Hacking Change the vWii region

[toto9992]

Hi, is it possible to change the vWii region to start VC games without going through GX usb loader and play them in NTSC 60Htz instead of PAL 50Htz ?


Thanks.

 

[metroid maniac]

You can try anyregionchanger... Just do not install a system menu and be prepared for the possibility of a bricked vWii.

 

[toto9992]

Huh, that mean nobody tried it ?

 

[metroid maniac]

As far as I know, yes.
It is unlikely that a brick will occur, but you never know.

 

[toto9992]

Ok, i'm not brave enought to try it.


Thanks anyway !

PS: I tried to go with freewad + Wiiflow to force NTCS, and it didn't work, i still get a game slow as hell .

 

[JoostinOnline]

It is unlikely that a brick will occur

I wouldn't bet on that. SYSCONF gets restored when you restart vWii mode, but setting.txt doesn't as far as I'm aware.

 

[toto9992]

I'll wait untill we got something safer for that.

 

[AsWeGoAlong14]

You can try anyregionchanger... Just do not install a system menu and be prepared for the possibility of a bricked vWii.

From a person who is not afraid of bricks, anyregionchanger doesn't work on the vWii. Just errors out at boot. and goes back to the homebrew menu.


aaaand I just realized this is a dead convo. My bad.

 

[__YungGoat__]

From a person who is not afraid of bricks, anyregionchanger doesn't work on the vWii. Just errors out at boot. and goes back to the homebrew menu.


aaaand I just realized this is a dead convo. My bad.

Not anymore is there any other way to change the region of the vwii?

 

[mive]

you could use sneek and change vwii region with SettingsEdit. this way you cant brick your "real" vwii

 

[Vague Rant]

There's a tutorial for exactly this situation.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/modifying-your-vwii-game-region-and-or-video-mode.574598/

As mive suggested, SettingEdit is the way to go. You really don't need to do this on an emulated NAND. Changing video modes isn't a bricking change, and you can access the vWii NAND from the Wii U side anyway, so as long as you take a backup of your original setting.txt, the absolute worst possible thing that can happen is that you open ftpiiu_everywhere on the Wii U side and restore your original settings.