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joemanc
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_ 		22. March 2008 @ 13:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hi to all wise and knowledge full people
i need a few things confirming
my gfriend bought a( wii pal )i got it chipped from a comp fare with wiikey
please excuse my lack of knowledge
i didnt get any disk set up or otherwise
i have fully updated wii software as of 21 march 2008 and 1.9g wiikkey firmware
i have a pal copy of super mario galaxy working fine if that helps
i have internet connection for my wii aswell
problems are

1 few games are asking for updates and i am not 100% sure on there region is there any way to check the region of the disk

2 even if they are pal games will they still ask me to do an update even though i have the latest firmware , and should i proceed if its pal ?? a few games have asked me ( metroid prime ,donkey kong jet race ,

3 even if it is ntsc is it ok to do the update bearing in mind i have super mario galaxy to re update it

thank you for your time
if i end up bricking her wii she will kick me hard in an unpleasant place and demand i buy a new one instantly
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juniR
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_ 		22. March 2008 @ 13:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There are various guides in this section covering various things including avoiding region bricking. Read those.

1. Wii brick blocker will check the region.
2. Bona Fide PAL games are ok on your system. But you need to learn about out of region problems and bricking by reading up.
3. SMG is finished with - you can't use it to update again if you mess up. Wii updates are one-shot deals.
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joemanc
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_ 		22. March 2008 @ 15:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
will backup wii pal games work even if they ask for an update
and if so should i proceed with the update

p.s thanks for taking the time to reply
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juniR
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_ 		22. March 2008 @ 20:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
As long as they are definitely pal u can take the update.
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joemanc
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_ 		24. March 2008 @ 04:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks mate your a big five pointed thing
just having trouble getting an iso image thats not too big using imgburn on read comes out too big i have dropped the read spped but still nothing it is highly tedious

joe

ps thanks for taking the time to reply
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DigiBear
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_ 		24. March 2008 @ 05:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey juniR....

if a PAL game requires an update on a PAL system and wiibrickblocker has been run on the ISO will the game still work ?!?

Joe has mentioned some games in his first post, but I have found that even with the latest firmware downloaded from the net they still run the update.

If this is blocked... will they still work? I know it won't cause any harm to a unit of the same region, but wondering if its good habit for unsuspecting users to run wiibrickblocker on any ISO that haven't created themselves.
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joemanc
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_ 		24. March 2008 @ 05:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yes that is why i am trying to run imgburn on the games i havent created my self just to burn them on the hard drive and run brick blocker on them to see the region but as stated they are proving a problem i have another thread running describing this problem
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ophil
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_ 		24. March 2008 @ 08:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hey, i was looking for some help with the brickblocker, could someone help me as i am most likly dumber then the chair i am sitting on, okay my prob is, when i d/l it it comes up as a wordpad file, i open it and it comes up with a bunch of gobildy goop, so what do i need to do/ download to make it install.

thanks, king noob of computers
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juniR
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_ 		24. March 2008 @ 08:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by DigiBear:
 Hey juniR....

if a PAL game requires an update on a PAL system and wiibrickblocker has been run on the ISO will the game still work ?!?

Joe has mentioned some games in his first post, but I have found that even with the latest firmware downloaded from the net they still run the update.

If this is blocked... will they still work? I know it won't cause any harm to a unit of the same region, but wondering if its good habit for unsuspecting users to run wiibrickblocker on any ISO that haven't created themselves.
tbh - I dunno m8... I dunno exactly what brickblocker strips out. I have NEVER used it myself LOL - I used the PPF on brawl and that stripped out anything harmful but left the game updates. That's the only import I've messed with cos there's only a couple of others I have bothered with since I got dupe channels with MP3 and they had no updates.

It's important to understand that a game can contain the latest firmware as well as a game specific update. I usually wait for specific info before I try anything I'm unsure of.
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