Possible to change system region after softmod?

[Nickeleye]

Hi everyone!

I just acquired a Wii in Japan that's on firmware version 4.3J. I have no concerns about the standard soft mod process, but I think in the past I had an issue where a Japanese wii using GX Loader was frequently having issues crashing when trying to load NA games, but Japanese would work fine. It was a quite a long time ago, so I'm not sure which GX loader version I was using or what settings I may, or may not, have been using at the time.

I was considering region changing the console to North America, but I kind of like the Japanese language interface since I'm able to understand enough Japanese.

So, my question is:

If I do the soft mod (as Japanese region), but have issues launching non-Japanese titles, is it possible for me to perform the region change process at that point or do I need to make a decision about that before I do the soft mod? I haven't started the soft mod process yet, so I thought it's better to check here before I do something that's irreversible.

Thanks in advance.

 

[TrungNh]

Yes you can.

With soft mod you can play any region (free region).

 

[Nickeleye]

Yes you can.

With soft mod you can play any region (free region).

Thanks for the reply, but maybe my explanation wasn't completely clear.

For example, I am familiar that with GX Loader you should be able to play games from any region. However, in the past I seemed to have some issues with crashing / games not loading from North America region on a Japanese soft modded system (I don't own that system anymore to check).

I was considering changing the nand so that the Japanese Wii I got can be changed to North America region in order to avoid the issue I had in the past. I'd like to just keep the current Wii as Japanese region, but I'm worried I'll have the problem again.

So, my question is, *IF* I did the softmod with the stock Japanese Wii, but had issues in GX Loader... is it still possible to flash the nand to a North America region or would I be stuck with the Japanese region.

I hope that makes sense. Sorry for any confusion.

 

[TrungNh]

Yes, It still possible.

You can change the region of a softmoded Wii at any time to any region you want.

 

[Nickeleye]

Yes, It still possible.

You can change the region of a softmoded Wii at any time to any region you want.

Thanks for the confirmation. For now, I'll try with the Japanese OS and if I have issues, I'll check into changing to North America region.

 

[Aep]

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Hi everyone!

I just acquired a Wii in Japan that's on firmware version 4.3J. I have no concerns about the standard soft mod process, but I think in the past I had an issue where a Japanese wii using GX Loader was frequently having issues crashing when trying to load NA games, but Japanese would work fine. It was a quite a long time ago, so I'm not sure which GX loader version I was using or what settings I may, or may not, have been using at the time.

I was considering region changing the console to North America, but I kind of like the Japanese language interface since I'm able to understand enough Japanese.

So, my question is:

If I do the soft mod (as Japanese region), but have issues launching non-Japanese titles, is it possible for me to perform the region change process at that point or do I need to make a decision about that before I do the soft mod? I haven't started the soft mod process yet, so I thought it's better to check here before I do something that's irreversible.

Thanks in advance.

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