The reason you semi-bricked your wii was because you have used an out of region game with a firmware update, ntsc-u games are from the usa !!...you need to download an ntsc-jap game with an up to date firmware on it.
WIIFIT-jap has 3.1j firmware download that game and run the update and then...
I haven't played my Switch n a month or so, just been playing Xbox, and just picked to play lil and Damn that A and B, X and Y being reversed always gets me.
I agree Tears is great. I even played thru it completely twice. I've been hooked on playing thru Fallout 4 again though, after they released the next gen version for Series S/X. Is pretty cool update.