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Can American Wii play European games?

Eleanor O'Neill Lifehacks

Can American Wii play European games?

You might be able to play the games on a US console if you change the region to e.g. Australia. This page here says about the Australian region: “Games from this area will work in European systems and vice versa”. The instructions for changing the region are here for Wii, and here for Wii U.

Are Wii games region locked?

Currently, all unmodded Wii consoles in the market are region-locked, so only games from the same region can be played on that machine.

Are PAL games slower than NTSC?

PAL isn’t a worse standard than NTSC, exactly — it runs at a slower refresh rate but has a higher resolution, with 576 vertical lines to NTSC’s 480.

Can you play PAL games on NTSC Wii?

PAL versions of games are region-locked to PAL consoles, meaning you will need a PAL Wii to play your PAL games. The only way hypothetically speaking to play PAL games on your NTSC Wii is to jailbreak, and homebrew the functionality, which isn’t difficult, but risky.

Is NTSC region locked for PS4 games?

PAL and NTSC are actually encoding systems for analog televisions. The specifications were kept after digital televisions mainly to determine regions, but since PS4 games are not region locked, you should not have a problem. However, DLC must match the region of the game, and software developers retain the right to region lock their games.

Can a NSTC machine read a PAL disc?

NSTC and PAL are incompatible because of how the technologies work. NSTC being 30fps and 525 scans, and PAL being 25 FPS and 625 scans. So normally, an NSTC machine cannot read a PAL disk, and vice-versa. Here’s a tutorial on how to achieve it. The Nintendo Wii was discontinued despite being so successful.

What is the NTSC or PAL version of GBA?

First, there are no NTSC or PAL versions of GBA, as NTSC and PAL are television broadcasting standards, thus cannot be applied to a handheld console without TV output. There are “J region”, “NA region” and “PAL region” versions, the third one stands for Europe, including Russia, which never officially used PAL.