Official Wii Thread: Part 4

[Drewbacca]

How sure are you on that? Give me a percentage estimate.

[Mzo]

My Nintendo, Super Nintendo and N64 all have physical lockouts. That means a chunk of plastic blocking the larger japanese carts from entering keeps me from playing games. You can fix that with a game genie acting as a pass-through. The Nintendo might be different, actually (never tried myself), the other two for sure.

The GC and Wii have software locks.

[Drewbacca]

Weird. Do Xbox and 360 have region coding?

[Mzo]

Do they, and yes they do.

[Drewbacca]

I don't know what you're talking about Mzo. My post was clearly error free.

And thanks. I'm too much of a casual fan nowadays to care about these things.

[Mzo]

NP, I only know because of Mario's Super Picross and the Treasure N64 games.

[Manic Miner]

Crap. I don't know then. Try disconnecting WiiConnect24. Try anything. What about returning it where you purchased it?

a friend of mine bough it from the states as a gift. I will disable WiiConnect24 and see how that goes.

It's an option just an expensive one. And yeah like Finch said call where you bought it from and tell them it's defective see if they'll replace it. Also is it in a well ventilated area or do you have it locked inside a cabinet or something?

expensive it is. I just might do it if disabling WiiConnect24 doesn't work. And yes it's in a ventilated area. it's sitting on the ground vertically in a very cool room.

Where do you live and which Wii did you import? It's not a voltage problem, is it?

My xbox, xbox 360, PS2, PS3 all are working fine. The voltage thing is not a problem.

Are you getting disc read errors or is it just going to black and locking up?

it just lock up suddenly. everything just freezes, reseting, ejecting, or powering off dont work. the only thing i can do to turn it off is to unplug it from the step down converter. The music also lock up btw.

*sigh*

[Finch]

Where are you? If you have the receipt and all, i wouldn't mind sending it in for you. It'd probably take a while here and back unless you want to pay crazy prices for shipping, but it's better than nothing.

[bVork]

My Nintendo, Super Nintendo and N64 all have physical lockouts. That means a chunk of plastic blocking the larger japanese carts from entering keeps me from playing games. You can fix that with a game genie acting as a pass-through. The Nintendo might be different, actually (never tried myself), the other two for sure.

The NES has the 10NES protection chip, which (in addition to attempting to prevent unlicensed manufacturers) prevents PAL games from working on an NTSC NES without an adapter. I use a European adapter that advertises that it can "play over 200 US games" :P. Famicom cartridges are a completely different size and have a different pinout. You need an adapter for those as well. Some older first-party carts actually have an adapter (and a famicom pcb) inside them. There are also a bunch of fairly cheap adapters that also work.

Incidentally, you can just snap off some plastic on your SNES to get Japanese carts working. No need for a Game Genie or other adapter. PAL carts are a different story - they usually check for region, so you need an adapter (or you can hack the cartridge and replace the CIC chip. But that doesn't work for games that actually check for 50hz).

[Yoshi]

My xbox, xbox 360, PS2, PS3 all are working fine. The voltage thing is not a problem.

Are all of those the NTSC U/C versions too? Are you in Europe? If so, you're trying to run a 110v system at 220v. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on fire yet.