Wii-U vc stores region locked?

[Escape-To-88]

I suspect his has been asked before, but is there a way to purchase games from the u.s/JP vc store on a pal machine? I've heard some of the PAL Snes titles have been 50hz'ed and wondered if there's a way round this?
cheers

[importaku]

Nope, you are stuck in crappy PAL land unless they find a homebrew way of doing what they did on the Wii.

A long time ago it was possible on the wii using the region changer through the homebrew channel you could access any e-shop but nothing exists like that on WiiU.

[Escape-To-88]

Yeah I remember the hb channel very well. Ah thought that was the case - ta very much

[VR46]

Sure 95% of stuff is 60hz since Nintendo saw the light 12 months ago isn't it?

[Nu-Eclipse]

Nope, you are stuck in crappy PAL land unless they find a homebrew way of doing what they did on the Wii.

Unless I'm mistaken, didn't region-changing on the Wii Shop Channel eventually get locked down by Nintendo, regardless of HBC?

[importaku]

I wasn't aware you could do it without the homebrew channel, i always used the channel to then launch the region changing app. But yeah the newest updates locked out that part allowing server change.

[Nu-Eclipse]

I wasn't aware you could do it without the homebrew channel, i always used the channel to then launch the region changing app. But yeah the newest updates locked out that part allowing server change.

You can't/couldn't do it without HBC. That wasn't how I was trying to word it.

[importaku]

Ah i get you.

[S3M]

Sure 95% of stuff is 60hz since Nintendo saw the light 12 months ago isn't it?

Konami have taken that down to about 90% with all their PAL releases the last few months, if you go into the shop and view the game click to expand the information it will tell you if the game is the PAL or USA version.

[Escape-To-88]

But I assume they are all optimised pal? I.e no huge bloody borders.