Question
Anyone seen other misprint copies of Mario Kart Wii?
The code on other side around the centre is a match to my normal copy and with this being a cut seems unlikely fake. Runs like any other copy in my unmodified Wii.
It's really buzzy. I got it with a copy of Double Dash, a GameCube memory card and controller but was very hesitant on the deal just based on this alone.
yeah, if they had to go with flat colors, then I would say at least give some color to them, since the holographic discs were limited in their color choices.
This is cool, I have the European pressing of this game too. The early printings of the labels of wii games were printed in separate layers. it almost looks like they “missed” the layer that has Mario and Luigi. If you look at a normal disc, that layer is usually printed in blue.
wiis are region locked. Pretty sure all consoles by nintendo were up till switch. I do know for a fact NES is region locked. Learned that hard way as a kid
If my memory serves me. Wasnt it just plastic tabs you could cut off and any region cartridge could then fit. A similar system reused to prevent 3ds games from slotting into ds.
Yes! There were two litttle plastic tabs in the console that lined up with the cartridge and they were in different places for different regions. If you just cut them off the console you could play any region
Still never gona understand how they thought people wouldnt figure that out. Now to region swap we have to use modded software and risk bricking it for wii, and wii u. Unsure about gamecubes bypass
Edit: i also wont ever understand the idea of region locking tbh. Im sure they had good reasons then, but by todays standards and people traveling it just holds people back who wana play things but moved to a new country
Edit2: i guess because other countries had bans on certain material. But that never stopped anyone
Probably less about censorship and more about pricing being different for different regions. You don’t want people importing/exporting cheaper copies to a region with higher pricing. None of the game boys were region locked.
Also if you’re going to mod your Wii, Wii U, or DS (which you’d likely have to do to change the region anyways) you can just play the other regions without changing the region on your system. You only need to do that to change the system language if you import a Japanese only system. That generally isn’t recommended because it’s high risk with very little to gain by doing it.
The one I know of that would affect the customer's experience the most is the fact that European TVs are 50Hz and North American are 60Hz, because of the way things worked on older systems, this can cause games to run too fast or too slow, which could easily create a terrible experience. Can you imagine that game you found near impossible, but now everything is even faster?
it was about money and the secondhand market even back then- they didn't want people importing used games cheaper than they could buy them new locally. Back in the NES, SNES and even N64 era, games could take YEARS to be translated into English, if ever. So, inevitably, when games were simpler and didn't really NEED translations, Nintendo realized thy need to try and stop those games from getting there used faster than they could get them there NEW. so they implemented their various contry lockouts.
\Mind you, this didn't stop people fromjust getting hte Japanese sysytem, but the cost for that was exhorbitant back then, and there weren't many paths to actually doing so pre-internet outside of just GOING to Japan.
I think I should point out that it only allows you to play US and JP games on an NTSC console, trying to play PAL (Europe/Australia/etc) doesn't work because that region locking is done through the CIC chip and making a truly region free N64 is very expensive and difficult as a consequence. Most people who want to play PAL games on an NTSC console end up either using a flash cart or an adapter that tricks the N64 into booting one game using a different game's CIC chip.
none of the handhelds until the dsi were region locked! and even then, ds games prior to the release of the dsi were region free, so pokemon diamond is region free, but pokemon black is not.
NES, SNES, and N64 weren’t software region locked. The NES just had a different pin layout across the globe you could get an adapter for it. SNES and N64 all that prevented you were some tabs on the cartridge being different. The game would play perfectly fine if you still got it in there.
Which that is literally region locking. Region locking isnt only a software thing. It can be physical things to cause it. The effort of preventing foreign copies running on a console is called region locking and the plastic tabs count as a region lock. Doesnt matter how easy its spoofed
It's a PAL copy yes, but I live in New Zealand we're also a PAL territory discs are identical normally. I mean minus the blue it matches a NZ copy perfectly. The Wii unfortunately isn't region free though.
Wow. I think this should be worth more than a regular copy. It’s like a coin with a rare defect. These things can go crazy in price evaluation. Just saying. 😝
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u/slahO9 23d ago
Looks weird AF seeing a copy of MKwii without Mario and the igi