AnyRegion Changer

[ciper]

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.

I'm sorry to hear of your misfortune but I laughed when I read your post. Im curious - why would you not install the homebrew channel but feel confident to run an app that has a high possibility of bricking your system? Even the Wiki page has a huge warning banner at the top!

Good luck with the JP version of Zelda:TP

[idan2468]

i have wii jap in jap white this i can patch my wii and the lenguge can be english or have something to do this ?

[sean.aaron]

Im curious - why would you not install the homebrew channel but feel confident to run an app that has a high possibility of bricking your system? Even the Wiki page has a huge warning banner at the top!

Good luck with the JP version of Zelda:TP

Well, the docs weren't terribly explicit. I was under the impression that anything short of loading a different version of the system menu on the system was just making a temporary change to the running Operating System and not to the firmware. The main thing putting me off about the Hombrew Channel has been that it is not completely removed by deleting the channel (still leaves log files, etc.), so I was concerned about warranty violations from installing it.

My Wii is nearly a year old now, so that's less of a concern and this application seems rock solid and does what chipping my Gamecube couldn't: let me play NTSC games full resolution and get Mr. Driller Drill Land successfully save game data and load it again, so once I get my game region switched back using the JP TP hack I'll get the HBC installed and it will be like having the Wii I always wanted without taking it apart!

[sean.aaron]

i have wii jap in jap white this i can patch my wii and the lenguge can be english or have something to do this ?

I have a PAL Wii and just using this hack without additional downloads I got system text in Japanese characters in Mr. Driller Drill Land during the screen which asks about formatting the memory card; this wasn't true on my Xeno-chipped PAL Gamecube, so I'm guessing that all languages are in there, but not all accessible depending on what region the Wii is set to.

It cannot hurt to try it, but as noted be sure to run from the HBC and not via other methods lest you cannot change it back; also do not change the Area setting without also loading a matching System Menu (this part I'm not sure about; I don't know if the application comes with alternate firmware versions and don't plan on touching it myself).

If I were you I'd try changing the language setting only and see what that does. That's what makes this application so brilliant is that you can change the game region without changing menu or shop settings.

[k0sm0s]

ok i have a question regarding this warning:

CHANGES MADE TO THE CONSOLE AREA SETTING SHOULD ALWAYS BE ACCOMPANIED BY A SYSTEM MENU CHANGE TO THE SAME REGION!

by "System Menu Change" does it mean I have to install the japanese IOS when I change the "language setting" to japanese (i like reading in japanese)?

[sean.aaron]

ok i have a question regarding this warning:

CHANGES MADE TO THE CONSOLE AREA SETTING SHOULD ALWAYS BE ACCOMPANIED BY A SYSTEM MENU CHANGE TO THE SAME REGION!

by "System Menu Change" does it mean I have to install the japanese IOS when I change the "language setting" to japanese (i like reading in japanese)?

If you change the System Menu, you MUST change the IOS as well or it sounds like you're system will at least be a semi-brick. System Menu is the Wii firmware, so it's more than just changing the language setting, though I expect that would change the language in the Wii Setup menus -- if that's your intent then that's what you need to do.

Having said that, Language appears to be a separate setting from Area; from the docs a change of Area needs to involve loading the matching IOS (System Menu), but the Any_Region Language setting doesn't appear to be linked to that and I think the Language setting affects in-game/channel language from looking at the video, so you could try that to see what happens.

Note that there's a new version 1.1, so be sure to use that.

[tona]

Hi,

A little clarification on that warning:

If you change the AREA (Console Area) setting to a value that does not correspond to your System Menu's region, it will cause a semi brick.

e.g. AREA = JPN, System Menu = 3.3U is a semi brick.

So, if you want to change the AREA setting (Which really only affects the system menu), you should install a System Menu which corresponds to that area at the same time. I don't really like to restrict people in my programs, so I haven't forced this change.

@sean.aaron:
I'm sorry to hear about your disc booting incident. I have to ask, though, why didn't you have the Homebrew Channel installed? :/

I'm going back through and adding more warnings, although I thought the name "Region Changer," the word "Save," the description as a "complete region modification utility," and the fact that it was editing two files on the Wii would be sufficient.

[sean.aaron]

@sean.aaron:
I'm sorry to hear about your disc booting incident. I have to ask, though, why didn't you have the Homebrew Channel installed? :/

I'm going back through and adding more warnings, although I thought the name "Region Changer," the word "Save," the description as a "complete region modification utility," and the fact that it was editing two files on the Wii would be sufficient.

I had been hoping to find a solution that would work via Wii Loader and therefore not involve installing anything in my firmware as my Wii is still under warranty (albeit only for another couple of months) and because I wanted to be able to apply firmware updates worry-free (since there are games that force them upon you which I may not want to miss out on).

With regard to the latter, I think USE ONLY WITH HBC would have sufficed, though I have to say I might not have tried it; given the fact that my alternative to using it was going to be buying a Japanese Gamecube and modding it, I'm happy to put up with a little inconvenience. I'm not upset at all with my predicament since I should have my Japanese Twilight Princess next week and I've been spending more time playing on my Gamecube anyway. The break in my Wii Fitness schedule is unfortunate, however...

[SimmySim]

i successfully installed a 3.2U on my Jap Wii 3.2J. and all region changes works, i even flashed my wiikey to 1.9s USA and all my backup works, but what i did later really odd to get myself shot in the ass.

i went to update to 3.3U just to get the new and forecast channel back. i used duplicate channel remover to remove the old JAP channel and when i use anyregion_changer to downgrade back to 3.2U again... i encountered a error after the CIOS patch.
picture below i am very lost now and i can't downgrade back to 3.2U... i even tried waninkoko's downgrader as well, but also get a error at ret=-1. i really hope i didn't screw up my wii

[tie]

i'm kinda new to this scene, but i have a japanese Wii and i want to change the system language to english can anyone help me?

wraggster said something about in order to use it you need to compile it with libogc cvs. but i have no idea what that is