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Features of this hack include:
Removing the health warning screen
Region free Wii and Gamecube games
Built in "rescue mode"
Removing background music
It's not released yet, but should be soon. Finally I will be able to play my imported Gamecube games again. Even nicer to be able to boot all imports straight from the Disc Channel, with no need to boot any homebrew.
I expect custom background music can't be too far away either.
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6 comments:
Can you use a PAL GameCube memorycard to save PAL GameCube games with this hack?
Unless I completely misunderstand your question, doesn't the Wii already do this?
I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I have a US Wii. I got it while I was in America because it was so much cheaper, and now I import games for it. However all my old GameCube games are still in PAL, so I guess my question is if an American Wii will take a PAL GC memory card so that I could make use of this hack to play my old GC games. Or you could reverse the question: will a PAL Wii take an American GC memorycard to save American GC games with this hack? Hope you understand what I mean.
I think I am with you.
GC memory cards are region free. They get formatted to the language they are being used in, and the USA and PAL card formats are the same (although PAL and USA saves for the same game are not the same).
I am 99% sure what you want to work will work perfectly. I will look into it in more detail when this hack actually launches if you like.
IIRC some games have issues with a foreign memory card and will format them.
My Gamecube is modded and I've had this problem. The chances of you having an issue are slim though.
Hardware wise there's literally no difference between Pal and NTSC memorycards, it's just how they're formatted (kind of).
If you're JUST playing NTSC games then you're fine, if you're just playing PAL games then you're fine but there are a small number of games whereby the following happens:
Say you have a memory card formatted as NTSC and have a fair number of saves on there. You then pop in a certain Pal game, it'll see the memory card is NTSC and automatically format it to Pal, thus wiping out your games. Not every game does it and if I recall it was largely Japanese games I had a problem with but it's something to be aware of.
A quick google turns up that the problem is usually with Japanese games:
"It's recommended that you keep a separate memory card handy for saved games for Japanese games as there's a chance that a Jap game will format a card with US/UK saved games thus erasing all your hard work!"
But just to be on the safe side I'd pick up a seperate memory card for different region games.
Japanese games are the only games which will require a different Memory Card. I have one Memory Card which I use for all of my PAL and NTSC games.
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