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Wii region protected?

is the Wii region protected?
 

Manafi's Dream

フェアリータイプタイム
What do you mean?
 

Valoc Darkmyre

Steel Type Hunter
There's always a way around region coding, if you are willing to void the warranty on your console. The main reason why there's region coding with consoles is because there are different standards for TVs and different wall plugs for adapters that use different amounts of electricity in different countries.....and yes, I know I just said "different" too much. =P
 

Bitsy

Sneasel Fanboy
yeah handhelds usually arent region protected as far as i know
 

Seth_X_of_Fortree

Torterra Firma
And big systems are!
 

MetalMario

< It's Passion Pink!
There's always a way around region coding, if you are willing to void the warranty on your console. The main reason why there's region coding with consoles is because there are different standards for TVs and different wall plugs for adapters that use different amounts of electricity in different countries.....and yes, I know I just said "different" too much. =P
This is true for NTSC vs. PAL, but Japan and North America both use NTSC--it's identical. Region locking has more to do with an obsolete territorial business model. Companies want to sell the rights to distribute their products in other regions to local franchises for big bucks. This model is obsolete thanks to the ease (and legality, thank God) of importing goods overseas. Unfortunately, companies like to cling to such archaic models until they can no longer, so we have to put up. :(

From what I've heard, official Nintendo games for the Wii will be region-free, so we should be able to import PBR no prob. (Support for English Pokémon games is another question.)
 

dark_murasame

OG Trainer
Thats cool to me because Then people wont have to complain about how they cant fet the jap version to work on the american version. Now they willl know that they need a jap wii to play the jap game.
 

davidone10

The new tuxedo look!
It's a bummer thogh, I thoght I was getting the Wii for christmas or around then, but now I've decided to wait.
 

Clamps

Warning: Jokes!
wtf are you people talking about? the wii is not region protected. and also this isnt the place for this. this is the POKEMON BATTLE REVOLUTION forum! talk about this in the NINTENDO forum. Also, dont ask stupid questions and look at the wii sticky in the nintendo forum its got all you need to know about the wii.
 
wtf are you people talking about? the wii is not region protected. and also this isnt the place for this. this is the POKEMON BATTLE REVOLUTION forum! talk about this in the NINTENDO forum. Also, dont ask stupid questions and look at the wii sticky in the nintendo forum its got all you need to know about the wii.

STFU we r talkin about PBR cause we wanna know if WE CAN PLAY IT WITHOUT GETTING A JP WII SO STFU!
 
Calm down.

As far as I know, the initial "Region Free" report was corrected later on, and the Wii is in fact Region Locked.
 

Shadow Phoenix

Shady Trees On Fire
It really doesn't suck because PBR is coming to US and UK eventually.
 

captian puncher

hero of punchitizim
.................its gonna suck wii pretty much is gona have crappy take off because they only have 1 nintendo made game coming out which is the ever-so-shity metriod games which they made super gay with this horse **** 1st. person so if you are gonna get a wii wait 6 months because thats when the new super smash is comin out and that is the sole purpose for the wii
besides all that bad *** online stuff which will keep nintendo at the steady pace thru the next gen

Ps. i almost forgot about the new zelda but its also 4 gc so yhea ill actualy put my game cube to use after ......... uh **** whens the last time i played that thing
 

captian puncher

hero of punchitizim
and anyone who trains a legendary pretty much should run out into an open highway and wait till you are hit by lightning no matter how many cars hit you
 
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