Does the PAL Nintendo Wii play NTSC games?
no it doesnt, if you buy your wii in usa can only play ntsc and
vise versa.
Answer 2 - Actually, PAL users do NOT have trouble with PAL OR
NTSC because they can handle both types of video formats. NTSC (USA
and Canada) can sometimes get away with it at a 3x speed. (This
obviously requires a wiikey chip and a speed setup)
Try looking at
http://intendo.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/trick-you-pal-wii-to-play-ntsc-gnc-games/
Answer 3: It sure can. I have a NTSC wii and I play PAL games on
it. You need to look up bannerbomb (if they don't censer that out)
and then truchabug (make sure you read/watch a tutorial on this
one), then cIOS and then NeoGamma or USBLoaderGX. BTW I am telling
you to mod your wii. It sounds like a lot, but it'll only take
about 10 mins. I don't know of any other way to do this right out
of the box. and this process is FREE!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't recommend
you mess with it to much. Crashed mine, but I was using way more
advanced stuff then what I am telling you to do.
Answer 4: Mine does. But then, like the author of Answer 3, I
have also software-modified my Wii. Using software that has NOT
been authorised by Nintendo (so-called 'homebrew' software) you can
do all sorts of lovely things to your Wii, such as enable the DVD
drive to play movies; change the region settings of your wii,
stream avi / divx movies from your home PC to your TV using the Wii
as a media center, backup your games to your PC, play games from an
external HARD drive attached to your Wii (I seldom use disks these
days) and use open source software. HOWEVER it takes a bit of
research and know-how to figure each of these programs out. You
need to download the correct software and get it onto a SD 'camera'
memory card to initially 'break into' the Wii and get your programs
to run. This afternoon I used 'any region changer' on my Wii. I can
now play the Wii Virtual Console game "Mario Golf 64' on my wii at
full speed (60Hz), despite the fact that the game has not being
sold here in the UK. I also can play my NTSC imported gamecube
games that have been stuck in my loft for a couple of years (my
gamecube was an import from the USA) and my daughter enjoyed a bit
of 'animal crossing' and 'luigi's mansion'. THE BIG BUT is that
Nintendo do not want you running all sorts of non-licenced software
on your Wii, so if DO start down this route, you had better
disconnect your Wii from the Wiiconnect24 service, and also don't
update the firmware on your Wii any more either! You wouldn't want
any malicious attack from Nintendo over the internet turning your
lovely Wii into am overpriced paperweight.
answer 5
i agree with everything in the other answers except for unplug
your internet from the wii if you also look up priiloader you can
hack the wii to block all of nintendos updates through the net and
by game disc!!. There are also lots of ways to download apps and
files directly to your wii using homebrew browser and nus
downloader. But you need to make sure you read the install guiudes
before doing anything to the wii as ALL relevant hacks need to be
enabled.