Howto play NTSC GameCube games on a European Nintendo Wii

Posted on Sunday, March 04 2007 @ 2:54 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Some clever chaps found a way to play American or Japanese NTSC GameCube games on the European PAL version of the Nintendo Wii.

It's quite simple, it doesn't require a modchip but you have to be quite fast:

Insert a random European GameCube game in the Wii
Choose the Disc channel in the Wii menu
Point at the "Start" button
While you're pressing the start button, eject the disc out of your Wii
Push the A-button.
Take out the European GameCube disc and insert a NTSC game.

You should now be able to play it.

Here's a YouTube video showing how it's done:

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