Run NTSC CameCube games on PAL Wii without any mods 03/16/2007 Europe/Sofia +0300 EEST

Sometimes there is „features” hidden form the normal user that requires him to just try a few things and play a little with his console. Doing just this a guy named "dolqube" (probably already a really famous nickname) found out a way to run NTSC games for the old Nintendo GameCube console on his new PAL Nintendo Wii. And it is quite a simple procedure that doesn't require you to be a rocket scientist or anything like that in order to make it work. You just have to follow these simple steps:

- Put a PAL GameCube disc into the Wii and open the "Disc Channel".
- When you see a GameCube logo you'll have to point the cursor with the Wii-mote over the "Start" option so it will become highlighted.
- Press the disk eject button on the Wii without moving your hand (the holding the Wii remote) and thus keep the cursor steady on the screen (on the "Start" option).
- You need to hit the A button on the Wiimote while the "Start" option is still active (it will remain active for about a second) and then replace the PAL CG disk with a NTSC disk (should work with both Japanese and USA games).

If you've done everything as you had to do your Came Cube game should start and play without any problems. If it doesn't start you can try the procedure again, but this time follow every step more accurately. This trick might also work on PAL CG games on NTSC consoles, but there is no info if that trick works the opposite way. Unfortunately this "workaround" works only for running import CameGube games and not for import Wii games... :(

Last modify: 03/16/2007 Europe/Sofia +0300 EEST

List of all Wii modchips at the moment 03/12/2007 Europe/Sofia +0300 EEST

If you want to be able to run homebrew on your Nintendo Wii console or play backups of games, you'll have to get a modchip for your console. In the last two months there was a lot of development and currently there are a few commercial solutions available and even a few open source modchips for the Wii console...


Commercial solutions:
- WiiD modchip @ Divineo (the latest) - 40$
- Wiikey modchip (the most promising) - 50$
- Wii XT modchip (not final, might be a fake) - 65$
- CycloWiz modchip (there are version 1 and 2) - 50$
- Wiinja modchip (version 1, 2 and Deluxe, not upgradeable) - 40$


Open source modchips:
- Chiip Wii modchip (do it yourself chip) - to build 5$
- Wiip! modchip (do it yourself chip) - to build 10$
- Open Wii modchip (opensource modchip) - source only

Last modify: 03/12/2007 Europe/Sofia +0300 EEST