menyawga

Hey guys, sorry I've been out of the loop for a while.

Here's some details of what I did that I left out before:

Put the wiikey 2 chip in (NO BRICKBLOCK SETTING YET) and set it officially to Korean region by loading an original Korean game. Then I immediately put in a backup of Mario Kart and installed the update. Then I put in a backup of Twilight Princess JPN and ran twilight hack. After successfully installing HBC ver 0.8 I was able to run any ntsc backups through gecko 1.7.

A few weeks later, after much deliberation, I decided to follow the directions posted by a user named Kavid (he's a Chinese guy on a few different forums, just type in "Korea Wii Change USA" on google) to change my region to US 3.2. They included links to the files and slightly altered utilities that were specifically modified for changing Korean wiis to 3.2 U. I followed their instructions EXACTLY, and was able to completely change to NTSC-U, and everything since then has been PERFECT. One word of warning: if you're using Wiikey 2, you have to set it up again by running the update disc. Then after it's been reinstalled for the US Region, make sure you put in a US game to set the correct region again.

I use sony dvd-r (plus a verbatim dvd+r dl for SSBB) for my media.

To play Korean orginal games again after changing regions, I had to install Tona's Patchmii CIOS Installer with Korean Disc Support from wiibrew.org.

As far as I'm concerned, the US region is sooo much freer than the Korean one for most homebrew and backups. If you have questions, please PM me so I'll see it in my email since I don't visit these forums as often anymore.

And of course, use this info at your own risk. I take no responsibility for people bricking their wiis.

Peace,

-Menyawga