AnyRegion Changer

[sean.aaron]

Okay, it worked great, Mr. Driller Drill Land comes up as if on a Japanese Wii with normal language font and all; in-game initial screen which prompts for card formatting and then does it; completed 1st level on Drill World and got the stamp; exited and went in and loaded it up again successfully.

Brilliant!

Problem is I didn't realise this change lasts after powering off the system and I loaded the hack using Twilight Princess -- I don't have the Hombrew Channel installed on my system and now I cannot load my PAL Twilight Princess anymore.

So any way to get my system back without buying a Japanese version of Twilight Princess to run the hack again?

[h2923j42n2]

Okay, it worked great, Mr. Driller Drill Land comes up as if on a Japanese Wii with normal language font and all; in-game initial screen which prompts for card formatting and then does it; completed 1st level on Drill World and got the stamp; exited and went in and loaded it up again successfully.

Brilliant!

Problem is I didn't realise this change lasts after powering off the system and I loaded the hack using Twilight Princess -- I don't have the Hombrew Channel installed on my system and now I cannot load my PAL Twilight Princess anymore.

So any way to get my system back without buying a Japanese version of Twilight Princess to run the hack again?

sean.aaron, is your Wii modified with a drive chip. If so, you can use the Japanese disc image of the Homebrew Channel to install it onto your system. This does not require Twilight Princess in any way. At that point, you can run AnyRegion Changer again, and change the settings back to what they should be.

If it is not modified with a drive chip, you will probably need to get a Japanese version of Twilight Princess to change it back. I am not certain on this at all, but maybe the Datel Wii Freeloader could also work for you.

[sean.aaron]

No drive chip and I'm running 3.3 firmware so the Wii Freeloader won't cut it. Looks like I'm gonna have two versions of TP -- temporarily at least!

Update:

I found an eBay shop based in Hong Kong that has a 2nd-hand copy of TP from Japan for only £23 incl. P+P, so hopefully this will all be behind me soon. My SD is all ready with HBC boot file and Japanese TP Hack save ready to be copied over.

Good thing is I'll be able to eBay both copies of TP and my chipped Gamecube which will more than offset the irritation of this lesson.

I would say that it needs to be stated more explicitly in the documentation with this that ANY change being made in this application is to system firmware and cannot be backed out except by using the application. I was under the mistaken impression that any change short of loading different firmware regions was only to the running system and would be reset with a simple poweroff.

Having said that I think this is a superior solution for playing multi-region games; the fact it's good for even traditionally problematic imports like Mr. Driller Drill Land is an outstanding result given that I was going to buy a Japanese Gamecube to mod originally. You just need to be willing to do the HBC install; if you're not avoid this hack and use Menu Loader or GeckoOS instead.

[____anders____]

i'm with gecko os cus i only have one "imported" game.. SSBB
but still, this is very good news for the scene

[sean.aaron]

but still, this is very good news for the scene

Totally, it's the next best thing to having a native Wii for that region.

[skel28]

I've copied the Dol file into a folder in my Apps folder on my SD card.
My Homebrew channel doesn't show it up.
Do I need to do anything different?
Can anyone offer any help please?
Many thanks
J

[sean.aaron]

Do you have the supporting data and libogc_patches directories into the subfolder of apps? Have you renamed the file boot.dol?

I don't know if any of these are necessary, but I would try those as that's how I had it set up in the root of my SD card when I ran the Twilight Hack and it launched no problem.

[skel28]

I didn't rename it boot.dol (doh) and yes I have the other files.
WIll do that now and report back.
Thanks very much for you help

[skel28]

Yup, that's sorted it thank you.
One thing that might have helped you is if you knew anyone with a chipped Wii you could have swapped drives to boot your ZTP disc mate.
Cheers

[sean.aaron]

Yeah, a lot of things could have helped, but I've got a Japanese Zelda coming, so hopefully all will be well soon and I'll have the HBC installed and enjoying some multi-region GC goodness on my Wii.

In the meantime being only able to play Mr. Driller on it isn't so bad ;-)!