Hacking Switchin Gamepads between two consoles; US Wii U <-> EUR Wii U

[Kurremkarmerruk]

Hello to everyone and thanks for your time!

I have been reading this forum for years and always found clear explanations and answers to my doubts. I've been reading different posts and I'm not exactly sure my particular question has been answer before, so here it goes:

I have 2 full Wii U systems: one is US and the other is European

I bought the US one when Nintendo started discontinuing it, so I only managed to buy a really good condition used one (I didn't wanted to pay u$s700 from a new one from scalpers).

Some days ago I spotted a new one in Italy at an extremely good price, and I decided to buy it.

My idea was to swap the gamepads, keep the US system with the EUR gamepad, and sell the rest at a fair price.

That way I would have a brand new gamepad with the cost of difference between the buy/sell operation of the EUR system.

I thought that gamepads (like every other type of controller) weren't region locked but obviously I was wrong.


Is it possible to dump both gamepads firmwares and flash them on the other one? With System Config Tool and/or drxtool maybe?

thanks in advance

 

[oslo83]

Hello to everyone and thanks for your time!

I have been reading this forum for years and always found clear explanations and answers to my doubts. I've been reading different posts and I'm not exactly sure my particular question has been answer before, so here it goes:

I have 2 full Wii U systems: one is US and the other is European

I bought the US one when Nintendo started discontinuing it, so I only managed to buy a really good condition used one (I didn't wanted to pay u$s700 from a new one from scalpers).

Some days ago I spotted a new one in Italy at an extremely good price, and I decided to buy it.

My idea was to swap the gamepads, keep the US system with the EUR gamepad, and sell the rest at a fair price.

That way I would have a brand new gamepad with the cost of difference between the buy/sell operation of the EUR system.

I thought that gamepads (like every other type of controller) weren't region locked but obviously I was wrong.


Is it possible to dump both gamepads firmwares and flash them on the other one? With System Config Tool and/or drxtool maybe?

thanks in advance

I read somewhere on GBAtemp that system config tool will sync out-of-region gamepad without any problem without minding its region lock [/CODE].
I don't know how out of region sync'ed gamepad this would behave later if system is formated or gamepad sync is lost for any reason.

 

[Kurremkarmerruk]

thanks for you answer. I read that as well, but I don't know either how long that "sync" would last, what would happen after turning off the system, etc

 

[oslo83]

thanks for you answer. I read that as well, but I don't know either how long that "sync" would last, what would happen after turning off the system, etc

You'll have to try for yourself.
As long as you have a gamepad of the same region console to sync with you should be ok in the event out-of-region gamepad desync...

You're the only one on GBAtemp who seem to have access to both region gamepad for long enough yo try..

 

[Kurremkarmerruk]

Not exactly since my idea is to sell the eur system with the us gamepad...

also don't want to risk bricking it since I haven't tried anything like that before...

At the moment, I just have with me the new EUR Wii U (i'm in Italy), the US system is back home