Hacking I'm making an app to check if your Wii has been region changed

[wilsoff]

Australian Wiis are just like European PAL Wiis with the country code set to Australia. I'm in Oz and have definitely had my Wii set to Australia (via AnyRegion Changer) at some point.

I think it only matters for the Shop Channel and Wii Fit (gives different units options depending on country, kgs, lbs, st).

Can't remember where my Wii thinks it is at the moment though.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Australian Wiis are just like European PAL Wiis with the country code set to Australia. I'm in Oz and have definitely had my Wii set to Australia (via AnyRegion Changer) at some point.

I think it only matters for the Shop Channel and Wii Fit (gives different units options depending on country, kgs, lbs, st).

Can't remember where my Wii thinks it is at the moment though.

Thanks, that's what I thought. I'll keep this as a standalone app, but I also plan to implement it into BLIND.

 

[philip11]

I really really wish I could help but I don't have a Wii

 

[JoostinOnline]

I really really wish I could help but I don't have a Wii

Lol, it's cool.

 

[akari212]

nice, it works just fine. Got the expected output.

This software will be useful to anyone who's lazy to check the stickers on their Wii consoles, just to check what original region is or for those console who changed their Wii house casing, (like mine, change it to crystal casing XCS) who just dump their old casing to their trashbin and no longer able to determine what model it is.

 

[JoostinOnline]

nice, it works just fine. Got the expected output.

This software will be useful to anyone who's lazy to check the stickers on their Wii consoles, just to check what original region is or for those console who changed their Wii house casing, (like mine, change it to crystal casing XCS) who just dump their old casing to their trashbin and no longer able to determine what model it is.

It's not for lazy people, lol. It's in case the Wii case has been swapped so the sticker no longer reflects the true region of the Wii.

 

[philip11]

I really really wish I could help but I don't have a Wii

Lol, it's cool.

I meant it as if not because I want to help but because I WANT to not because i'm trying to do a good deed but any help with DS Consoles I can do just Message me.

 

[Naguz]

Just wanted to chime in and say I think this is useful. Most people who regionchange a Wii to resell probably has a pretty standardized way to do it. Changing the serial number would be an extra hassle - either they would need to make a new valid serial for every Wii, or they would give all of them the same serial, which is, naturally, not a good idea. As none of the most used region changing tool changes the serial atm, there is a good chance close to 0% of the currently region changed Wiis have a changed serial.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Just wanted to chime in and say I think this is useful. Most people who regionchange a Wii to resell probably has a pretty standardized way to do it. Changing the serial number would be an extra hassle - either they would need to make a new valid serial for every Wii, or they would give all of them the same serial, which is, naturally, not a good idea. As none of the most used region changing tool changes the serial atm, there is a good chance close to 0% of the currently region changed Wiis have a changed serial.

Thanks. This is being added to BLIND and I've shared the code with jskyboo so he will add it to Wii Mod.

 

[Sheimi]

The app works. Even though I region changed it to Japan, then back to USA.

 

[JoostinOnline]

The app works. Even though I region changed it to Japan, then back to USA.

Thanks, glad for more results. Btw, avoid PETA:
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[DeadlyFoez]

Seriously. Screw Nintendo. How dare they skin a raccoon so mario can wear it. Lets go and throw blood all over nintendo's corp headquarters. They need to pay for their animal cruelty.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Seriously. Screw Nintendo. How dare they skin a raccoon so mario can wear it. Lets go and throw blood all over nintendo's corp headquarters. They need to pay for their animal cruelty.

Psh, they deserve it after all the fun games they have denied the US.

 

[TerraPhantm]

So this app only checks for the serial number? If I were to change the region by writing a virgin 4.3E NAND to my system and made sure the serial number prefix was for the PAL region, then your app would think my Wii's original region was PAL, right?

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Yes, which is why this apps response can not be fully trusted.

 

[JoostinOnline]

So this app only checks for the serial number? If I were to change the region by writing a virgin 4.3E NAND to my system and made sure the serial number prefix was for the PAL region, then your app would think my Wii's original region was PAL, right?

Right, but that's not a common practice. It is a lot of extra work to do that if you want to region change a Wii. They would have to softmod a Wii, then dump the NAND, then create a new NAND that was region changed, then restore that NAND, then softmod it again. Why do that when you could just softmod it once and be done? Also, what purpose would it serve? Until now, there hasn't been an app that checks the serial number from setting.txt.

I have stated multiple times that it isn't fool-proof, but there is like a 99.99% chance that it's right.

 

[XFlak]

So this app only checks for the serial number? If I were to change the region by writing a virgin 4.3E NAND to my system and made sure the serial number prefix was for the PAL region, then your app would think my Wii's original region was PAL, right?

Right, but that's not a common practice. It is a lot of extra work to do that if you want to region change a Wii. I have stated multiple times that it isn't fool-proof, but there is like a 99.99% chance that it's wrong.

Sounds contradictory to me, u sure u meant to say "wrong"?

 

[JoostinOnline]

So this app only checks for the serial number? If I were to change the region by writing a virgin 4.3E NAND to my system and made sure the serial number prefix was for the PAL region, then your app would think my Wii's original region was PAL, right?

Right, but that's not a common practice. It is a lot of extra work to do that if you want to region change a Wii. I have stated multiple times that it isn't fool-proof, but there is like a 99.99% chance that it's wrong.

Sounds contradictory to me, u sure u meant to say "wrong"?

Sorry, I I meant to say right.

Btw, see my edit for more reasons.

 

[bowser]

I have a region changed Wii from JAP to USA. I want to run this and am pretty sure this app only reads the file so there's no chance of bricking right? Or should I take a NAND backup just in case?

 

[JoostinOnline]

I have a region changed Wii from JAP to USA. I want to run this and am pretty sure this app only reads the file so there's no chance of bricking right? Or should I take a NAND backup just in case?

It's read-only. Worst case scenario is the app fails to read your setting.txt and exits, which would have no affect on your Wii.