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Wii Hack: American Wii into PAL/Japanese Wii!

Now THIS is what could semi-brick (or fully brick) your Wii if you aren’t careful. Application page: wiibrew.org Some parts had to be sped WAY up cause they took forever…

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Tagged with American, Hack, Into, PAL/Japanese.


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  1. baconfrazzles says

    big thanks for this.. just bought a cheap US wii 4.1off ebay, but was having probs getting back to the menu (black screen) when playing pal backups. downgraded to 3.2u then used this to install pal menu, then change all setting to pal. its now a pal wii..thanks again :)

  2. poopmymom says

    how to you install this????

  3. karubin12 says

    hey so when u do this can u play japanese wii games? but have to reinstall the backup launchers to the region of the wii?

  4. tbmnbo009 says

    hi i have a question, why when i want to press the ftpii, it say it inelizing with network. but when i waited for 5 min, it still loading. Is this happening when you 1st time load it? tell me plz…
    thx

  5. iamemod says

    ill go look for one. thanks. :]

  6. SMGPlayer says

    Not really any that I know of. Maybe search for a cIOS installer an application to downgrade using cIOS.

  7. iamemod says

    do you know of any? ;[

  8. SMGPlayer says

    Yeah, but you can use other applications to downgrade with that version.

  9. iamemod says

    lol whoops, i meant to say 3.4

  10. iamemod says

    i have 3.4
    oh that sucks :P

  11. SMGPlayer says

    What system menu version are you using? I don’t think you can downgrade using this with any version over 3.3.

  12. iamemod says

    when i try to downgrade my system menu to 3.2, i get an error saying that it cant remove some files, so it’s aborted.
    the same happens when i try to change the area setting….
    is it because i have to change it to 3.2e then 3.2j?
    (i want 3.2j, but i have 3.2u now.)

  13. razzybirdman says

    can this thing change the wii ware for the usa reigon to japan reigon???

  14. SMGPlayer says

    Yeah, you might not be able to. This video was made when the Wii Shop Channel still worked on the system menu version that this works on. Since then it has been updated.

  15. GottaLoveBlueApples says

    I had another question SMGPlayer, the Wiibrew page for AnyRegion Changer states :

    “The latest update to the shop channel BREAKS SHOP COUNTRY REGION CHANGING! Be warned that your Wii may be stuck in a certain region for the shop for the time being.”

    Doesn’t that mean I can’t change my wii shop region to a Japanese format?

  16. mtrtrain says

    how do i play the program into my SD carD?

  17. GottaLoveBlueApples says

    Alright thanks so much I’ll give it a try this coming weekend and I’ll report back. Nice video btw it helps out a lot!

  18. SMGPlayer says

    I don’t think you would have to change the whole system menu version. You can change the game region and Wii Shop region without changing that.

  19. GottaLoveBlueApples says

    SMGPlayer do you think you could help me out on this one particular game? Its called Joysound Karaoke Wii. Basically I bought the retail disc in Japan, but I have a 3.2U Wii right now. I need to change my region to Japan and Wii Shop Channel to Japan as well, but do I need to use the ‘downgrade to 3.2J’ first, change the area settings to Japan, and set the Wii Shop Channel to 1? I think that sounds right but I would like your advice. Thanks

  20. SMGPlayer says

    A tutorial on how to downgrade to 3.3 or 3.2 using the BannerBomb.

  21. mackywacky00 says

    google what?

  22. SMGPlayer says

    You would have to use the BannerBomb. There are a bunch of tutorials on how to downgrade. Google it and you should find one.

  23. mackywacky00 says

    It loads the homebrew browser instead…
    How do I get System Menu version 3.3 because I have 4.0?

  24. crankyankers says

    hi, smgplayer…
    will this work to make a wii console bought PAL from uk to work on ntsc tv. so i will see some colors on the games ???
    thanks..

  25. SMGPlayer says

    You can’t do it on version 4.0. You’re going to have to downgrade to do it. (I think the maximum version is 3.3.)



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