SYNDiCATE's Wii Region Free Patcher for NTSC to PAL

Unfortunately there's one console among the current gen that still needs fretting about that other kind of region "protection", but the Wii separates PAL and NTSC consumers regionally no more. Well, kind of. SYNDiCATE supposedly has a Wii patcher that plays NTSC titles on PAL Wii units, which is just great for all those PAL-rocking countries that have Wiis, as well as those not yet fit to suffer from Wii shortages because Nintendo hasn't even launched there yet. As always, download and install at your own risk. While we'd be very interested to hear of your results when trying out the patch, we certainly won't be any more than a shoulder to cry on should you brick your unit.

[Via Digg, PAL / NTSC map via Wikipedia]

[James @ Feb 26th 2007 2:49PM]

Does it go the other way around as well?

[acook @ Feb 26th 2007 3:15PM]

Na just NTSC to pal... So i dont get it, does it mean I should be able to burn a NTSC disk after being patched and it will play like normal?

[AceMilo @ Feb 26th 2007 3:28PM]

There are reports that it fubar's your wii after playing a game until you pull out the power for an hour, but there's also a new version out that is supposed to fix it. However, the wiikey supports this, the cyclowiz will support it this week, and the same with the wiinja, so there's no real point to this unless you have a v1 wiinja.

[DoSomeResearch @ Feb 26th 2007 4:26PM]

This story needs an author that has done more research. You can't brick your unit from this. The patch is applied to an ISO image of your Wii game disk, then is burnt to a DVD. You still need a modchip for the burnt copy to work.

[charlie @ Feb 26th 2007 4:36PM]

Pretty pointless. It just patches disc images. You still need a Wii that plays "backups", have a disc image and even then it's not 100% compatible. I can't see anyone being interested in this expect pirates.

[genius24 @ Feb 26th 2007 8:16PM]

or people who want to play imports...

[craig @ May 18th 2007 1:20PM]

Hey I've got a PAL wii and I'm probably gonna move to Japan. So I would kinda like to know more about this patch. Is it true that all I have to do is download the patch and I can play NTSC games (genuine ones I dont care about the cost of copies etc)on my PAL wii. Any help would be great as I've paid about £280.00 for this machine already and I'd rather take it with me than give it to my brother.

Ps does any one know if it'd be cheaper to buy PAL games in Japan whilst I'm there.
Pps I know about the different voltage requirements to power the machine.
Cheers Craig