Hacking Change Wii Save Region

Agu Fungus · Dec 11, 2009

Hello, I was wondering how I can change the region of an American Super Samsh Bros. Brawl to Japanese. I tried using Gamesave Manager copying the files from the 45 folder to the 4a folder. But the game ends up freezing after the loading screen. Does anyone know what do I have to change in the American save to copy to the Japanese save?

Zensen · May 23, 2010

Bump.

Someone knows if that is possible?

Krestent · May 23, 2010

One question: WHY??
And don't bump six-month-old topics.

Zensen · May 23, 2010

I think is better bumping this one than creating the same topic.

The reason is I don't want to loose my progress.

mauifrog · May 23, 2010

Yes, you can. Use this method, but for whatever game you are converting.

QUOTE(davepm;185499) said:
[GUIDE] Convert NSMB PAL save to NTSC

Short guide on how to convert a PAL save to NTSC.

***BACKUP YOUR SAVES FIRST, DON'T COME COMPLAINING IF YOU SCREW IT UP AND LOSE YOUR SAVE.***
All you need is Savegame Manager here and a hex editor (Hex Editor Neo is free here).

1. Make sure you have a game save for your NTSC-U version. Then open Savegame Manager and select "extract" and "SD".

2. Find your NSMBW saves (should be listed twice, one for each region) and extract them.

3. You can now delete the PAL save file (it's the one that says "Play Mario with your friends!," while the NTSC-U says "A new Mario adventure!". DO NOT DELETE THE NTSC-U SAVEGAME OR YOU WILL GET THE -106 ERROR WHEN YOU TRY TO REINSTALL IT! If you do by accident, just run the NTSC-U game and create a new one.

4. Now take your SD card and put it in your computer.

5. In the root of your SD card you will find the "savegames" folder with two more folders in it. The one that ends with "45" is NTSC-U and the one that ends with "50" is your PAL save. Open the PAL folder (00010000534d4e50) and open "wiimj2d.sav" with your hex editor.

6. The very first thing you should see on the text side is "SMNP". Change the "P" to "E" (yes it is case sensitive) and save.

7. Copy the edited "wiimj2d.sav" to your NTSC-U folder (00010000534d4e45), and delete the PAL folder.

8. Now insert the SD card back into your Wii and launch Savegame Manager.

9. This time select "install" then "SD" and install your NSMBW save.

Zensen · May 23, 2010

Thanks dude

nodnidl · Sep 15, 2013

Thank you mauifrog !

I switched my NTSC Zelda Skyward Sword save into a PAL one thanks to your instructions.

DGlower · Jul 20, 2014

mauifrog said:
Yes, you can. Use this method, but for whatever game you are converting.

I tried to follow the instructions given in the link, but the Twilight save files seems differerent from their file extensions (banner.bin and zeldaTp.dat) . I opened both in hex, and could not locate the string "SMN" .
Btw it's also a conversion from PAL to NTSC .

Hammanaa · Dec 16, 2023

DGlower said:
I tried to follow the instructions given in the link, but the Twilight save files seems differerent from their file extensions (banner.bin and zeldaTp.dat) . I opened both in hex, and could not locate the string "SMN" .
Btw it's also a conversion from PAL to NTSC .

Im a bit late to the party, but for anyone who is running into the same problem:
Indeed, the TP saves are in a different format, but the trick of changing a few characters in the beginning lines still works.
Starting with the NTSC version, starting in line 00000050 (the 6th one) are found the characters F_SP104...F_SP103.....(data)F_SP103 (that last ´´3´´ being in line 00000080)
And in the PAL version, in the same lines, the characters are: F_SP109...F_SP114.....(data)F_SP114.
Do not copy and paste anything, change the numbers (and JUST the numers) by hand according to the version you want to change to.
I havent tested it extensively but it should work. I hope this ends up being of help.

KitchenerLeslie · Jun 5, 2024

Thanks so much for this tip. I successfully converted a CEMU USA save of Breath of the wild to a PAL Wii U save. Only had to change the first E to a P in the game_data.sav and then copied the whole numbered folder, named "1" in my case.

Botw, with all its autosaving and such, isn't the most noob friendly, but it's totally doable

Edit
Also never mind that the save picture you see in the load menu isn't right, just load and immediately save

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