hi everyone..
I tried the NTSC release on my PAL Wii with Wiid installed. I've firmware 2.2e but an update started, seemed to be taking as long as a full firmware upgrade rather than a small patch. Anyway the progress bar stopped halfway and I was extremely worried I'd bricked my Wii but thankfully it was fine. I pressed eject and the disk came out, said update had failed but my Wii still worked fine. Just wanted to warn PAL users. Will be waiting for PAL release I guess, this lack of region compatibility is both annoying and strange.