The Wii? Region-locked? Not entirely. If you can keep a steady hand and have some NTSC Cube discs handy, you can get them running on your PAL Wii with no nasty-ass modifications or Freeloader necessary:

Pop a PAL GameCube disc into the Wii, and head to the 'Disc Channel'. A GameCube logo should be up on the screen. Point the Wii Remote's cursor over the 'Start' option so it's highlighted, and while keeping your hand steady, press the eject button on the Wii. For about one second, the 'Start' option will remain active. In this window of time, hit the A button on the Wii Remote and then swap out your ejected PAL GCN disc with an NTSC (Japanese or USA) disc, which the Wii will accept into the drive.

PALGN, where the info is posted, say it works 100% for GameCube games, but we'll just keep this one a rumour until the unwashed masses can verify it. Sounds promising, though. Oh, except it doesn't work for Wii discs. But you probably guessed that anyway.

Time to hit up those American GameCube fire sales while there's still something left...Luke Plunkett

Wii's GameCube region lock busted [PALGN]

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