Wii Region hack status, AnyRegion Changer / Gecko OS / GC Booter / Starfall

[Persocom]

Yes, 3.4 has been cracked, and you can even downgrade your wii to 3.2 so you can use the trucha bug again and stuff.

[charlesr]

Hey, zzr600 (I used to have one of those).

http://sheylara.com/2007/05/24/wii-english-translation-for-japanese-systems/

Should sort you out. Note that some wireless routers don't work too well with homebrew at the mo, so you might need to turn off encryption while doing the region change if it has trouble connecting.

[sj33]

I'm slightly baffled. I downgraded to 3.2U using cIOS Downgrader and used Starfall to patch my system to have region free Wii/GC/Channels, health warning skip and update block. Indeed I can boot my Japanese GC games on my US Wii, but my UK copies of Mario Kart and No More Heroes are not recognised. Of course, I can still boot these through Gecko OS, but why has the Starfall patch seemingly not worked for my Wii games?

EDIT - It's worth noting that I installed the modified IOS's from later updates for maximum compatibility. These are the same ones found on Wiibrew and similar places, so I can't see why it would make a difference (having newer IOS's simply means I can run newer games without needing to update).

[smouty]

Starfall region free patching is is out of date in v0.5 which is the latest one available at the moment.

[sj33]

Somewhat annoying. If only we could permanently apply the Menuloader or GeckoOS Rebooter patches.

[honeymustard]

Nevermind, I am stupid

[charlesr]

Is there any way around the shop region lock yet?

I finally got around to installing the shop channel patch so I could buy some games again, but the last thing I had done before Nintendo shop update was to switch to the Euro region to get Last Ninja II. Unfortunately this means I'm now locked to Euro shop region lameness..... DOH!!! I don't want to have to buy another Wii just for jap shop stuff ffs.

[Zaki]

Is there any way around the shop region lock yet?

I finally got around to installing the shop channel patch so I could buy some games again, but the last thing I had done before Nintendo shop update was to switch to the Euro region to get Last Ninja II. Unfortunately this means I'm now locked to Euro shop region lameness..... DOH!!! I don't want to have to buy another Wii just for jap shop stuff ffs.

Couldn't you just downgrade?

[sj33]

Downloaded UAE4Wii today because me and the brother fancied some Worms, and the Amiga version was always the best. Two crippling problems with the emulator - games run too fast in 60Hz mode, and most Amiga games were PAL. Just give Cannon Fodder a go...
Also, no AGA support, so Worms: Director's Cut is a no-go. Other than that, seems to work nice.

If your running it on a ntsc console you can use any region changer to set your consoles video output to pal so it fixes the speed problem.

Is there any downside to doing this? I use Component 480p generally.

[charlesr]

Couldn't you just downgrade?

I'm not sure. I'll give it a go, but I think Nintendo's servers remember your last shop state and block it if the same wii tries to be different.

[charlesr]

Tried downgrading, but once it finished, it had blank in the installed region.... and said there was a mismatch between area and menu. Great... Please don't brick. Please don't brick. Will try again.

[charlesr]

Doh. No joy.

[charlesr]

I think I might have a corrupt title. It says ES_deleteTitle (ret -106). Am I screwed? I can't find any info on this on wiibrew.

[charlesr]

I just took the plunge and rebooted and it seems to work ok.... for now.

[Roddie]

So did you get your region changed back?