Hacking Japanese Game + U.S. Wii U

[LightyKD]

Really quickly. How safe is it to install a Japanese game on a US Wii U?

 

[Monty1986]

Mine is the other way around. I have Japanese WiiU (live in Japan) but want to play USA games (cannot read Japanese). I have made my wiiU region free by changing a value in an XML file in the system. I then install USA WiiU games to my external USB (only 8GB model( and seems to not affect the WiiU in anyway. So far Mario Tennis runs in English, Mario Kart runs in Japanese, Twilight Princess runs in Japanese but English when I run spiik app, Wind waker runs in English, Smash and Toad crash, Breath of the Wild needs an update I think (cannot understand Japanese system menu)....working on checking other games.

 

[LightyKD]

Mine is the other way around. I have Japanese WiiU (live in Japan) but want to play USA games (cannot read Japanese). I have made my wiiU region free by changing a value in an XML file in the system. I then install USA WiiU games to my external USB (only 8GB model( and seems to not affect the WiiU in anyway. So far Mario Tennis runs in English, Mario Kart runs in Japanese, Twilight Princess runs in Japanese but English when I run spiik app, Wind waker runs in English, Smash and Toad crash, Breath of the Wild needs an update I think (cannot understand Japanese system menu)....working on checking other games.

Do you have a tutorial on how to change that XML file?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Do you have a tutorial on how to change that XML file?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/regionhax-how-to-get-regionfree-on-wiiu.448468/
But it's not needed with CFW. Be careful since you can brick if you modify it incorrectly.

Really quickly. How safe is it to install a Japanese game on a US Wii U?

Very safe. You may need Spiik to fake the correct region/language though.

 

[SuperDan]

i herd that's a brick waiting to happen ...?

 

[Monty1986]

Do you have a tutorial on how to change that XML file?

I used this video.....

No Python needed!

 

[LightyKD]

I used this video.....

No Python needed!

thanks!

 

[LightyKD]

Monty1986, have you tried this with out of region games installed to your hard drive? I see that in the video, disc games work.

 

[godreborn]

out-of-region games will either work via region free or simply won't boot (there's an error of some kind). it won't brick the system if that's what you're worried about. there's another app called outlander I believe that's region free. I think it works with discs too.

 

[Deleted User]

out-of-region games will either work via region free or simply won't boot (there's an error of some kind). it won't brick the system if that's what you're worried about. there's another app called outlander I believe that's region free. I think it works with discs too.

ourloader?

 

[godreborn]

that might be is. I've never personally used it.

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@monkeyman4412 , you're right! I think I may have called the app outlander in my wii u tutorials on psx place. lol

 

[OrGoN3]

Really quickly. How safe is it to install a Japanese game on a US Wii U?

I have Puyo Puyo Tetris installed on my Wii U. My Wii U is USA region and the game is Japanese. The game works just fine. I installed it and that was it. My Wii U is running CBHC as well, and I'm assuming you'd be running CFW in some form.

I have even applied some of the English translation patches from these forums and the game works just fine. Updates and all.

 

[godreborn]

cbhc is region free.

 

[godreborn]

it would seem I called the app ourloader in the last post of my tutorials. I couldn't find the outlander comment, so maybe I had it right?

 

[Monty1986]

I am new to the scene, I just want to play USA/PAL games on my WiiU in English haha (hell even Japanese games in English if possible) which I download and install onto my USB hard drive. But quite a few games either crash or load in Japanese.

Does anyone know a way to fix this?

 

[godreborn]

I think a lot of games load a language based on what the system is using. however, if there's nothing but Japanese, it will load that.

 

[Monty1986]

I think a lot of games load a language based on what the system is using. however, if there's nothing but Japanese, it will load that.

Hmm maybe I should give PAL games a try then as maybe they will not contain a Japanese language pack? So far I have only tried US. It is just weird. I install it. Use Spiik and some games work some will crash. Ideally, I just want to install a game and load it in English without even having to open Spiik each time. So far from the ones I have tried Mario Tennis (US) and Wind Waker HD (US) are the only ones to open in English without Spiik needed