Vastaus: Onko Wii region free vaiko ei?
Lainauksia Play-Asiasta:
To make it short, Nintendo Wii consoles and software are region encoded. We have tested a large variety of games from different publishers on our systems and are confident to confirm that a full region lockout exists. This applies to Nintendo Wii as well as Gamecube software alike.
Partially good news though for users that wish to play back import Gamecube games on their Wii system. Datel's Action Replay has been tested and allows playback of Japanese Gamecube games on a US Wii system. Though we have read reports about older Freeloader versions to be running as well, the current version (1.06B) has been tested by us and is not working. An updated version of the Freeloader is likely to appear but we will post an update as soon as it happens.
Update (Dec 2nd): And it happened faster than we expected. We received a new shipment of Datel's Freeloader, which is confirmed to be compatible with the Nintendo Wii as well. All Freeloaders shipping from December 4th will be the new version, now also allowing import Gamecube game playback on the Wii.
Update (Dec 4th): Freeloader and Action Replay are only confirmed to work on US VERSION Wii systems. Both items failed to boot on the Japanese Version Wii console.
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Unlike the PlayStation3 - which is region free for PS3 games, supports multilingual onscreen text and allows you to connect to any regional PlayStation network (providing you have a valid residential address in the selected territory), the Nintendo Wii is fully region encoded in terms of Wii/Gamecube/Virtual Console playback and does not support multilingual onscreen text.