the twilight hack, but I think that got closed off with 4.0. There may be more software hacks, but you'd have to poke around yourself. Going to Wiki and looking for Twilight Hack may lead you in the right direction.

Obviously hacking/modding your Wii will void the warranty.




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vaio on 13 July 2009
nordlead said:
The Freeloader used to work (no mod, just buy the disc from Datel), but on June 16, 2008, Nintendo released Wii firmware 3.3, which blocks the Freeloader. (stolen from wiki)

currently I think the only way you can get around it is by modding your system. There used to be a soft mod via the twilight hack, but I think that got closed off with 4.0. There may be more software hacks, but you'd have to poke around yourself. Going to Wiki and looking for Twilight Hack may lead you in the right direction.

Obviously hacking/modding your Wii will void the warranty.

They allready around that one too wih bannerbombs.



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Gamerace on 13 July 2009
nordlead said:
The Freeloader used to work (no mod, just buy the disc from Datel), but on June 16, 2008, Nintendo released Wii firmware 3.3, which blocks the Freeloader. (stolen from wiki)

currently I think the only way you can get around it is by modding your system. There used to be a soft mod via the twilight hack, but I think that got closed off with 4.0. There may be more software hacks, but you'd have to poke around yourself. Going to Wiki and looking for Twilight Hack may lead you in the right direction.

Obviously hacking/modding your Wii will void the warranty.


Thanks, that's helpful.  It's off warrenty now anyway (launch system) but as long as updates just disables a hack instead of disabling my Wii I'll consider it doing it.

@viao - Perfect. Thanks!