Japan Gaming Guide

One of the downsides of the Wii is its draconian region protection. By design, you can’t play games from any other region. That’s a major headache for anyone foreign living in Japan because hardly any Wii games offer a choice of languages.

Fortunately Datel’s excellent Freeloader let’s you get round the protection and lets you play games from any region you want – until now that is.

The latest Wii firmware download has again stopped freeloader from working. You can choose not to download the firmware but newly released games may require it, leaving you with a nasty choice as to which games not to be able to play.

This is a fairly petulant move by Nintendo, do importers really do that much harm? Hopefully Datel will be able to issue a patch of their own soon.

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